Recipe: Tasty Tel koi

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Recipe: Tasty Tel koi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tel koi. And you are sure, my koi is bigger than Dada's ? The earthy aroma of cumin and fennel. Tel Koi is prepared with whole Fish.

Which signifies the requirement of extra oil in the recipe and it should be only good quality mustard oil.

Unlike many other Indian cuisines, Bengalis have limited the use of garlic in their cooking of fish.

The fish is cooked whole along with its head.

You can have Tel koi using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tel koi

  1. Prepare 4 pc of fish.

  2. You need 2 spoon of ginger paste.

  3. It’s 2 spoon of cumin powder.

  4. You need 1 spoon of mustard paste.

  5. It’s 2 of bay leaves paste.

  6. You need 6 of garam masala.

  7. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.

  8. It’s 1 spoon of ghee.

  9. Prepare to taste of .kashmiri red chilli powder.

  10. You need 50 gm of .mustard oil.

Tel koi is one such dish.

Even though extremely delicious, although very hot, this dish takes just minutes to cook and uses very few ingredients-things that are always available in a Bengali kitchen (and arguably in any kitchen).

This one is my grandma's famous recipe as remembered and interpreted by my aunts.

Learn how to make/prepare Tel Koi by following this easy recipe.

Tel koi instructions

  1. Heat the oil and fry the fish.

  2. Then add bay leaves,fry 1 minute and add ginger paste,cumin powder,kashmiri red chilli powder,bay leaves paste, taurmaric and salt.

  3. Sim the gas..

  4. After 10 minute add fish and mustard paste..

  5. After 3 minute add 1/4 cup of water..

  6. After 7 minute add goram masala and ghee..

  7. Then switch off the gas and serve with hot rice..

Tel Koi Based on whom you ask, Koi can turn out to be very different fishes.

For us Koi is the climbing perch or Anabas, it is not the fancy oriental Koi.

At the beginning of our stay in the Pacific North West, we managed with the local fish and cooked things like Salmon-er Jhaal.

However, there is so much you can manage with.

We at Cook Like a Bong wanted to share our joy with you all, and so we have planned to share one recipe everyday till Paila Baisakh.