Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, koi macher jhal (bengali fish curry). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Koi Macher Jhal (Bengali Fish Curry) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Koi Macher Jhal (Bengali Fish Curry) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have koi macher jhal (bengali fish curry) using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Koi Macher Jhal (Bengali Fish Curry):
- Make ready 2 koi fish, cleaned
- Prepare 3 tbsp mustard oil
- Make ready 1 tsp nigella seeds (kalonji)
- Get 2 tsp mustard paste / kasundi
- Get 1 tsp tomato paste
- Take to taste salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 2 green chilies, slit
- Prepare 1 tsp raw mustard oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp coriander leaves
The strong flavor of mustard and the hotness of The Bengali Mustard Fish calls for frying the fish steaks in mustard oil before adding to the curry. You can pan-fry like I did or deep fry the steaks. Aar Macher Jhol, a simple and easy Fish curry recipe which is cooked in almost all the Bengali households. Vegetables like Potato and Brinjal can be added in addition to the fish to enhance the taste and aroma of the curry.
Steps to make Koi Macher Jhal (Bengali Fish Curry):
- Marinate the fish with a pinch of salt and turmeric powder for 5 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and fry them on both sides till golden in colour. Drain and keep aside.
- In a bowl, mix together mustard paste, turmeric powder and tomato paste with little water to form a paste. Keep aside.
- Temper the same oil with nigella seeds. Saute for a few seconds and add the mustard paste. Saute till the oil separated and then add 1 cup water.
- Bring it to a boil. Then slowly drop in the fried fish, salt and the green chilies. Simmer on a medium flame for 2-3 minutes.
- When done, add the raw mustard oil and coriander leaves and switch off the flame. Serve with plain steamed rice.
Made in every Bengali Household, it is perfect for our everyday meals. Macher Jhol refers to fish curry in Bengali and there are countless different ways fish curry can be prepared. What I am sharing today is the simplest version of a Bengali fish curry using salmon. This way even if you can't find the authentic lake water fish, you will still get to enjoy Bengali style Macher. It is a quintessential Bengali style fish curry prepared with mustard paste.
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