Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bhapa hilsa / steamed hilsa fish. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish is something which I have loved my whole life.
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 !
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bhapa hilsa / steamed hilsa fish using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bhapa Hilsa / steamed Hilsa fish:
- Prepare 1 kg Hilsa fish cut in ring shape
- Take 3 spoons mustard paste
- Get 1 tsp ginger paste
- Take 1 tsp haldi powder
- Prepare as required Mustard oil
- Take 1 tbsp hunk curd
- Get 1 tsp green chili paste
- Get 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. Hilsa or Ilish is the most popular fish for Bengalis.
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.
This is the national fish of Bangladesh. Bengalis wait throughout the year and look forward to the rainy Nowadays Hilsa is not so pocket friendly but the positive thing is that this fish is very light weight. Bhapa Ilish or steamed hilsa is one of the most. 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.
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