Shorshe Chingri Bhapa ~ Steamed Prawns in Mustard Sauce
What You Need
Prawns ~ 12-14 large sized ones. I used fresh ones, you can use frozen too For the Paste Mutard Seeds ~ 3 tbsp Posto or Poppy Seeds ~ 3 tsp Green Chilli ~ 3 Salt ~ a pinch Soak in warm water for 30 minutes and then grind to a paste The Mustard-Poppy Seeds Paste ~ use almost 3/4th of the paste, makes little less than 1/2 cup. If the paste is too pungent for you, you can sieve the paste and use the more liquid mustardy water mixed with a little of the thick paste. Narkel or Grated Coconut ~ 1/2 cup fresh or frozen. You can use more if you want Yogurt ~ 1/4 cup thick beaten yogurt. Use 1/2 cup of yogurt for more gravy-ish d ish. Sugar -- 1/4 tsp for a light sweet edge
Turmeric Powder -- 1/2 tsp
Sorsher tel or Mustard oil ~ 2 tbsp Green Chilies ~ 8-10 Salt -- to taste How I Did It Wash and shell the prawn and devein them as explained here in an earlier post on Prawn Malaikar Mix the prawns with salt and turmeric and keep aside for half an hour Make a smooth paste with mustard seeds, poppy seeds, 3 green chillies, a little salt and water. In a container which you can steam or which you can put in the pressure cooker, mix the prawns with mustard paste, yogurt and salt according to taste. I also ad d just a pinch of sugar. Slit 4/5 green chillies and add to above Add 2tbsp of Mustard Oil to this, drizzle liberally on top that is Add some fresh grated coconut to this. If using frozen grated coconut defrost an d then use. Now put water in the pressure cooker bottom and put in this container. I have a Futura Pressure Cooker and I steamed for 1 minute. In this pressure coo ker, after the full pressure is built the time has to measured (no whistles), so I kept for 1 minute after the build up of full steam. In a whistling pressure c ooker, you have to allow one whistle I guess Take it out and serve with hot white rice. For an extra kick drizzle little must ard oil before serving Note on making Mustard Paste: When I didn t have a wet grinder to make my mustard paste I used to dry grind the seeds in my coffee grinder and then mix the dry po wder with a little vinegar, salt, and green chillies and keep for an hour or so. The wet grinder serves the purpose much better and makes a nice smooth paste wi th green chillies, and salt