Recipe: Yummy Bhapa Ilish or Steamed Hilsa in microwave

Bhapa Ilish or Steamed Hilsa in microwave. We show you how to how to make the all time favorite Bengali delicacy - Ilish Machh Bhapa, or Steam Cooked Hilsa Fish. And as bonus, this is a really quick. Bhapa ilish or steamed hilsa is a very tasty and easy recipe of bengali cuisine.

Back home Hilsa/Ilish is deep fried, steamed, smoked, baked/steamed in banana leaves, cooked Shad and Herring are near relatives of the Hilsa. Tenualosa ilisha (ilish, hilsa, hilsa herring, or hilsa shad) is a species of fish in the herring family (Clupeidae), and a popular food fish in South Asia. We show you how to how to make the all time favorite Bengali delicacy - Ilish Machh Bhapa, or Steam Cooked Hilsa Fish. You can have Bhapa Ilish or Steamed Hilsa in microwave using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bhapa Ilish or Steamed Hilsa in microwave

1. Prepare 4 pieces of Hilsa fish.
2. Prepare 3 tbsp of paste mustard seed.
3. Prepare 3 tbsp of sour curd.
4. You need 1 tbsp of Poppy seed.
5. You need to taste of Salt.
6. You need 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
7. It's 5 pieces of green chilli.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of chilli powder.
9. It's 4 tbsp of mustard oil.

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Bhapa Ilish or Steamed Hilsa in microwave instructions

1. Wash the fish and marinate with salt, turmeric powder.keep aside until use..
2. Put the mustard seed paste into a microwave safe bowl.add sour curd, salt, turmeric powder, mustard oil, poppy seed paste, chopped green chilli and 2 tbsp water.mix nicely..
3. Now add fish pieces into the mixture.. gradually mix with mustard paste. Cover the microwave bowl with a wrap..
4. Keep the bowl in the microwave for 2 to 3 minutes.take out the bowl from microwave and give 10 to 12 minutes of standing time..
5. Vapa Ilish in microwave is ready to eat now. Enjoy the recipe with steamed rice..

It is the signature Bengali dish and can be made in many ways but the most popular Bengali style is steamed Hilsa with mustard paste and mustard oil. In this Bhapa Ilish recipe raw Ilish/Hilsha pieces are steamed in mustard and coconut paste along with turmeric, green chili, salt and mustard oil. Hilsha Or Ilish is the most popular and tasty fish in Bengal. This fish is very aromatic itself. So we do not need much ingredient or a difficult recipe for this.