Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bengali fish curry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Maacher means "fish" and kalia or jhol means "in curry or gravy." The most commonly used fish to prepare this dish is a type of freshwater carp or rui maach. If you do not have access to rui maach, you also can use salmon, pomfret, sea bass, red snapper, tilapia, or catfish. In India, the best parts of a fish are often reserved as a fillet and served grilled, broiled, or cooked alongside a fish stew or curry containing the less attractive portions of fish.
Bengali Fish Curry is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Bengali Fish Curry is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bengali fish curry using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bengali Fish Curry:
- Get 6 Fish steaks
- Get 3/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 3 Tomatoes - medium
- Get 4 Garlic cloves
- Get 5 Green chilies
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp Powdered Mustard seeds
- Get 2 cups Water
- Get 5 tbsp Mustard oil
- Take 1 1/2 tsp Nigella seeds or kalonji
- Take Coriander leaves - chopped, for garnish
I love having fish curries and one of the flavours that I enjoy most are in a Bengali Fish Curry. I searched for various Bengali Fish Curry recipes online, and got inspired by @bongeats with their Macher Kalia recipe. So I cooked my own version, tweaked the recipe and came up with this. Bengali Fish Curry - Macher kalia Shyamali Sinha Machher Kalia or Bengali Fish curry recipe or FisKalia recipe is a Bengali delicacy.
Step by Step to make Bengali Fish Curry:
- Marinate the fish steaks with little turmeric powder and salt. Keep aside.
- Powder yellow mustard seeds to yield the required amount for curry as per recipe.
- Blend tomatoes, garlic, 3 green chilies, powdered mustard, salt and half cup of water to a smooth paste. Keep aside.
- Heat mustard oil in a pan until smoking hot. Remove from heat for 30sec and then keep back
- Add nigella seeds and let it sizzle for about 10 sec. Add the tomato-mustard-chilli paste.
- Cook until the excess water is evaporated and oil is released. This would take about 10 mins.
- Reduce heat and cook for anouther couple of minutes until it darkens a little
- Add one and half cups of water, mix well and bring to a boil. Simmer for about ten minutes.
- Pan fry the marinated fish steaks in mustard oil until golden brown.
- Add the fish to the mustard sauce and cook for a couple of minutes more.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with steamed rice.
It mainly cooks with Rahu/Rui fish. Here in Melbourne, we also prepare this dish with freshwater fish like Trout. It also tastes delicious with fish like Mullet, Milkfish, Salmon. This Bengali style fish curry is the perfect accompaniment to steamed rice and a quick nap is customary post it! Rohu, a delicious sweet water fish is cooked in a luscious curry with the pungent flavour and aroma of mustard in each bite.
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