Recipe: Delicious Shutki Maach Bata

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Recipe: Delicious Shutki Maach Bata Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Shutki Maach Bata. Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks on the foreshore. The drying racks are known as fish flakes. Cod is the most common fish used in stockfish production, though other whitefish, such as pollock, haddock, ling and tusk, are also used.

This is a fiery creation made with onion, garlic and chilli cooked in mustard oil.

The version that I enjoy eating and cooking most uses very few ingredients.

It is a rather spicy mishmash of dry fish, rich in taste and is marked by profusion of onion, garlic and dry red chilies,all used to cut down the pungent odor of the dry fish.

You can have Shutki Maach Bata using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Shutki Maach Bata

  1. It’s 1 cup of dry fish (I used dry shrimps).

  2. You need 4-5 of garlic cloves.

  3. Prepare 2-3 of green chilies.

  4. You need 2-3 tbsp. of mustard oil.

  5. You need 1 tsp. of nigella seeds (kalonji).

  6. You need 1/4 tsp. of asafoetida (opt).

  7. You need 1-2 of onion, chopped.

  8. You need 1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder.

  9. It’s to taste of salt.

  10. You need 1 tbsp. of coriander leaves, chopped.

  11. Prepare 1 tsp. of mustard oil to garnish.

This is generally known as Shutki bhorta /bata /bhuna(mishmash) in Bangladeshi cuisine,and as.

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Dried fish, called shutki maach, is a firm favourite among Bangals, whereas no Ghoti worth his salt would ever touch it.

Shutki Maach Bata instructions

  1. Wash the dry fish nicely under running water. Drain well and grind along with garlic and green chilies into a smooth paste. Keep aside..

  2. Heat mustard oil in a pan and temper with nigella seeds and asafoetida. Add the onion and saute till light brown..

  3. Add the ground paste, salt & turmeric powder. Saute on a low flame till dry..

  4. Add coriander leaves and give it a toss..

  5. While serving, drizzle some mustard oil over the the bata (chutney). Enjoy with hot steamed rice..

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Bangladesh is a country with thousands of rivers and ponds and is notable for being a fish-loving nation, acquiring the name "Machh-e Bhat-e Bangali" which means, "Bengali by fish and rice".

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