Recipe: Tasty Bengali "Sorshe ilish"/ Hilsha Fish Curry with Mustard paste 🍲

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Bengali "Sorshe ilish"/ Hilsha Fish Curry with Mustard paste 🍲. Sorshe Ilish Macher Jhal is a classic Bengali dish where Ilish or Hilsa Herring is cooked in a gravy of Mustard Seeds paste. This dish is very popular Ilish Maach or Hilsa is one of the most sought after fishes as its availability is limited to a particular time of the year. It is believed that the season's best.

Bengali "Sorshe ilish"/ Hilsha Fish Curry with Mustard paste 🍲 It's a classic Bengali fish curry prepared with a delectable sauce of freshly grind mustard seed and mustard oil. Sorshe Ilish is a traditional Bengali dish. Nothing is more blissful than a plate of steamed rice with some pieces of Hilsa along with the mustard gravy. You can cook Bengali "Sorshe ilish"/ Hilsha Fish Curry with Mustard paste 🍲 using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bengali "Sorshe ilish"/ Hilsha Fish Curry with Mustard paste 🍲

  1. It's 3 pieces of Hilsha Fish.
  2. You need 2 tablespoon of Mustard paste.
  3. Prepare 2 tablespoon of chopped onions.
  4. It's 3-4 of green chillies.
  5. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of green chilli paste.
  6. It's 1/4 teaspoon of termeric powder.
  7. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of ginger-garlic paste.
  8. You need 2 tablespoon of Mustard Oil.
  9. You need 1/4 teaspoon of Coriander powder.
  10. It's of Water as required (to taste).
  11. You need of Salt as required.

You can use rest (if anything left) of the paste for making mustard-based fish or vegetable curries. Or else, you can use ready to use mustard. Hilsa fish is commonly known as 'Ilish maachh' in Bengal. It is the most popular and costly fish due its aroma and taste. "Hilsa in Mustard Gravy" is authentic Bengali dish, when i tried it in my Kitchen,I found it so easy to cook.

Bengali "Sorshe ilish"/ Hilsha Fish Curry with Mustard paste 🍲 step by step

  1. Take a Frypan,put mustard oil and heat it. Put the chopped onions and salt into it and fry untill onions become lite brown..
  2. Now put ginger garlic paste, Coriander powder,termeric powder and green chilli paste into it and fry for 1 minutes..
  3. Now put Black Mustard paste and mix properly.Put some water and stir continuously on stove..
  4. Clean the Hilsha fish and cut into medium pieces. Take 3 pieces of fish and wash them throughly with water.Drain them and keep aside..
  5. When mustard paste is stir fried properly now put the pieces of fresh Hilsha fish into it with some more water as you required and cook untill the fish is 80% boiled..
  6. Now put 2-3 green chillies and cover the Frypan.Cook more 5 minutes in a medium low flame..
  7. When Hilsha fish is 100% cooked, stop the stove immediately. Sorshe ilish is ready to serve. Enjoy it hot with steamed rice..

Preparation of Mustard Hilsa -Bengali Sorshe Ilish : Ingredients -. Make a fine paste of the mixture. Heat mustard oil in a pan and put the fish and sauté. Hilsa fish,commonly known as "Ilish Maach" in Bengal is very much popular dish among Bengalies. Any preparation with Ilish becomes Bengal delicacy.