Chal potol recipe /Chal padwal/pointed gourds cooked with Gobindobhog rice
Chal potol is a popular and traditional Bengali dish without the use of garlic and onion made with potol or pointed gourd or parwal with fragrant short-grained rice like Gobindobhog. The potol or pointed gourds pieces are fried and then simmered in fragrant Gobindobhog rice with tomatoes, and ginger and sometimes added with potatoes finished in a warm, spicy, cardamom, cinnamon-flavored dish and this is How to Make Chal Potol.
Here I have taken 7 pointed gourds and 1 potato cut in a big dice shape. And for the rice, I have taken fresh gobindobhog. The other recipes of potol are potol posto, dal potol, alu potol posto and alu potol diye macher jhol.
How to make Gobindobhog Chal diye potol/Pointed gourd with Govindobhog rice
Fried potols/pointed gourds cooked with some fragrant Govindobhog rice with aromatic whole spices; this is How to make Gobindobhog Chal diye potol/Pointed gourd with Govindobhog rice.
Author: Abhijit Mukhopadhyay |
Course: main |
Cuisine: Bengali, Indian |
Level of cooking: medium |
Preparation time: 10 minutes |
Cooking time:45 minutes |
Total time: 45 minutes |
Servings: 4 |
Ingredients
Pointed gourds-7
Potato-1
Soaked Gobindobhog rice-50gm
Tomato -1 (chopped)
Bay leaves-2
Cardamom-2
Cashews-5
Resins-10
Cinnamon -1/2 inch stick
Pepper corn-10
Turmeric powder-1 tbsp
Ginger-1 inch
Sugar=1/2 tbsp
Oil-2 tbsp
Ghee-1 tbsp
Salt to taste
How to make Gobindobhog Chal diye potol
Cut the potatoes and pointed gourds in a big dice shape
Take a wok, heat oil, and add the potato and pointed gourd pieces to fry in high flame
Add turmeric powder and sauté them for 3-4 minutes in high-medium flame
Take them out from the Kadai
Add 1 tbsp ghee to the same Kadai; then add bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon, and peppercorns, and let them sizzle
Then add the chopped tomato, and stir it in high flame
Now add the cashews and resins and stir it for a minute.
Then add turmeric, red chili, cumin, and coriander powder and stir them continuously till the raw smell of the spices goes off.
Now add the fried pointed gourd and potatoes and mix them nicely with the rest of the spices, it will take two minutes on low flame.
Add soaked gobindobhog rice and again mix them nicely.
Add 2 cups of water.
Then add sugar and mix it.
Now cover the lid and allow them to cook for 12-15 minutes on low flame. In between check them once or twice by removing the cover.
Open the lid after 15 minutes and check the consistency of the rice.
Transfer them to a serving plate and serve hot.
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