Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pomfret macher jhol (pomfret fish curry - bengali style). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pomfret Curry is a very popular Fish Recipe in Bengali Cuisine. Marinate the fish with ¼ tsp salt and ¼ tsp turmeric powder. Our visit to the local Asian store Uwajimaya was pretty fruitful or rather fishful. This is how I cooked them as traditional bengali fish curry.
Pomfret Macher Jhol (Pomfret Fish Curry - Bengali Style) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Pomfret Macher Jhol (Pomfret Fish Curry - Bengali Style) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pomfret macher jhol (pomfret fish curry - bengali style) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pomfret Macher Jhol (Pomfret Fish Curry - Bengali Style):
- Get 1 Pomfret, cut into 3-4 pieces
- Make ready 2 pinches salt to marinate
- Take 2 pinches turmeric powder to marinate
- Take 3 tbsp. mustard oil
- Take few cauliflower florets
- Get 4-5 vadi (dried lentil dumplings)
- Get 1/2 tsp. nigella seeds (kalonji)
- Take 2 green chilies, slit
- Prepare 1 tsp. ginger paste
- Make ready 1 tsp. roasted cumin powder
- Take 1-2 tbsp. coriander leaves, chopped
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp. raw mustard oil
There is nothing like having this comfort food along with plain steamed rice and with a dash of lime. This Bengali recipe is known as maacher kalia or maacher jhol and is a fish curry with potatoes dish that is popular in many Indian families. 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.
Steps to make Pomfret Macher Jhol (Pomfret Fish Curry - Bengali Style):
- Marinate the fish pieces and the cauliflower florets with salt and turmeric powder for 5-10 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and fry the vadi till golden in colour. Drain and keep aside.
- In the same oil fry the fish pieces and the florets separately till light brown in colour. Keep them aside.
- Temper the same oil with nigella seeds and green chilies. Saute for a few seconds.
- Now add the ginger paste and all the dry spices mixed with a little water. Saute till dry.
- Add 1 1/2 cups water and bring it to a boil. Gently drop in the fried fish, fried cauliflower and fried vadi. Cover and simmer for 4-5 minutes or till the cauliflower turns soft.
- When done, add the coriander leaves and raw mustard oil and switch off the flame. Keep it covered for 5 minutes.
- Serve with plain steamed rice, few green chilies and lime wedges.
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. 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 Jhol.
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