How to Easy Tasty Steamed Bhapa Hilsa

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Steamed Bhapa Hilsa. How to make Bhapa Ilish Recipe (Steamed Hilsa) To begin making the Bhapa Ilish recipe, wash and tap dry the steaks of hilsa with a kitchen towel and set aside. Blend until the paste is smooth. Bhapa Ilish or steamed Hilsa is a signature Bengali fish preparation where Hilsa Fish or Ilish Maach is steamed along with spices and ended on a mouth-watering fish curry.

Many people like Bengali fish recipes.

So today, I have come up with a Bengali fish recipe for you.

It is bhapa ilish recipe made of ilish Mach (hilsa fish) with mastered powder and spices.

You can cook Steamed Bhapa Hilsa using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Steamed Bhapa Hilsa

  1. It’s 4 pieces of Hilsa Fish.

  2. You need 1 tsp of Poppy Seeds Paste.

  3. You need 4 tsp of Mustard Seeds Paste.

  4. Prepare 4 tsp of Plain Yougurt.

  5. Prepare 1 tbsp of Turmeric Powder.

  6. It’s 4 of Green Chillies.

  7. Prepare of .Salt and Sugar as per taste.

  8. You need 2 tbsp of Mustard Oil.

  9. It’s 1 tbsp of Green Chilli Paste.

Bhapa ilish recipe - it's actually making of authentic bengali style steamed hilsa recipe with step by step pictures.

This mouthwatering Bhapa ilish or ilish bhapa is mainly made with ilish mach or hilsa fish, bengali mustard sauce, or shorshe bata, grated coconut, or narkel and doi.

Preparation for Ilish Bhapa or Steamed Hilsa.

In a mixie, add the mustard, poppy seeds, and green chilies as mentioned under "Make a Paste of" and ground to a fine paste.

Steamed Bhapa Hilsa instructions

  1. First Marinate the fish with 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tbsp salt.Keep it for 5mins..

  2. In a mixing jar add 4tbsp Muster Seeds, 1 tbsp Poppy Seeds, 4tbsp Yougurt, Green Chilli 3 nos,Salt & Sugar as per your taste, Turmeric Powder 1tbsp and blend well..

  3. Take a big bowl with air tight lid..

  4. And poured all the muxer into the blow and add 1/2 cup water and mix well..

  5. Then add fish & Mustard Oil mix well. Close the container lid very well..

  6. Now heat a big pan add water put the container in water..

  7. Then cook in mediam flame for 20mins..

  8. After 20mins put the gas off & removed the container from the pan..

  9. Open the container lid very carefully..

  10. Your Recipe is ready, Served with hot steamed rice..

Keep aside in the tiffin box.

Bhapa Ilish or steamed hilsa is one of the most popular hilsa dish in Bengal.

Ilish bhaape, also known as Shorshe lish bhapa (or bhaape) meaning steamed mustard hilsa, is a Bengali recipe of hilsa fish (a type of shad) steamed in a potent mustard, doi (yoghurt) and coconut paste.

Even though it looks very polished, it is a fairly easy recipe to execute, requiring few ingredients, no special technique, and very little time.

And now to the Ilish Bhaape or Bhapa Ilish aka Steamed Hilsa.