Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sobji diye macher tok (fish with vegetable sour stew). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Macher Tok is a very popular Bengali fish curry and this has turned to be interesting with the veggies. With that said, here I present my Sobji diye Macher Tok that I prepared today and would love to see all of you trying the same at your kitchen. Sobji Diye Rui Macher Jhol is one of the most famous comfort food of Bengalis along with Hot Steaming Rice.
Sobji diye Macher Tok (Fish with Vegetable Sour Stew) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Sobji diye Macher Tok (Fish with Vegetable Sour Stew) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sobji diye macher tok (fish with vegetable sour stew) using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sobji diye Macher Tok (Fish with Vegetable Sour Stew):
- Make ready 6 pieces fish including the head (I used Rohu fish)
- Get 1 large potato, vertically sliced
- Take 12-15 flat beans, chopped
- Take 1 tomato, chopped
- Get 5 green chillies, slitted
- Make ready 2 dried red chillies
- Get 1/2 tsp whole spice blend (panch phoron)
- Get 2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder (jeera)
- Take 1 tsp coriander powder (dhaniya)
- Get 1 pinch asafoetida (hing)
- Take 3/4 cup tamarind puree (imli/tetul)
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp mustard oil
- Make ready As needed salt (according to taste)
- Prepare 3 cups warm water
You can make so many variations of this dish. Today I made it without onion and garlic. But rwhen you punch it with a dash of vegetables, then yes, it's bit different. This is my attempt to make Macher Tok in a different.
Instructions to make Sobji diye Macher Tok (Fish with Vegetable Sour Stew):
- Rub the fish pieces, including the head, with 1 tsp turmeric powder and salt.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry them till they turn golden yellow. Remove from the oil and keep aside.
- Heat oil again and shallow fry the potato and flat beans together adding 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and salt. Once the vegetable are little soft, remove from the pan and keep aside.
- In the same pan heat oil again and add panch phoron, dried red chillies and green chillies and allow then to splutter.
- Now, add tomato, 1/2 tea-spoon turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, hing and salt and stir until the tomato becomes mushy.
- Add warm water and bring it to boil.
- Now, add the vegetable and cover the lid. Lower the flame and cook for 5-7 minutes.
- Open the lid and add the fish. Give it a quick mix and cover the lid again. Lower the flame and cook for 10 minutes or until the fish gets well cooked.
- Check the consistency of the gravy. It should be a runny gravy. If you find that you gravy has thickened, add some warm water and cook for another 5-7 minutes.
- Turn off the flame and your Sobji diye Macher Tok is ready to be served now.
But rwhen you punch it with a dash of vegetables, then yes, it's bit different. Get the recipe of how to make an authentic Bengali Style Sobji Diye Bhaja Muger Dal Recipe which will make a high protein meal along with steamed rice and ghee. In winter vegetables are added to make it more nutritious. Macher Tok is a sour fish curry which is a bliss in the summer time in West Bengal. This recipe has been passed from my mother to me and probably from my grandma to her.
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