Fish in mustard gravy
Fish in mustard gravy

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fish in mustard gravy. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Fish in mustard gravy is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Fish in mustard gravy is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

I started to cook fish and try to look beyond my usual Fish Fry. This fish curry I made with my sister recipe, she gave me a bottle of whole yellow mustard seeds and recipe to use the mustard in different recipe. This is a Bengali's sheer love - Ilish maach.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have fish in mustard gravy using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Fish in mustard gravy:
  1. Take rohu fish
  2. Make ready potatoes
  3. Take medium sized tomatoes
  4. Prepare chopped coriander leaves
  5. Prepare mustard oil
  6. Take red chilli powder
  7. Take turmeric powder
  8. Take coriander powder
  9. Take black pepper powder
  10. Make ready mustard powder
  11. Prepare onion paste
  12. Get garlic paste
  13. Get For frying fish:
  14. Get turmeric powder
  15. Get red chilli powder
  16. Prepare salt

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 In odisha we call this 'Macha Besara', Macha means fish and besara is the mustard gravy. Macher Jhol means Fish (macher) in curry/gravy (jhol). It has few ingredients and they play a crucial role.

Instructions to make Fish in mustard gravy:
  1. Wash and drain fish.Add red chilli powder,turmeric powder and salt.
  2. Heat 100 ml oil and and fry fish in two batches.Take out and keep aside.
  3. Heat remaining oil in the same pan,add onion and garlic paste.Saute fot 10 seconds.Add 1tbsp water and cook on low flame for 1 minute.
  4. Add remaining spices and cook for 4-5minutes. Add chopped tomatoes and salt.Add potatoes and cook till done.
  5. Adjust gravy,add fried fish.Cook for 3-4minutes.
  6. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
  7. Serve with hot boiled rice.

The strong flavor of mustard and the hotness of The Bengali Mustard Fish calls for frying the fish steaks in mustard oil before adding to the curry. You can pan-fry like I did or deep fry the steaks. Switch the flame off and serve Mustard Fish Curry or Shorshe Bata. This is my attempt to show how to make Odia Macha Besara or Orissa Style Fish in Mustard Gravy/Curry. This recipe goes really well with steamed rice and this is how traditionally it has been served in Odisha.

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