Recipe: Delicious Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry)

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Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry). In Bengal, local carp called rohu is used to make this macher jhol recipe, but using a filleted meaty white fish in its place such as cod or halibut works just as well. A superb fish curry fit for a feast. Macher Jhol, a simple and easy Fish curry recipe which is cooked in almost all the Bengali households.

I always used to think Bengali cuisine to be on the sweeter side.

Their desserts are to die for.

Aar Macher Jhol is a Bengali Fish curry prepared with Aar/Rohu/Katla fish.

You can cook Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry) using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry)

1. It’s 5-6 pieces of rohu fish (peeled and de scaled).

2. You need 2 of potatoes (cut in wedges).

3. It’s 1 of onion (cut in slices).

4. You need 3 of green chilies.

5. Prepare 1 tbsp of Turmeric powder.

6. It’s 1 1/2 of tbspCumin powder.

7. Prepare 1 tbsp of Ginger paste.

8. You need of Salt.

9. You need 4-5 tbsp of Mustard oil.

10. You need 1 of bay leaf(optional).

The gravy is such an uncomplicated gravy which can be prepared in a jiffy with the items available in the pantry and tastes best with Steamed white rice.

Vegetables like Potato and Brinjal can be added in addition to the fish to enhance the taste and aroma of the curry.

That was the first time when I tasted the Rohu fish though I always prefer sea water fishes but there is a way of making and choosing fresh water fish and if you can do it well then it taste delicious.

To me, this 'Sobji diye macher jhol' is a perfect one pot meal with steaming rice.

Bangali maacher jhol (simple bengal fish curry) step by step

1. Mix the raw fishes with salt and turmeric.

2. Fry the fish in hot mustard oil, both sides.

3. Keep the fishes aside once fried, add some more oil in pan and add potatoes to fry.

4. After the potatoes are done, pour some more oil and fry the onion with chillies.

5. Add bay leaf, ginger paste, turmeric and cumin powder and stir well and salt to taste.

6. Now pour in a cup of warm water on the mixture and add on the fried potatoes and cover and simmer it.

7. Once the mixture comes to boil add the fried fish.

8. Serve it with steamed rice.

A bowl of this contains a good amount of nutrition from the vegetables, proteins from the fish, and the broth soothes your soul and adds to your energy for the rest of the day.

This Macher Jhol or the bengali fish curry recipe is just a small and humble attempt to replicate one of the ever favorite recipe from them.

The Macher Jhol or the Bengali fish curry recipe is traditionally made with mustard oil in a onion based gravy with aromatic spices.

For my daughter, a life in America is all that she has ever known and will probably ever know.

She appreciates her lineage and ethnicity but somewhere, I know that when she would be on her own, a dinner of pasta and grilled chicken would be a more normal thing for her to go back to than macher jhol and bhat (the quintessential Classic Bengali fish stew and rice).