Daab Chingri

To Serve: 2

Ingredients:

Tender green coconut (Daab) : 1
Shrimps : 250g
Onions : 2 medium
Coconut : 1/2
Panch phoron : A pinch
Turmeric powder : A pinch
Green chilly : 1 or 2 as per taste
Ginger garlic paste : 1 tsp
Oil : 1 tsp
Salt : As per taste
Lemon : 1/4th
Wholewheat flour dough as required

Method:

1. Clean and de vein the shrimps.
2. Add luke warm water along with lime juice and  salt to the shrimps and keep the shrimps soaked in it for a while.
3. Take out the water from the tender coconut and keep aside. Cut the top of the tender coconut to make a round opening and scrape out the soft coconut flesh from inside.
4. Chop the onions and the green chillies.
5. Scrape the white portion of the coconut.
6. Heat the oil in a pan and add the panch phoron to it. Switch of the gas when it starts crackling.
7. Take out the shrimps from the water into a bowl. Add the chopped onions, chillies, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, scraped coconut, the soft coconut flesh, panch phoron to the shrimps. Mix all the ingredients well.
8. Stuff the green coconut with this mixture and seal the top using the wheat flour dough.
9. Place it in the microwave and cook at high for about 50 minutes.
10. Open the seal just before serving.

Note : Panch phoron is a bengali spice mix use to season dishes. It is a blend of five spices namely Cumin seeds (jeera), Fennel seeds (saunf), Nigella seeds (kalonji), Fenugreek seeds (methi) and mustard seeds in equal quantities.