Bandhakopir Ghonto Recipe (Bengali Style Cabbage Fry)

Name: Bandhakopir Ghonto Recipe (Bengali Style Cabbage Fry)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Bengali Recipes
Ingredients: 1 null Cabbage (Patta Gobi/ Muttaikose) shredded; 1 null Potato (Aloo) cubed; 1/4 cup Green peas (Matar) shelled; 1 null Tomato finely chopped; 1 null Green Chillies cut lengthwise; 1/2 inch Ginger grated; 2 teaspoons Mustard oil to fry potato; 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder; 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi); 1/2 teaspoon Coriander Powder (Dhania); 1/4 teaspoon Garam masala powder; 1/2 teaspoon Sugar; null Salt to taste; 2 teaspoons Mustard oil; 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera); 1 null Bay leaf (tej patta); 1 null Dry Red Chilli halved

Uma Raghuraman

January 2, 2022

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Bandhakopir Ghonto Recipe (Bengali Style Cabbage Fry)

Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 20 M|Total: 30 M

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Lunch

Cuisine:Bengali Recipes

Bandhakopir Ghonto is a simple yet flavourful stir fry dish from the Bengali Cuisine. Cabbage is a power house of so many nutrients. It is rich in Vitamin E that gives a glowing skin and healthy hair when consumed regularly. It is also high in Vitamin K that helps in improved brain function and protects one from nerve damage. It is anti inflammatory and helps build a strong immune system to fight illness. So, it is most ideal to include this humble vegetable in our daily diet. You can make this stir fry within minutes and it is a great accompaniment to rice or rotis.

Serve Bandhakopir Ghonto along with Bengali Luchi and Tomato Onion Cucumber Raita for a weekday lunch or dinner.

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Serve Bandhakopir Ghonto along with Bengali Luchi and Tomato Onion Cucumber Raita for a weekday lunch or dinner.

If you like this recipe, you can also try other Bengali recipes such as

Ingredients

For tempering

1 Cabbage (Patta Gobi/ Muttaikose), shredded

1 Potato (Aloo), cubed

1/4 cup Green peas (Matar), shelled

1 Tomato, finely chopped

1 Green Chillies, cut lengthwise

1/2 inch Ginger, grated

2 teaspoons Mustard oil, to fry potato

1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder

1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)

1/2 teaspoon Coriander Powder (Dhania)

1/4 teaspoon Garam masala powder

1/2 teaspoon Sugar

Salt, to taste

2 teaspoons Mustard oil

1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)

1 Bay leaf (tej patta)

1 Dry Red Chilli, halved

Instructions for Bandhakopir Ghonto Recipe (Bengali Style Cabbage Fry)

To begin making the Bandhakopir Ghonto Recipe, heat a kadai/wok with mustard oil and when it starts to smoke add the potatoes, salt (to taste) and pinch of turmeric.

Fry over medium flame till the potatoes are roasted well and transfer them to another container and set it aside.

In the same wok add the shredded cabbage, remaining turmeric, salt (to taste) and 1/4 cup of water.

Cover and cook the cabbage over low flame for 5 minutes.

Open the lid and cook the cabbage over medium flame, till the excess water is absorbed .

Transfer the cabbage into the container with potatoes and put the kadai back on low flame.

Add the mustard oil for tempering in the kadai and temper with ingredients given under 'to temper'.

Once tempered add the green chillies, ginger and the tomatoes.

Add the chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, salt and cook the tomatoes, by stirring continuously till they become mushy .

Now add the cooked cabbage and potatoes and mix well over low/medium heat for 2 minutes and switch off. Your delicious Bandhakopir Ghonto is ready.

Serve Bandhakopir Ghonto along with Bengali Luchi and Tomato Onion Cucumber Raita for a weekday lunch or dinner.