Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, bhapa hilsa / steamed hilsa fish. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Steamed Hilsha or Bhapa Ilish is the most common Hilsha recipe and is cooked in almost all Bengali households. This preparation tastes best with fresh Hilsa. Welcome to Lusi's Recipes Channel !
Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have bhapa hilsa / steamed hilsa fish using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish:
- Take 1 kg Hilsa fish cut in ring shape
- Make ready 3 spoons mustard paste
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger paste
- Make ready 1 tsp haldi powder
- Take as required Mustard oil
- Get 1 tbsp hunk curd
- Prepare 1 tsp green chili paste
- Make ready to taste Salt & sugar according
- Prepare as required Water
Back home Hilsa/Ilish is deep fried, steamed, smoked, baked/steamed in banana leaves, cooked with mustard paste, yogurt, or combined with vegetables like brinjal/eggplant/aubergines. Spices like Nigella seeds/Kalonji/Kalo Jeera along with mustard oil is used to enhance the flavors of the this fish. Bhapa Ilish or steamed hilsa is served with plain white steamed rice. To begin making the Bhapa Ilish recipe, wash and tap dry the steaks of hilsa with a kitchen towel and set aside.
Instructions to make Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish:
- Marinate fish with salt, haldi powder and keep for 10 mins.
- In a bowl mix curd, salt, sugar, green chilli paste and 1 pinch haldi powder.
- Now heat a square microwave-safe bowl with 2 tbsp mustard oil for 2mins.
- Then add fish and add the masala paste with 1 cup of water and in a microwave oven cook for 10mis in microwave mode with temperature 90° c.
- Give some standing time gravy will become thick. This can also be done in gas oven too. In a kadai pour 2 cups of water and heat it place a steel stand inside the kadai and arrange the fish with masala paste in a steel bowl or tiffin box and keep it on the stand cover the bowl and the Kadai with a lid. Rest of the process same.
The Hilsa fish is a species of fish in the herring family which is very popular as food fish in South Asia. It is also known by many other different names such as Ilish, Hilsa herring, Hilsa Shad, Ellis, Modar, Palva, Pallo Machhi, Sboor, Terubuk etc. It is a very important species of fish in Bangladesh. Doi Ilish is a typical Bengali Hilsa Recipe, where raw Hilsa fish is steamed in Yogurt and Mustured Sauce. First take the fish, wash with little water (Hilsa should not wash thoroughly, its taste will go by washing).
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