Category: Fish Items

Like tandoori chicken, today we are going to make tandoori fish in the oven. If you cooked in the oven, you will get a feel similar to tandoor cooked. So here in this recipe, we will learn how to marinate and cook the tandoori fish.
As we know that fish is a very healthy and tasty seafood that every non-vegetarian must eat at least once for 2 weeks. This is also good for children in their middle age.

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg fish cut into 1-inch pieces
• For the Marinade
• 8 Garlic cloves
• 50gm Coriander leaves
• a medium piece of Ginger
• 2tbsp Lime juice
• 1tbsp grated Lime zest
• 1tbsp Kashmiri red chili powder
• ½tsp Cumin powder
• 1/2tbsp Garam masala
• 1 ½tsp salt
• 50ml Refined vegetable oil
• 1tbsp Gram flour
• 100gm hung yogurt
• For the chutney
• 100gm coriander leaves
• 2 Green chilies
• 4 garlic cloves
• 2tbsp lemon juice
• ½tsp salt
• 1tbsp yogurt

Directions

• Make a fine paste with half the oil, garlic, coriander, ginger, lime juice and zest, Kashmir red chili powder, cumin powder, garam masala, and salt.
• Heat the remaining oil in a pan and add the gram flour, stirring to make a paste, and cook for about 1 minute till fragrant and lightly colored.
• Add the mixture to the spice paste and combine with the yogurt. Mix well all the ingredients for the marinade.
  Gently rub the marinade over the fish pieces and marinate for 1 hour.
  Preheat the oven to 200°C. Spread out the marinated fish in a baking dish.
  Cook for 10-15 minutes on the top rack turning the fish pieces once. Baste once or twice during cooking.

For the chutney

Make a fine paste of all the ingredients in the blender.
Serve hot fish with chutney and onion rings.

Bengali fish curry recipe is a famous recipe in the state of West Bengal, India as well as in North India. Here you will learn how to make Bengali fish curry in a few simple steps.

Ingredients

• 2 tblsps. of lemon juice
• 2 tbsps. of mustard oil for frying
• 8 fish pieces
• 1 tblsp of red chili powder
• 4 red whole chilies
• 1 tsp of mustard paste
• 1 tsp of turmeric powder
• 4 vertically sliced green chilies
• 2 tblsp of coriander powder
• 1 tblsp of garlic paste
• 1 tsp of mustard seeds
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 cup of chopped onions
• 1 tblsp of ginger paste
• 1 tsp of turmeric powder
• 1 tsp of onion seeds
• salt to taste

Directions

Take the fish pieces in a bowl, clean and wash thoroughly, remove excess water and mix with lime juice, turmeric powder, and salt. Keep aside for 40 mins.

Now in a pan put one tsbp of oil and heat it, then fry the fish pieces one by one on both sides, until golden brown color. After that take it out and keep it aside.

Heat the remaining oil, pour the mustard seeds, onion seeds, red chilies, and bay leaf, and stir the fry for a few minutes till the seeds crackle, then mix ginger – garlic paste and stir the fry again for a moment.

Add the chopped onions and stir the fry until the onions turn a golden brown color.

Then add mustard paste, red chili powder, coriander powder, and turmeric powder and stir the fry until the oil starts separating from the fry.

Now add water and salt to taste to the fry and bring to a boil, then add the fried fish pieces, also add green chili slices to the fry.
Stir the fry on a slow flame until the fish pieces get cooked and the oil starts floating on top of the gravy.

Finally, take the curry into a bowl and decorate it with green coriander leaves.
The spicy and tasty Bengali fish curry to serve.