Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bhapa iilish ❤️. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This particular recipe is very delicate preparation at all Bengali household. Here it is cooked in a pressure cooker and that will help to keep the flavor. Bhapa Ilish or steamed Hilsa is a signature Bengali fish preparation where Hilsa Fish or Ilish Maach is steamed along with spices and ended on a mouth-watering fish curry.
Bhapa Iilish ❤️ is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Bhapa Iilish ❤️ is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have bhapa iilish ❤️ using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bhapa Iilish ❤️:
- Get Half Kg or 500 gms. Hilsa Fish cut into "Bengali Cuts"
- Get 3 tbsp mustard seeds
- Prepare 3 tbsp poppy seeds or khus-khus
- Get 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Prepare Water as required
- Get to taste Salt
- Get Turmeric powder
- Take 2 slit green chillies
- Prepare 1 tbsp hung curd (optional)
To begin making the Bhapa Ilish recipe, wash and tap dry the steaks of hilsa with a kitchen towel and set. Bhapa Ilish/Steamed Fish in Mustard Yogurt Sauce. Bhapa ilish is basically steamed hilsa fish that has been cooked with mustard sauce. This dish is a Bengali delicacy that most people love.
Steps to make Bhapa Iilish ❤️:
- Firstly take a bowl, add the mustard seeds, poppy seeds and soak it with 3 tbsp of water for an hour. Now wash all the fish pieces properly. Apply some turmeric & salt all over it and coat them well. Keep it aside.
- After 1 hour, add the mustard & poppy seeds, half tsp turmeric powder, salt, curd into a blender, add 2 tbsp of water and blend it into a smooth paste. Rest the mixture for about 15 mins. or else if you put this mixture directly for cooking, just after grinding, the mixture will become bitter in taste. So resting becomes an important part of this dish..
- Now take a steel tiffin and put the fish pieces in it. Now add the mustard paste to it, now add some salt, if required, turmeric powder, 1 tbsp mustard oil, slit green chillies and mix everything well. Now again pour a tbsp of mustard oil. Cover the tiffin.
- Take a cooker, add some water into, place a stand inside it. Now place the tiffin over it. Now remove the rubber and whistles from the cooker & cover the cooker and steam it on a low flame for 25 to 30 mins. Let it cool down completely then carefully open the tiffin.
- Your "Bhapa Iilish" is now ready. Serve it hot with steam rice..
But as the festival for son in laws. Comments posted by users for Bengali Recipes - Bhapa Ilish (Steamed Ilish) recipe Play. Ilish is a very delicate fish. It should be handled very carefully. My mother would never let us touch the fish when brought home.
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