Recipe: Delicious Tangra Machher Jhal/ Small Cat fish Curry

Tangra Machher Jhal/ Small Cat fish Curry.

You can cook Tangra Machher Jhal/ Small Cat fish Curry using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tangra Machher Jhal/ Small Cat fish Curry

1. Prepare 500 gms of tangra fish.
2. You need 1 of onion chopped & two whole onion.
3. It's 1 of tomato (chopped).
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Nigella seeds.
5. You need 3-4 of green chillies.
6. It's 1 tsp of kashmiri red chhilli powder.
7. You need 1 tsp of cumin powder.
8. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of sugar.
10. It's to taste of Salt.
11. You need 4-5 tbsp of mustard oil.

Tangra Machher Jhal/ Small Cat fish Curry step by step

1. Wash & clean the tangra fishes & marinate them with salt & turmeric powder for 10 mints..
2. In a kadhai heat mustard oil & fry lightly the tangra or cat fishes by covering the kadhai with a lid. Keep them aside..
3. In the same oil add nigella seeds,bay leaf, green chillies(splited), cardamom pods..
4. Then add chopped onions & whole onion, cook till it's colour changes to light brown..
5. Now add chopped tomatoes,Kashmiri red chilli powder, ginger paste, cumin powder, little salt,turmeric powder & cook them in medium heat till raw smell of masala goes away and oil comes out from masala..
6. Add some water & add the fishes. Cover the kadhai with lid and cook for another 5 mints..
7. Switch off the flame & garnish with chopped coriander leaves on a serving plate..
8. Serve hot with steamed rice..