Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style)
by Georgie Ballard
Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style)
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have macher muro diye dal (fish head lentil curry - bengali style) using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style):
Get moong dal (split green gram), dry roasted
Get Rohu fish head, deep fried
Get onion, chopped
Prepare ginger-garlic paste
Prepare tomato paste / 1/2 cup tomato puree
Prepare mustard oil
Take panch phoron (equal quantities of fennel, fenugreek, cumin, mustard & nigella seeds)
Make ready cinnamon
Take green cardamoms
Take cloves
Prepare bay leaves
Prepare dry red chilli, broken into half
Take roasted coriander-cumin powder
Take turmeric powder
Take salt
Take garam masala powder
Get red chilli powder
Make ready green chilies, slit (opt)
Prepare ghee
Instructions to make Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style):
Dry roast the moong dal (split green gram). Boil in 1 & 1/2 cups water for 4-5 whistles. When cool, whisk well along with salt and turmeric powder and keep aside.
Deep fry the fish head after marinating with a pinch of salt & turmeric powder.
Heat oil in a pan and temper with the panch phoron, bay leaves, dry red chilli, cardamoms, cloves and cinnamon. Saute till they stops spluttering.
Add onion and saute till light brown.
Add the ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander-cumin powder, tomato paste & garam masala powder mixed with 2-3 tbsp. water.
Add the boiled dal, salt, green chilies (opt) and the fried fish head (broken into half). Add 1/2 cup more water. Simmer on medium flame till the gravy thickens a bit. When done, add ghee and mix well
Serve hot with plain steamed rice.
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