Steamed Prawns (Bhapa Chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce
Steamed Prawns (Bhapa Chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, steamed prawns (bhapa chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Bhapa Chingri or Steamed Prawns in Mustard Sauce is a super easy recipe. With no such effort this dish can be prepared within your comfort zone. Bhapa Chingri pairs well with steamed rice. Bhapa which means steaming in Bengali & Chingri means prawn.

Steamed Prawns (Bhapa Chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Steamed Prawns (Bhapa Chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have steamed prawns (bhapa chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Steamed Prawns (Bhapa Chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce:
  1. Take 40 gms Black & Yellow Mustard Seeds- both mixed together & soaked overnight in the lukewarm water
  2. Make ready 6/7 pieces Green Chillies
  3. Prepare 50 gms Freshly grated Coconut
  4. Get 90 gms Plain Yoghurt
  5. Make ready 3 tsp Salt,
  6. Get 1.5 tsp Turmeric Powder
  7. Prepare 2.5 tsp Sugar
  8. Take 50 gms Mustard Oil
  9. Take 500 gms Prawns (Shelled & Deveined)

You can steam the prawns in a stainless steel utensil inside boiling water. Prawns are not considered as a fish but it has its own glory when it comes on our plate.so many different dishes can be made with prawns. But most of the people's favourite preparation with prawn is steamed prawns/ Bhapa Chingri in Mustard And Poppy Seeds sauce served with hot steamed rice and green chillies. Clean and devein the prawns properly.

Steps to make Steamed Prawns (Bhapa Chingri) in the mustard-coconut sauce:
  1. Firstly, grind the soaked Mustard Seeds, Salt & Green Chillies scrape down the sides of the mixer-grinder & add a little water to it- if at all needed
  2. Blend it into a fine & smooth paste- it should feel absolutely smooth when, rubbed in between the fingers
  3. Now, in the same mixture- Blend in, the Coconut Sugar & Turmeric Powder (scrape well the sides of your mixer-grinder bowl again)
  4. Transfer this fine & Smooth paste/ mixture entirely into a microwaveable bowl then, add into it the measured plain yoghurt
  5. Blend & Mix it well with a spoon and now, is the time to add in the Prawns to it…
  6. Again, with the help of the spoon mix everything well enough- coating the very mixtures entirely to the body of the prawns
  7. Lastly, add on the measured Mustard Oil- Again, mix it very gently with the spoon slit 2/3 more (extra) green chillies to put it on it's top before covering it
  8. Then, cover the bowl with a plastic cling film wrap or in case, your bowl has it's own lid to cover it up- In my case, I’ve used my microwaveable casserole dish lid only☝🏻(refer the pics)
  9. Time to microwave it for about 10 mins. in the steam mode & then, check it out once…if done perfect if not then, again put into the same mode for another 2/3 mins. This is due to each & every microwave temperature settings & rest other mechanisms, slightly differ from one another
  10. So…now ?! What are you waiting for… It’s just ready to be in your platters & simply grab’em…

But most of the people's favourite preparation with prawn is steamed prawns/ Bhapa Chingri in Mustard And Poppy Seeds sauce served with hot steamed rice and green chillies. Clean and devein the prawns properly. Now make a very smooth paste of the coconut , mustard and a small green chili by slowly adding water. Ma was very careful about adding the water because she wanted the paste to be really thick. Now mix salt, turmeric powder and mustard oil into the paste and mix it with the prawns.

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