Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils)
Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils)

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, muri ghonto (fish head curry with lentils). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

One of our favorite dish Here is what you'll need! MURI GHONTO is an authentic fish dish for a Bengali. My sister and I were very fond of eating the soft and juicy fish brain, so fish head curry was often in the menu. Sometimes my mother would cook the heads with lentils (muro diye dal), sometimes with green leaves, potatoes and mixed vegetables.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook muri ghonto (fish head curry with lentils) using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils):
  1. Get 2 catla/rohu fish head
  2. Get 2/3 cup moong dal
  3. Make ready 1 small onion
  4. Get Half tomato
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
  6. Make ready 1 tsp coriander-cumin powder
  7. Take as required Turmeric powder
  8. Prepare to taste Salt
  9. Take 1-2 slit green chillies
  10. Take 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
  11. Make ready 1 tsp ghee
  12. Prepare as required Oil
  13. Make ready 1 tsp sugar
  14. Make ready as needed Khada garam masalas
  15. Take 1/2 tsp sabut jeera
  16. Get 1 dried red chilli, a bay leaf
  17. Prepare 1 pinch hing

Traditionally in Bengal, a newly married groom is welcomed with a huge cooked fish head as the part of his first lunch at in-laws. When someone serves you a fish head as a part of the meal, do you label it 'Bizarre food'? Need to check with Andrew Zimmerman. :). Muri Ghonto, or Fish head curry with Gobindobhog Rice is a signature Bengali delicacy from the traditional kitchens of Bengal.

Instructions to make Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils):
  1. Wash the fish head properly & add salt and turmeric powder to it, coat them well. Now heat a pan, add oil in it and shallow fry the heads properly.
  2. Till the time the head pieces gets fried, take another pan or kadai & dry roast the dal for about 2 mins then immediately remove it from the kadai or else the dal may get burnt. Then boil the dal for 3 to 4 whistles.
  3. Now when the fish-head gets fried, remove them in a plate, now break them into large pieces as shown in the image. Don't break into small pieces, otherwise the fish bones will completely get mixed with the dal. Now keep it aside.
  4. Now in the same pan add sum more oil if required. Heat the oil & put sabut jeera, khada garam masalas, bay leaf, dried red chilli. Now when it starts spluttering, add a pinch of hing. Now add onion, tomato pieces, slit green chillies, ginger-garlic paste. Then add coriander-cumin powder, turmeric powder, salt sugar and fry everything well.
  5. When it's half done, add the fish head pieces into it & fry them with the masalas untill oil starts seperating from the masalas. Now add the boiled dal into it, then cover it & cook it in a low flame for about 5 to 7 mins. At last add garam masala powder and a tsp of ghee to it and serve hot with rice.

Need to check with Andrew Zimmerman. :). Muri Ghonto, or Fish head curry with Gobindobhog Rice is a signature Bengali delicacy from the traditional kitchens of Bengal. The Fish head or Muri (a.k.a Muro) of Rohu or Catla(Katla) fish is cooked with flavourful short grained Gobindobhog Rice. Bengalis are long known to be avid fish lovers. Muri-Ghonto, one of the most popular & traditional Bengali dish.

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