Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bengali Fish curry recipe or Macher Kalia or Fish Kalia is a Bengali delicacy It mainly cooks with Katla/Rahu fish. The speciality of this recipe is its gravy with yoghurt and lots of aromatic spices. Maacher kalia or maacher jhol is a simple Bengali fish curry that is a favorite in many Indian families.
Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry) using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry):
- Take 5-6 pieces rohu fish (peeled and de scaled)
- Prepare 2 potatoes (cut in wedges)
- Make ready 1 onion (cut in slices)
- Get 3 green chilies
- Prepare 1 tbsp Turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbspCumin powder
- Get 1 tbsp Ginger paste
- Prepare Salt
- Get 4-5 tbsp Mustard oil
- Make ready 1 bay leaf(optional)
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Steps to make Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry):
- Mix the raw fishes with salt and turmeric
- Fry the fish in hot mustard oil, both sides
- Keep the fishes aside once fried, add some more oil in pan and add potatoes to fry
- After the potatoes are done, pour some more oil and fry the onion with chillies
- Add bay leaf, ginger paste, turmeric and cumin powder and stir well and salt to taste
- Now pour in a cup of warm water on the mixture and add on the fried potatoes and cover and simmer it
- Once the mixture comes to boil add the fried fish
- Serve it with steamed rice
As a die-hard Bengali with roots in both Bengals I remember the best curry made out of fresh Katla (Buffalo)/ Rui (Rehu or Carp) and Bhetki. Macher Jhol means Fish (macher) in curry/gravy (jhol). It has few ingredients and they play a crucial role. The strong flavor of mustard and But then I mastered this curry and believe me, it is so effing good. Here's how I prepared the Bengali Mustard Fish with little.
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