Kadali Bhanda O Chingudi Tarkari Recipe (Odia Style Banana Blossom & Prawn Curry)

Step 1: Preparing Banana BlossomTo begin making for garnishing, Take a kitchen towel and spread it on your kitchen platform

Step 2: Rub both of your palms with mustard oil before preparing this banana blossom

Step 3: Take a bowl aside with water and squeeze a lemon into it

Step 4: Now peel and discard the purple covers of the blossom, then gently remove the outer skin of each of the florets and take out the thin stem from the floret

Step 5: The skin and the stems are not consumed, hence thrown away

Step 6: Once done, soak all the florets in cold water with lemon juice for half an hour, so as to prevent them from turning dark and bitter

Step 7: Now pressure cook these banana blossom with salt and turmeric till cooked and then discard the water

Step 8: Now banana blossom  is ready for cooking

Step 9: For Kadali Bhanda O Chingudi TarkariClean and devein the prawns

Step 10: Apply salt and turmeric powder to the prawns and keep aside for 10 minutes

Step 11: Peel and cube the potato and finely slice the onion

Step 12: Heat oil in a pan

Step 13: shallow fry the cubed potatoes till nicely golden from all sides

Step 14: Take out and keep aside

Step 15: In the same pan, shallow fry the prawns over high heat for 2 mins on both sides, take out and keep aside

Step 16: Heat more oil in the pan , Now add whole garam masala (cinnamon sticks, green cardamom, cloves), bay leaf, cumin seeds, dry red chilies to the oil

Step 17: Cook on medium heat till the masala releases nice flavor

Step 18: Then add the sliced onion

Step 19: Cook over medium heat till the onion changes color and almost caramelises

Step 20: Add ginger garlic paste and cook till the raw smell disappears

Step 21: Make a paste of  cumin powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and 2-3 tablespoon of water, mix well and add to the ginger garlic paste and cook for 2-3 minutes

Step 22: Add boiled and mashed banana blossom, and salt along with fried potato and mix well

Step 23: Cover and cook till potatoes are done

Step 24: Add sugar and check the seasoning

Step 25: Add fried prawns and garam masala powder, mix well

Step 26: Switch off, cover and let rest for sometime

Step 27: By this time, all the water should have dried up

Step 28: Serve hot

Step 29: Kadali Bhanda O Chingudi Tarkari Recipe (Odia Style Banana Blossom & Prawn Curry) can be served along with Steamed rice, Raw Mango Dal Fry Recipe, Bharwa Karela Recipe, or Kakharu Phula Bhaja Recipe, and chopped mangoes on side