Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chapor ghonto. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chapor Ghonto is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chapor Ghonto is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chapor ghonto using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chapor Ghonto:

1. Make ready 1 & 1/2 cup chana daal / bengal gram
2. Prepare 1 cup potato
3. Make ready 1 cup Pumpkin
4. Take 1/2 cup Brinjal
5. Prepare 1 cup Ridge Gourd
6. Prepare 1/2 cup Taro root
7. Make ready 1 cup Dried Yellow Peas
8. Take 1 tbsp Ginger
9. Make ready 1 tbsp Mustard seeds
10. Prepare 1 tbsp Poppy seeds
11. Make ready 2-3 tbsp Fresh grated coconut (optional)
12. Take 2 Bay leaves
13. Prepare 2 Dry red chillies
14. Make ready 1 tsp Panch Phoran Masala
15. Prepare 2 Green Chillies
16. Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric powder
17. Get 1 tsp Salt
18. Get 1/2 tsp Sugar
19. Take 1 tbsp Mustard oil

Instructions to make Chapor Ghonto:

1. Soak the lentils for at least 3 hrs. Wash well and drain.
2. Make a paste with a little turmeric powder, green chilies, ginger and a pinch of salt. Add as little water as possible while grinding.
3. Heat mustard oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
4. Place the lentil paste on the pan by pressing it with fingers and make sure they do not have any definite shape. Shallow fry the rest of the lentil paste and keep aside. These are the 'Chapor'.
5. Make a paste of poppy seed and black mustard seeds and a green chilli.
6. Cut the vegetables in cubed.
7. Heat mustard oil in a deep pan, when the oil is hot add the eggplant pieces and fry till brown, keep aside.
8. In the same pan add more oil if needed, when the oil is hot add panch phoran masala or bengali five spice mix, dry red chilies, bay leaves.
9. As the spices release nice aroma add the potato, taro root (also add pointed gourd if using) with little salt and turmeric powder, cover and cook. After 10 minutes, add other vegetables and rest of the grated ginger cover and cook it till the vegetables are done.
10. Once the vegetables are soft, add mustard-poppy seed paste mix well. Break the chapor or the lentil patties and add. Add salt and sugar to taste.
11. Garnish with grated coconut and serve hot.
12. Serve this with steamed rice or roti.

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