Recipe: To Try At Home Sorshe Mach(fish in mustard gravy)

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Sorshe Mach(fish in mustard gravy). Bengali Sorshe baata diye macher jhaal or fish in Bengali mustard gravy / sauce is perhaps one of the most iconic dish in Bengali cuisine. Though this dish would be a common everyday affair in most of the Bengali homes, but what makes it so unique and distinctive is the use of fresh mustard paste. Sorshe bata diye maach (Fish in mustard gravy).

My father prefers a thick gravy while I prefer both.

Sorshe ilish is a traditional recipe of our Bengali cuisine where ilish mach or hilsa fish is cooked with a shorshe bata or mustard paste gravy.

Heat oil in pan, put the fish and just saute it for a mintue on low flame, don't fry it.

You can have Sorshe Mach(fish in mustard gravy) using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sorshe Mach(fish in mustard gravy)

  1. You need of fish.

  2. Prepare of onion.

  3. It’s of garlic pods.

  4. It’s of whole cumin seeds and pepper corns.

  5. You need of mustard sauce(ready made).

  6. It’s of tomato.

  7. You need of oil.

Strain the mustard paste into another bowl.

Add the strained mustard paste into the pan, cover the pan and let the gravy boil.

Macher Jhal is a very popular and authentic fish recipe of Bengal.

As every Indian knows Bengalis are fond of fish, they eat fish almost everyday in a week.

Sorshe Mach(fish in mustard gravy) step by step

  1. Grind together onion, cumin seeds and pepper with garlic cloves into a smooth paste..

  2. Meanwhile descale the fish and add lemon and salt and keep aside.Then add little salt,red chilli powder and turmeric powder and fry it..

  3. Now put oil in a pan.Add the masalas and saute well Now add the mustard paste and keep stirring finally add the fish.Serve with steam rice..

  4. Saute onion paste add red chilli powder and turmeric powder and salt..

  5. Keep stirring until masalas leave the oil..

Fish is the main item of their daily menu.

So there are different items are cooked with fish.

Macher Jhol, Macher Kalia, Macher Korma, Macher Jhal etc.

Now add the Mustard water to the Gravy and bring the mixture to boil.

Now it's time to add Fried Fish pieces to the Gravy.