Recipe: Perfect Ilish Maach Bhaja (Hilsa Fish Fry)

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Recipe: Perfect 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.

As the oil gets hot put hilsa fish pieces in the oil.

Be careful not to lose any of the fish egg or roe as they are easy to wash off if held under water.

The pieces near the stomach of the fish are the best options (petir maach) for making ilish maach bhaja.

You can have Ilish Maach Bhaja (Hilsa Fish Fry) using 5 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ilish Maach Bhaja (Hilsa Fish Fry)

  1. You need 2 of Hilsa fish pieces.

  2. It’s 1/4 tsp or to taste of salt.

  3. It’s 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder.

  4. You need 3 tbsp of mustard oil.

  5. It’s 2 of dry red chilies / green chilies.

They are high on fish oil content and have longer easier bones with tender more tasty flesh.

Maach bhaja is a part of daily menu in Bengal and some parts of Bihar and Uttarpradesh.

It is a simple recipe for the Seafood lovers.

Apart from quenching the fish thirst it is instant source of protein and essential oils.

Ilish Maach Bhaja (Hilsa Fish Fry) step by step

  1. Marinate the fish pieces with salt and turmeric powder for 10 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the fish till golden brown in colour. Fry the dry red chilies too, if using..

  2. Serve with hot steamed rice along with the oil in which it was fried. Accompany it with 1-2 fried dry red chilies or fresh green / red chilies..

Shorshe Ilish - the evergreen classic; Ilish Maach Bhaja and Ilisher tel

Luckily our local fish markets are loaded with fresh supply of Ilish mach from Padma (Ganges in Bangladesh) also.

So what could be better than eating Khichuri and Ilish mach Bhaja.

Ilish (Hilsa) fish is a Bengalis culinary delight.

There is Ilish macher bhappa,paturi and a simple fish fry.