East Indian
Chorchori (Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley)
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
- 1 potato, cubed
- 1/2 cup eggplant, cubed
- 1/2 cup pumpkin, cubed
- 1/2 cup ridge gourd, cubed
- 2 green chilies, slit
- 3 tbsp mustard oil
- 1 tsp panch phoron (five-spice blend)
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the mustard oil in a wide, heavy pan and temper with the panch phoron until it crackles and smells fragrant.
- Add the potato and pumpkin first, since they take longest, and fry for 5 minutes.
- Add the eggplant, ridge gourd, turmeric, salt, and slit green chilies, and stir everything together.
- 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.
- Serve warm alongside dal and rice, using whatever vegetables are in the kitchen that week.
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 | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on potato, eggplant, and pumpkin.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from East India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.