
This is though not an authentic Bengali preparation but very commonly cooked by the Bengalis. It is tasty and easy to cook as cooked with all readily available ingredients. You can use Curry Leaf to give it a different flavor.
Serving Size: 3
Cooking Time: 40 mins
Ingredients :
- 250 gm Rohu Fish
- 1Bay leaf
- Cumin Seed
- Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1 Tomato
- 1 Onion
- 1 Dried Red Chilly
- 2 Green Chilly
- Turmeric Powder
- 2 tbsp Fish Masala
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- Salt
- Sugar
- Curry Leaf
- Mustard Oil
Cooking procedure:
Chop onion , green chilly and tomato.
Marinate fish with salt and turmeric powder.

Heat oil in non stick kadai and shallow fry the fish. I fry little bit well for this recipe than when I make plain jhol recipe.Keep aside the fish pieces.
Put rest of the oil in the kadai and put the sugar for caramelizing. Put bay leaves and cumin to crackle in oil. Add chopped onion , green chilly until it turns brown . Then add Ginger Garlic paste .Stir it for 30 sec.
Fry all the masala for 1 min and add finely chopped tomatoes. Add water and continuously stir it to smash the tomatoes.Add fish pieces into it for boiling and let it simmer for few minutes. Add the curry leaf and boil it for 3 mins .
Serving Suggestions:
Serve hot with Basmati rice.
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R u insane to add curry leaves in Bengali dish??? They will puke if they happen to eat it even by mistake.
Ya. I know. I mentioned it as optional. You’ll find the curry leaves used in many Kolkata restaurant but they take it out before serving it.