Badhakopir Ghonto

About this Recipe...

Badhakopir Ghonto is a very simple and regular dish in a bengali household. Ghonto means dry fried vegetable curry. My today's recipe is a Jain style curry (without onion, garlic) but you can cook it in different variation. There are several kinds of ghonto in bengali cooking like Muri ghonto, lau ghonto. My mom used to make it with fried fish head or with shrimp.
I love to serve this curry with rice and Daal in lunch or with roti in dinner. Sometime this curry is served with khichuri also. I used to have this Ghonto at home in winter, when fresh cabbages are available in the market. But here in USA, cabbage is available round the year and whenever I crave for this simple dish can easily make it and enjoy it at home.

Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp Oil
• 1 Medium size potato cut into cubes
• 1 tsp Paanch foran
• 1 Piece Dried red chili
• 1 Piece Bay leaf
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp Ginger paste
• 1 tsp Green chilli paste
• 1 tomato chopped
• 1 tsp Cumin powder
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/4 tsp Asafoetida
• 2 Cups Shredded cabbage
• 3 Tbsp Green peas
• Salt as per taste
• Garam masala powder

Directions

1. First of all, heat up oil in a pan and lightly fry the potato cubes and keep it aside.
2. Now in the same pan, add some more oil if required and add paanch foran, bay leaf, dried red chili and asafoetida for tempering and sauté it for 30 seconds.
3. Now add ginger-green chili paste and the other dry spices and fry it until oil separates from spices. Add chopped tomato and mix it well with the spices and fry it till it becomes soft.
4. Now add the shredded cabbage and mix everything well and cover the lid and cook it.
5. After 10 minutes open the lid, add the fried potato, peas and salt as per your taste, mix everything, cover the lid and cook it in low flame. Check the curry in between and stir it.
6. After sometime open the lid of the pan, check everything has cooked or not, if everything gets well cooked then add garam masala powder, give a final stir and your cabbage curry with potato and peas is ready to serve.