Sunday 30 March 2014

Magur macher jhol / catfish curry

magur macher jhol or catfish curry
It is very much popular catfish (known as Magur) in West Bengal. Here it cooked in flevoured gravy to make it delicious.
Catfish meat helps in blood purification and help to fight against dieses.

Ingredients
Magur fish                                300 gm (6 pcs)
Garlic cloves (chopped)             6 – 7
Onion (chopped)                       1 big
Ginger paste                            1 tbsp
Cumin powder                          2 tsp
Red chilli powder                      1 tsp
Green chillies                           2 - 3
Coriander powder                     1 tsp
Turmeric powder                       2 tsp
Kashmiri mirch powder              ½ tsp
Bay leaves                               2
Potato  in cubes                       2 big
Garam masala paste                1 tsp
Salt                                         to taste
Sugar                                      1 tsp
Oil                                           3 tbsp

Method
First properly wash the fishes and marinate with turmeric powder and salt for 10 – 15 minutes.
Within this time finely chop garlic and ginger. Make paste of ginger then make smooth paste of garam masala with 2 cardamoms, 1 clove, 1 inch cinnamon.
Heat oil in wok, add fish pieces and sallow fry from both sides, remove and keep aside.
Add potato pieces and fry till light brown, remove from oil and keep aside.
In this same oil add chopped garlic then stir until light brown.
Then add chopped onion and stir until light brown then add sugar and mix well.
Add chopped tomato and stir till soft and mix well.
Add ginger paste, cumin powder, chilli powder, kashmiri mirch powder and cook until oil gets separated from masala.
cook the masala
Then add fried potatoes, bay leaves and mix well and cook for a minute.
add fried potatoes
Heat-up some water on other oven.
heat-up water
Add coriander powder into potatoes and mix well.
add coriander powder
Now add required water, salt, turmeric powder and mix well. Cover and cook for 4 – 5 minutes or until potatoes turn soft.
add hot water turmeric powder ans salt
Now add fried fishes, green chillies and again cover and cook for 2 – 3 minutes.

add fried fishes 
Open cover and add garam masala paste then mix well.
add garam masala paste and mix well
let boil the gravy then remove and pour into serving bowl.
boil before remove

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