Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ilish begun/eggplant hilsa. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hi everyone, hope you all are doing great. Ilish or Hilsa is not just a fish it is an emotion to all Bengalis. Begun ilish or hilsa with eggplant is a very.
Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have ilish begun/eggplant hilsa using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa:
- Take 4 pieces hilsa/ilish
- Get 1 large purple bharta egg plant /begun(seedless recommended)
- Prepare 5-6 green chillies
- Take 1 tsp Black cumin/ kalonji/ kalo zeera
- Make ready 2 tsp Mustard oil
- Take 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Get as per taste Salt
The fish curry is light and soupy with the flavour fresh fish and eggplant chunks. Monsoon without Ilish, we just can't think of that. This is one of my favorite fish. This is a very light curry of Hilsha fish, which is cooked with eggplant & potato.
Steps to make Ilish begun/eggplant hilsa:
- Cut eggplant/ begun long eight pieces.
- Marinate the fish pieces with salt and turmeric. Fry the pieces both sides for 2 mins each with medium heat. Don't over fry then fish will be stiff.
- Now in that same pan heat oil, add Black cumin and two slitted green chillies and wait untill crakers sound stop and you get kalo zeera and chillies nice smell. Add eggplants and saute low flame for 1 min. Then add one cup hot water mixed with salt and turmeric. Add another one cup only hot water, rest slitted green chillies, fish pieces and bring boil in high flame.
- If more gravy you want you can add more hot water. Cook untill eggplant become soft. Fish curry has done. Serve hot with hot stream rice.
Spices are used in a very little amount. The ilish (Tenualosa ilisha) (Bengali: ইলিশ, romanized: iliš), also known as the ilisha, hilsa, hilsa herring or hilsa shad, is a species of fish related to the herring, in the family Clupeidae. It is a very popular and sought-after food fish in the Indian Subcontinent. Hilsa in Pumpkin leaves / Ilish Paturi is a unique fish item. You can steam the wrapped fish but I like to cook on pan.
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