How to Make Appetizing Ilish maach bhaja (Hilsa fish fry)
How to Make Appetizing Ilish maach bhaja (Hilsa fish fry) Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Ilish maach bhaja (Hilsa fish fry). Now add the fish pieces carefully. Unlike for jhol (curry) where ilish is lightly fried, for bhaja (fry) the fish must be crisp and golden. Optionally, add a couple of green chillies towards the end to flavour the oil and the fish.
The pieces near the stomach of the fish are the best options (petir maach) for making ilish maach bhaja.
They are high on fish oil content and have longer easier bones with tender more tasty flesh.
Ilish is not just a fish to Bengali people, it's an emotion to us.
You can cook Ilish maach bhaja (Hilsa fish fry) using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Ilish maach bhaja (Hilsa fish fry)
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It’s 3-4 of Hilsa fish pieces.
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Prepare pinch of Turmeric powder.
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It’s 1/2 tsp of Salt.
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It’s as required of Oil.
Ilish Mach Bhaja (fried Hilsa), Ilish Bhaja tel (oil from fried fish) ladened steamed rice; flavoured with kancha lonka (green chili) as lunch platter is the ultimate goal of the Bong-life on a monsoon afternoon.
And the 'Bhat-ghum' afterwards is inevitable.
By the way, we are full of emotions ('excessive' will be.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Maach bhaja is a part of daily menu in Bengal and some parts of Bihar and Uttarpradesh.
Ilish maach bhaja (Hilsa fish fry) step by step
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Boil oil in pan. As the oil gets hot put hilsa fish pieces in the oil..
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Before putting it in the oil, sprinkle turmeric powder and salt on fish pieces. Then put it for frying..
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As the fish starts changing colour to golden,turn its side and fry again. As the fish becomes golden in colour, it is ready..
It is a simple recipe for the Seafood lovers.
Apart from quenching the fish thirst it is instant source of protein and essential oils.
Let me start with the easiest of the lot, Ilish Mach Bhaja (click here for the recipe) or Fried Hilsa.
Do fry the Ilish and pair it with Khichuri.
It will for sure make a rainy afternoon more beautiful.
