Chorchori is a famous Bengali dish from West Bengal, and is a dry, mixed vegetable preparation, often referred to as a "fridge-cleaning" recipe in a Bengali household. In this, a variety of vegetables, such as potatoes, brinjal, cauliflower, pumpkin, drumstick, etc. are mixed together and cooked on low flame with little or no water. It is served as a side dish with rice, roti or paratha and is delicious and nutritious.
It is a dry vegetable cooked in little oil, sometimes with very little amount of water also. It is also called a "fridge-cleaning" dish because it can be made using small pieces of leftover vegetables.
No one can make better chachhari than Bengalis. Bengalis can cook chachhari with anything. From fish, meat to potatoes, onions, brinjals, everything can be made into chachhari. There is no comparison between hot rice and biulir dal and Aloo bati chorchori.
Cauliflower, gourd, fish, meat can all be included in a charchari. Birbhum, Bankura, Medinipur, Burdwan - each place cooks charchari in a different way. Various types of vegetables are cut into square pieces.
Chorchori is prepared in different ways in every region of Bengal. And every chorchori tastes amazing. This chachhari will also be very good to eat with hot rice. Check out how to make it.
Ingredients
- 1 potato
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 medium sized eggplant
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 teaspoons mustard oil
- 2 green chillies
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/2 teaspoon whole white cumin seeds
- Salt and sugar to taste
Cooking instructions
- First, peel the potatoes, wash them in water, and cut them into small pieces. Put salt and turmeric on it.
- Heat the oil in a pan and then add the sugar and chilies to the oil.
- Then add the potatoes. Now add white cumin seeds. Lightly fry it with chopped onion.
- Cut the eggplant into thin, long strips. Stir for two to three minutes.
- Add salt, turmeric, cumin powder, coriander powder to the potatoes, stir a little and cover with water.
- Once it is boiled, drain the water and the aloo chachhari is ready. It is delicious to eat with rice, muri or roti.
