Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bhapa hilsa / steamed hilsa fish. One of my favorites. 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 ! Hi, Today I am going to show you how to make easy and quick Hilsa Bhapa, Quick, easy, healthy, tasty, delicious.
Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bhapa hilsa / steamed hilsa fish using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish:
- Prepare 1 kg Hilsa fish cut in ring shape
- Get 3 spoons mustard paste
- Make ready 1 tsp ginger paste
- Get 1 tsp haldi powder
- Take as required Mustard oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp hunk curd
- Make ready 1 tsp green chili paste
- Take to taste Salt & sugar according
- Get as required Water
Traditionally Bong ladies used to steam their Hilsa in a "Stainless Steel Tiffin Box" while making the rice in a Handi (Ha-n-ri). 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. 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.
Steps 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.
To begin making the Bhapa Ilish recipe, wash and tap dry the steaks of hilsa with a kitchen towel and set aside. 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 – Steamed Hilsa. " J unie Beatrice Jones or "Junie B." as she is called for short, is an innocent, spirited five- to six-year-old American girl". The fish roe(macher dim) is a delicacy enjoyed by the Bongs and Hilsa roe is much coveted.
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