Bengali fish curry (Aloo Begun Bori diye macher jhol)
Bengali fish curry (Aloo Begun Bori diye macher jhol)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, bengali fish curry (aloo begun bori diye macher jhol). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Alu Begun diye Rui Macher Jhol A very light Bengali fish curry, that doesn't call for onion or tomato. Just potato, eggplant and few mild spices is all it needs to prepare this Macher.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have bengali fish curry (aloo begun bori diye macher jhol) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bengali fish curry (Aloo Begun Bori diye macher jhol):
  1. Get Potatoes - 2 (mideum pieces)
  2. Prepare Brinjal/eggplant - 2 cut into pieces
  3. Take Badi/Bodi (lentil dumpling) - as required
  4. Make ready 1 tsp Nigella seeds (Kalo jeera)
  5. Prepare Green chillies - 4/5 (add less for spice)
  6. Take Fish (Rohu fish) - 8 pieces approx half Kg
  7. Prepare 1 tsp Corrinader powder
  8. Get 3 tsp Turmeric powder
  9. Get 1 tsp Red chilli powder
  10. Take 1/2 tsp Nigella powder
  11. Take 1-2 cups Water
  12. Take Salt
  13. Take Refined oil

Reviews for: Photos of Machhere Jhol (Bengali Fish Curry). Fish curry is famous and one of the favorite in Bengalis. The most popular dish in East & West Bengal "Machher Jhol". The most common fish to prepare fish curry (Machher Jhol) is Rohu* (a kind of fresh water carp) or Rui Maach.

Steps to make Bengali fish curry (Aloo Begun Bori diye macher jhol):
  1. Wash fish pieces thoroughly in water, marinate in turmeric powder and salt. Fry all the pieces. Take out and keep aside.
  2. Fry the Badi slowly at low till golden brown, take out and keep aside on another Bowl.
  3. Now add nigella /Kalaunji/Kalo jeera seeds to the above oil for the Phoron/Tadka sauté them, add potatoes, Brinjal/eggplant pieces and add salt fry at low for atleast 5-7 mints stiring in between for even frying.
  4. Add turmeric & red chilli powder, corrinader powder to the above, add Fish,water slowly, slit Green chillies in between, Add badi/bodi and chillies to the above gravy.
  5. Cover and cook for atleast 10- 15 mints at med-low or till the potatoes are soft. The brinjals will cook before potatoes, If you feel, you can add them at the time of mixing in water.
  6. Now add finely nigella powder. Cooked for 30 seconds again.
  7. This is a wonderful recipe to cook Rohu fish or Pona mach. We served it with warm cooked rice.

If Rohu fish is not available in your area, you can use Katla Maach. Macher Jhol refers to fish curry in Bengali and there are countless different ways fish curry can be prepared. What I am sharing today is the simplest version of a Bengali fish curry using salmon. This way even if you can't find the authentic lake water fish, you will still get to enjoy Bengali style Macher. Aloo chara (without) or Aloo diye pork er jhol (with Potato)!

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