Recipe: Delicious Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa

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Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa. Ilish Begun Jhol/ Ilish and eggplant curry bengali style Ilish or Hilsa cooked in a light broth flavoured with nigella seeds and the fish itself with the brinjals providing a nice body to the dish. The slit green chilies are an added bonus. Ilish Begun or Hilsa with Eggplant Curry is hot favorite dish in Bengali cuisine.

Idle ruminations as I cook my Ilish Begun er Jhol this morning-In the universe of cooking, almost dwarfing the rest of the pack, stand out, conspicuous and tall, some magical ingredients.

Jora Ilish and Jora Begun on Saraswati Puja: There is a ritual among some Bongs mainly 'Bangal' (Bengalis migrated to West Bengal from Bangladesh after partition) they do not eat ' Hilsa' after ' Vijaya Dashami ' (The last day of Durga Puja i.e the day of immersion).

Ilish or Hilsa is not just a fish it is an emotion to all Bengalis.

You can have Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa

  1. Prepare 4 pieces of hilsa/ilish.

  2. It’s 1 of large purple bharta egg plant /begun(seedless recommended).

  3. You need 5-6 of green chillies.

  4. It’s 1 tsp of Black cumin/ kalonji/ kalo zeera.

  5. Prepare 2 tsp of Mustard oil.

  6. You need 1 tsp of turmeric powder.

  7. Prepare as per taste of Salt.

Begun ilish or hilsa with eggplant is a very simple recipe.

The main ingredient is mustard oil which brings out the tempting.

Hilsa Fish and Eggplant Recipe Ingredients:- Hilsa Fish Eggplant Mustard Oil Mustard Seeds Paste Dry Chili Paste Turmeric Powder Salt Water Our.

Gently slide the fish pieces into the hot oil.

Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa instructions

  1. Cut eggplant/ begun long eight pieces..

  2. Marinate the fish pieces with salt and turmeric. Fry the pieces both sides for 2 mins each with medium heat. Dont over fry then fish will be stiff..

  3. Now in that same pan heat oil, add Black cumin and two slitted green chillies and wait untill crakers sound stop and you get kalo zeera and chillies nice smell. Add eggplants and saute low flame for 1 min. Then add one cup hot water mixed with salt and turmeric. Add another one cup only hot water, rest slitted green chillies, fish pieces and bring boil in high flame..

  4. If more gravy you want you can add more hot water. Cook untill eggplant become soft. Fish curry has done. Serve hot with hot stream rice..

If you want to try authentic food in Kolkata, you must definitely try fish dishes.

That said, Ilish (Hilsa) dishes are one of the most sought-after dishes.

Bengali restaurants in Kolkata often experiment a lot with Ilish dishes.

Apart from the rustic Shorshe Ilish, Ilish Paturi, Bhapa Ilish, Aam Ilish or the Ilish Biryani, you might come across scrumptious Fusion Ilish recipes as.

Ilish is a marine fish but it comes to the sweet water rivers during monsoon to breed.