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

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One of our favorite dish Here is what you'll need! Traditional Bengali Muri Ghonto Muri Ghonto is a Traditional Bengali Fish Head Recipe. Muri ghonto tastes best when served with hot steamed rice.

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

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

Sometimes my mother would cook the heads with lentils (muro diye dal), sometimes with green leaves, potatoes and mixed vegetables. Muri Ghonto is one such dish prepared with rice and is a side dish but not a main. I personally find the way rice is used in making Muri Ghonto really Muri Ghonto is one of the signature dishes from the Bengali Cuisine. This is prepared with Rice and Fishhead (mostly Rehu Fish/ Rui Mach or Katla fish).

Steps 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.

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. Muri-ghonto usually taste better with large fish heads, but as we get Tilapia fish here, so I prepared it with that.

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