Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Tetul Pata Ilish

 Ingredients
 125 to 150 gm - Hilsa
30 gm baby tamarind
10 gm of tamarind leaves
3 - 4 green slited chillies
3-4 spoons of mustard oil
1 - 2 onion seeds
2-3 green chilli paste
3/4 tumeric powder
salt to taste
sugar to taste
 
Steps:  
 
Apply salt and part of the turmeric to the fish and keep aside
Boil the baby tamarind in water and prepare a pulp
Heat oil in a Kadhai and temper with onion seeds and chillies
Dissolve tumeric in watr and add to the spices.
Stir and add the fish and saute carefully
Add the tamarind pulp, chilli paste and water
Add seasoning
Cover and simmer.
Now add the washed tamarind leaves
Simmer, covered.
Pour a little mustard oil over the broth and remove