Recipe: Yummy Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish

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Recipe: Yummy Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish. 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. The fish has a buttery texture and melts in your mouth immediately.

That explains why it is so expensive.

Like everything, hilsa too has it's favorites.

How to Make Steamed Hilsa or Ilish Bhapa.

You can have Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish

  1. Prepare 1 kg of Hilsa fish cut in ring shape.

  2. It’s 3 spoons of mustard paste.

  3. You need 1 tsp of ginger paste.

  4. You need 1 tsp of haldi powder.

  5. It’s as required of Mustard oil.

  6. It’s 1 tbsp of hunk curd.

  7. You need 1 tsp of green chili paste.

  8. Prepare to taste of Salt & sugar according.

  9. You need as required of Water.

It is the signature Bengali dish and can be made in many ways but the most popular Bengali style is steamed Hilsa with mustard paste and mustard oil.

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.

Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish step by step

  1. Marinate fish with salt, haldi powder and keep for 10 mins..

  2. In a bowl mix curd, salt, sugar, green chilli paste and 1 pinch haldi powder..

  3. Now heat a square microwave-safe bowl with 2 tbsp mustard oil for 2mins..

  4. Then add fish and add the masala paste with 1 cup of water and in a microwave oven cook for 10mis in microwave mode with temperature 90° c..

  5. Give some standing time gravy will become thick. This can also be done in gas oven too. In a kadai pour 2 cups of water and heat it place a steel stand inside the kadai and arrange the fish with masala paste in a steel bowl or tiffin box and keep it on the stand cover the bowl and the Kadai with a lid. Rest of the process same..

Bhapa ilish or ilish bhapa recipe is an iconic fish recipe of Bengali.

This is the perfect recipe for lunch or dinner.

ABOUT Bhapa Ilish (Steamed Hilsa Fish) RECIPE.

A delightful delicacy from the heart of Bengal capable to titilate any taste buds.

Hilsa fish cooked with mustard paste.