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Great recipe for Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style. #nonvegcurries - This is a traditional dal (lentil) recipe where moong dal (split green gram) is dry roasted and cooked with fish head. It is had with plain steamed rice and is considered a delicacy on a Bengali platter. Great recipe for Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style). This is a traditional dal (lentil) recipe where moong dal (split green gram) is dry roasted and cooked with fish head.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fish head lentil curry - bengali style using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style:
- Get 1/2 cup moong dal (split green gram), dry roasted
- Get 1 Rohu fish head, deep fried
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped
- Get 1 tsp. ginger-garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp. tomato paste /1/2 cup tomato puree
- Make ready 4 tbsp. mustard oil
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. panch phoron (equal quantities of fennel, fenugreek, cumin, mustard & nigella seeds)
- Prepare 1" cinnamon
- Get 2 green cardamoms
- Get 4 cloves
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 dry red chilli, broken into half
- Prepare 1 tbsp. roasted coriander-cumin powder
- Take 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- Get to taste salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. garam masala powder
- Make ready 1 tsp. red chilli powder
- Prepare 1-2 green chilies, slit (opt)
- Make ready 1 tsp. ghee (clarified butter)
Add the boiled moong dal into the pan, add little water, mix it and let it come to boil. Add little salt and garam masala powder, stir it. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and turn off the heat. Macher matha diye dal (Bengali: maach = fish; maatha = head) is a delicious lentil preparation.
Steps to make Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style:
- Dry roast the moong dal (split green gram). Boil in 1 1/2 cups water for 4-5 whistles. When cool, whisk well along with salt and turmeric powder and keep aside.
- Deep fry the fish head after marinating with a pinch of salt & turmeric powder.
- Temper the oil with panch phoron, dry red chilli, cinnamon, cardamoms, cloves and bay leaves. Saute for a few seconds.
- Add onion and saute till light brown.
- Add the ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander-cumin powder, tomato paste & garam masala powder mixed with 2-3 tbsp. water.
- Add the boiled dal, salt, green chilies (opt) and the fried fish head.
- When done, add ghee and mix well. Serve hot with plain steamed rice.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and turn off the heat. Macher matha diye dal (Bengali: maach = fish; maatha = head) is a delicious lentil preparation. Fish head, which has been shallow fried in mustard oil, is added to roasted and boiled moong dal (split green gram), and given a simple tempering of onions, tomatoes and basic Indian spices like cumin seeds, coriander powder, etc. Back from a long vacation and my mach pagla Bangali mon (fish loving Bengali mind) started craving for some fish, some rice and some spices. Season sauce to taste with salt.
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