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oi-Suparna Chakaraborthy

By Suparna Chakaraborthy

Thursday, April 15, 2010, 9:43

As everyone of us are aware, Bengali's are fish addicts and thus they are the one's who have the best fish preparations. One of them is the fish kalia also known as macher kalia. It is a spicy fish curry generally teamed with rice and is the served in the main course. Lets look at the fish kalia recipe.

Ingredients

Rohu Fish Pieces – 6
Chopped Tomato – 1
Onion paste - 3 tbsp
Ginger Garlic paste – 2 tsp
Ginger chopped – small piece
Green chillies – 5
Turmeric powder - ' tsp
Jeera Powder – 2 tbsp
Dhania Powder – 2 tbsp
Tej Pata – 2
Elaichi – 5
Yogurt – 3 tbsp
Salt – Taste
Oil – As needed

Method

Wash the fish and pat dry.
Mix the fish with turmeric and salt.
Fry the fish and set aside
In the same oil, put tej pata and elaichi.
When they start crackling, add onion and ginger garlic paste.
When the onion is brown in colour, add tomatoes.
Saute it till it becomes a fine pulp.
Put jeera, dhania powder and mix grated ginger with yougurt and mix in the masala.
Put a bit of turmeric power, salt and water.
When the gravy comes to a boil, add the fried fish pieces
and keep it for 5 more mints.
Serve it with coriander garnishing.