DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Chal kumro narkel
Priyanka’s selected Chal Kumro Narkel follows her Narkel Kumri recipe, a dryish ash-gourd and grated-coconut side dish with bay leaf, sugar and a ghee finish.
About Chal kumro narkel
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Priyanka’s Narkel Kumri is the selected Chal Kumro Narkel preparation: ash gourd cooked with grated coconut and bay leaf. She describes it as a dryish Bengali side dish served with rice.
The ash gourd is peeled, its fleshy centre and seeds removed, and the remainder coarsely grated. Fresh coconut is grated separately.
The selected sunflower oil heats in a nonstick pan with bay leaf. The same grated ash gourd and coconut are added with salt and mixed together.
A lid covers the pan for low-to-medium cooking. Once the vegetables’ released moisture reduces, the mixture is stirred again, salt checked and sugar added.
The selected optional ghee drizzle finishes the preparation. Rice is served alongside the slightly sweet, coconut-flavoured side dish.
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