Easiest Way to Special Eating on a Dime Fish curry with mustard sauce

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Fish curry with mustard sauce. This Mustard Fish Curry recipe is sure to be a family favourite because of the mustard paste and lemon juice used in it. Akin to Bengali fish curry, this recipe is a tasteful variation. Also, the addition of mustard in any fish preparation never lets it taste dull and also gives the fish curry an unforgettable taste.

This curry is best eaten with simple steamed rice.

Everytime I make this fish curry in light mustard sauce I get transported back home.

In odisha we call this 'Macha Besara', Macha means fish and besara is the mustard gravy.

You can have Fish curry with mustard sauce using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fish curry with mustard sauce

1. You need 4 pieces of rohu fish.

2. It’s 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

3. It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.

4. It’s 1-4 of green chillies.

5. You need 3 tbsp of mustard oil.

6. You need 2 tbsp of mustard seeds.

7. You need 3 of Tomatoes.

8. Prepare as required of Coriander leaves for garnishing.

This fish curry is a variation to bengali fish curry in mustard sauce with some add on spices.

One more thing that is unique to this is traditionally a piece of dry mango called 'ambula' is added to give the sourness.

Basically 'ambula' is raw mango cut into half, marinated in salt and then sun dried till.

Kasundi Ilish is a Bengali fish curry prepared with instant mustard sauce Kasundi which means you do not need to make the mustard paste to make the Ilish macher jhal if you are following this recipe!

Fish curry with mustard sauce instructions

1. Marinate the fish steaks with little turmeric powder and salt. Keep aside..

2. Powder yellow mustard seeds to yield the required amount for curry as per recipe..

3. Blend tomatoes, garlic, 3 green chilies, powdered mustard, salt and half cup.

4. Heat mustard oil in a pan until smoking hot. Remove from heat for 30sec and then keep back..

5. Add nigella seeds and let it sizzle for about 10 sec. Add the tomato-mustard-chilli paste..

6. Cook until the excess water is evaporated and oil is released. This would take about 10 mins..

7. Reduce heat and cook for anouther couple of minutes until it darkens a little..

8. Add one and half cups of water, mix well and bring to a boil. Simmer for about ten minutes..

9. Pan-fry the marinated fish steaks in mustard oil until golden brown..

10. Add the fish to the mustard sauce and cook for a couple of minutes more..

11. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with steamed rice..

Ilish itself is tremendously flavorful and you do not need many spices to enhance the flavors.

Mustard Fish Curry is an easy Bengali style recipe.

Its quick to make with great flavor.

This traditional Bengali recipe is actually really easy, and tastes delicious.

Some of the delectable fish dishes with sorshe baata / mustard paste are - our famous sorshe bhapa ilish / Hilsa in mustard sauce and sorshe narkel chingri / shrimps in mustard - coconut sauce (the use of mustard with coconut is distinctively very much East Bengal thing), the signature paturis in mustard base and parshe macher jhaal.