Odiya Style Mustard Fish Curry

Bengali Fish Curry or Mustard Fish Curry is an everyday dish in the Bengali household. This easy tomato-based recipe. Mustard seeds as tempering spice is quite common through out India but using fresh or fermented mustard paste is limited only to the few eastern states of India. This is a very easy one pot recipe. This is a spicy dish. it is a go to recipe. we have made this recipe with a few ingredients and managed to keep Indian traditions alive with its amazing taste and concluded it in one pot challenge!

Ingredients:

• Rohu fish
• White mustard seeds
• Black mustard seeds
• 3 Tomatoes
• 1 Onion
• 3-4 Garlic cloves
• Oil

Spices:

• Salt
• Spicy red chili powder
• Kashmiri red chili powder
• Turmeric powder

• Marinate the fish.
• Add salt and 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder.
• Mix everything well.
• Keep it aside for 30-40 minutes.
• Slice 3 tomatoes.

Add the following ingredients into a Mixer or Grinder machine to get a thick paste.

• 2 tablespoon of white mustard seeds
• 4 tablespoon of black mustard seeds
• 1 chopped onion 3-4 garlic cloves
• 2-3 tablespoon of water and make a fine paste

The consistency of the paste should be as shown above.

• Heat a pot.
• Add 3-4 tablespoon of mustard oil.
• Shallow fry the fish in the mustard oil.
• Cook the fish 70-80% only.
• Once they are cooked 70-80%, take the fish pieces out.

• Add one tablespoon of oil in the same pot.
• Add black mustard seeds and let it pop.
• Add the finely sliced tomatoes and salt as per taste.
• Let the tomatoes cook well till they form a paste.
• This will take 5-7 minutes.
• Add the mustard paste that we made in step 2.
• Mix everything well and let it cook for about 4-5 minutes.

• Add 1 tablespoon of spicy chili powder.
• 1 tablespoon of Kashmiri chili powder.
• 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder.
• Mix everything well.
• Add 1 1/2 cups of water.
• Let the water boil.

• once the water starts boiling, add the fried fish to the curry
• cover and cook for 5 minutes more.

Our Odiya style mustard fish curry is ready. Garnish it with fresh coriander leaves. Serve hot and enjoy!

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