Recipe: Delicious Hilsa Biryani Ilish Biryani

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Recipe: Delicious Hilsa Biryani Ilish Biryani Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Hilsa Biryani Ilish Biryani. Ilish biryani, a bengali recipe of aromatic basmati rice and hilsa fish, cooked in a dum pukht style with lots of fragrance. This bengali ilish mach or hilsa fish biryani is a new addition to our kolkata style biryani. I admit, one of the most challenging recipes is this - HILSA BIRYANI - because the taste of awesome Hilsa fish and Rich flavorful Biryani should be there sid.

This meatless dish is a perfect substitute for meat-biriyani.

This particular hilsa biriyani (Ilish macher biriyani) is easy to prepare.

Below is the complete procedure of this recipe. 'Ilish' (Hilsa) is called the queen of fish.

You can have Hilsa Biryani Ilish Biryani using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Hilsa Biryani Ilish Biryani

It’s 4 of hilsa fish.
It’s 6 of onions.
Prepare 5 of garlic cloves.
It’s 1 tsp of ginger.
Prepare 1 cup of yoghurt.
It’s 1 cup of milk.
It’s 4 of red chillies.
It’s 3 spoon of red chilli powder.
Prepare 2 bowl of basmati rice.
You need 2 of bay leaf.
It’s 2 of mac.
Prepare 2 of Nutmeg.
You need 2 of Cardamom.
Prepare 2 of star anise.
It’s 2 of black cardomon.
It’s 1 spoon of jeera (cumin seeds).
It’s 1 spoon of fennel seeds.
You need 1 inch of cinnamon sticks.
You need to taste of Salt.
It’s 1 spoon of turmeric powder.
Prepare 1/2 cup of mustard oil.
Prepare 4 spoon of cumin powder.
You need 4 spoon of coriander powder.
It’s pinch of Kesar(saffron).
You need 2 spoon of ghee.

Though now a days it is available throughout the year in market in various sizes.

The price of it also depends on the size of the fish.

ABOUT Ilish Macher Biryani (Hilsa Fish Biryani - Bengali Style) RECIPE.

A must try recipe for all fish lovers, this Hilsa Fish Biryani is just perfect for Ramadan or Eid celebration.

Hilsa Biryani Ilish Biryani instructions

Prepare Biryani masala. Add 1 each ingredient (bayleaf, mac, nutmeg, cardamom, star anish, black cardomon) and 1/2 sha zeera, fennel seeds and cinnamon sticks. Now fry all the ingredients for 5 minutes and griend it on a griender..
Then chopped onions. With half onions make a smooth paste with chillies. Then make a paste with garlic and ginger..
Now in a plain cotton white handkerchief put other Biryani masala and knot it..
Now cooked the rice. Put the handkerchief in the water and let it boil. Once water boil add the rice. Rice should be medium boil. Once rice is cooked, need to spread and let it cool..
Next lightly fry the fish wit salt and turmeric powder..
In the same pan add 1/2 chopped onions from the left out chopped onions. Fry it till golden brown and keep it handy. Then in a small bowl in a warm milk add kesar and keep it handy..
Then in the same pan add left over chopped onions. Fry it for few minutes, then add onion, garlic, salt and ginger paste. Then add cumming, coriander, red chilli and turmeric powder. Add yoghurt and 1 spoon of Biryani masala..
Mix all properly cook for 5 minutes then add milk. Cook all properly for another 10 minutes. Then add the fried fish and cover the pan. Cooked it for another 10 minutes in a low flame..
Once fish is ready next take a pressure cooker. In the pressure need to do layering for rice and fish. First put the rice then on top of it put the fish. Follow the same process for next layer. In the top cover with rice and spread fried onions, Biryani masala, ghee and kesar milk..
Cover the pressure and remove the lid. And cooked it for 15 minutes in a low flame..

It is cooked in a rich yoghurt and coconut milk gravy and flavoured with kewra water.

Serve it with some gravy, green chilies and lime wedges.

Biryani is a rich flavoured rice dish prepared with spices and non-vegetarian ingredients like chicken, mutton.

Ilish biryani is a similar rice, flavoured with the aromatic Ilish.

I tried a very easy version of this special dish.