East Indian
Chorchori (Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley)
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Chorchori (Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the mustard oil in a wide, heavy pan and temper with the panch phoron until it crackles and smells fragrant.
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Add the potato and pumpkin first, since they take longest, and fry for 5 minutes.
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Add the eggplant, ridge gourd, turmeric, salt, and slit green chilies, and stir everything together.
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Cover and cook on low heat, stirring occasionally, until all the vegetables are soft and lightly mashed together, about 20 minutes, without adding much water so it stays thick and dry.
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Serve warm alongside dal and rice, using whatever vegetables are in the kitchen that week.
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Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chorchori (Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Chorchori (Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 180 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 20 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 400 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chorchori (Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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