Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, macher muro diye dal (fish head lentil curry - bengali style). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Macher muro diye dal or fish head with lentils is a specialty dal prepared with moong dal and mainly rohu fish head. Bengalis are known to eat fish in all. Machh'er matha diye bhaja moog'er dal: In the hierarchy of dals, this dal with fish head occupies the highest pedestal in Bengali cuisine.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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):
- Prepare 1/2 cup moong dal (split green gram), dry roasted
- Prepare 1 Rohu fish head, deep fried
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped
- Make ready 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp tomato paste / 1/2 cup tomato puree
- Prepare 4 tbsp mustard oil
- Prepare 1/2 tsp panch phoron (equal quantities of fennel, fenugreek, cumin, mustard & nigella seeds)
- Make ready 1" cinnamon
- Make ready 2 green cardamoms
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1 dry red chilli, broken into half
- Prepare 1 tbsp roasted coriander-cumin powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take to taste salt
- Get 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Take 1-2 green chilies, slit (opt)
- Get 1 tsp ghee
In this preparation, fried Ilish Macher Muro or Matha (Hilsa fish head) is cooked with Moong dal (Yellow lentils) in spices. Yellow lentil or moog dal is one of the many dals cooked in every Bengali household. To start with moong dal can be cooked either directly boiled and sautéed with your spice of choice or roasted, boiled and then sautéed with spices. The roasted version definitely tastes better, but those with digestion.
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.
Cooking Bengali Flavours - Hiran B Debnath is with Bengali Home Cooking. I never concocted Chana dal with rohu head until I got the recipe of Sadhana Mukherjee in hand. Bengali Macher Matha diye Dal-Fish Head with Yellow Lentil-Fish Head Curry. Fish heads (Bengalis call them "macher muro/matha" with love) are very auspicious for us. Yes, I am going to share today the recipe of "Mugger daal with Maacher Muro ".
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