Spicy hilsa fish head curry with vegetables

Servings: 4 | Time To Prepare: 30 minutes | Submitted By: Chitra Nag

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Ingredients

• 4, use head only Hilsa or Shad fish
• 1, medium Eggplant
• 2, large (cut each into 8 pieces) Potato
• 1, tsp Panch Phoron
• 5, sliced Green Chili
• 2, whole Whole Red Chili
• 2, tsp Turmeric powder
• 1/2, tsp Sugar
• to taste Salt
• 4, tbsp Mustard Oil
• 1/2, cup Water

Instructions

1. Cut each hilsa fish head into four pieces, remove fins and wash, Mix the pieces well with salt & one teaspoon turmeric powder and set aside.
2. Heat oil and fry the fish head pieces. Remove and set aside.
3. Add panch-phoron and whole red chili in the same hot oil and fry till light brown.
4. Add all other ingredients and cook in reduced heat for 8/10 minutes.
5. Add the fried hilsa fish head pieces. Add 1/2 cup water and cook till water dries out and well fried.
6. Serve hot with rice.

Ratings

surja (8/15/2003)….Instead of eggplant we can use Bandhacopi

papri (8/6/2003)….i tried this several times, i also added pui saag to it. it came out great.

shaanivi (7/26/2002)….great

daisyguha (5/25/2002)….this is good. me and my husband liked it very much.