Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, achari tel ilish (bengali fish curry). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A quick, simple, easy-to-make, Ilish curry that uses only a handful of ingredients is ideal for fresh, flavourful hilsa (or ilish). Ilish is the Queen of Fish. It is oily & tasty then other Fishes.
Achari Tel Ilish (Bengali Fish Curry) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Achari Tel Ilish (Bengali Fish Curry) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook achari tel ilish (bengali fish curry) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Achari Tel Ilish (Bengali Fish Curry):
- Take 2 pieces Hilsa fish, cleaned
- Get 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 1/2 tsp nigella seeds (kalonji)
- Prepare to taste salt
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp. red chilli powder
- Make ready 2-3 green chilies, slit
- Make ready 1-2 tsp any pickle (I used mango pickle)
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander leaves, chopped
Now, lower the fish pieces into the oil one by one and fry them for a minute on each side. Delicately flavoured fish such as the ilish does not need heavy searing, so fry very lightly. Pabda Macher Jhol or Pabda Tel Jhaal is Bengali fish curry with No Onion No Garlic. Mildly spicy, flavoured with ginger, cumin seeds & fresh coriander.
Instructions to make Achari Tel Ilish (Bengali Fish Curry):
- Make a paste with the turmeric powder, red chilli powder and 1/2 cup water. Keep aside.
- Marinate the fish pieces with a pinch of salt and turmeric powder for 10 minutes.
- Heat oil & fry the fish pieces slightly on both sides. Drain & keep aside.
- Temper the same oil with nigella seeds & green chilies. Saute for a few seconds.
- Add the paste and saute for a few seconds.
- Then add salt, pickle, 1/2 cup water and the fried fish. Bring it to a boil. Simmer on a medium flame for 2 minutes.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with plain steamed rice.
Pabda is a delicate fish with extremely flavourful flesh. Hence Pabda Macher Kalo Jeerer Jhol is cooked light with minimal usage of spices. Bengali's meal is incomplete without fish. Through this blog you will know how to identify bengali fishes, quality of fishes, prices, tastes. You will gate mom's recipe of tasty spicy fish curry.
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