Hilsa Fish With Mustards / Shorshelish / Patodi

This a favorite bengali steamed fish recipe, which I got from my friend Mousumi. Though I do not eat seafood I learned this for amith. He tasted it when he visited Kolkata. Ofcourse my cooking could never level it but i tried my best to make this steam fish tasty.


Ingredients

Hilsa Fish – 4 pieces
Mustard seeds – 2 tbsp
Green chillies – 6 no.
Curd – 2tbsp
Turmeric – 1/2 tsp
Mustard oil/ refined oil
Poppy seeds / khus- kus – 2tbsp (optional)
Salt to taste

Procedure:

Clean the fish and marinate it with haldi, salt.

Make a paste of mustard seeds, Green chilli (2 no.) and khus-kus. Take curd, turmeric and salt in a bowl and add the paste. Apply this mixture to the fish pieces.

Wrap the marinated fish with a slit green chilly in a banana leave. Chilli will make the fish spicy.




In a flat wok or pan, add little mustard oil or vegetable oil and fry the wrapped fish pieces for 10 minutes by turning in between.




In microwave - Brush little oil of the microwave plate and place the wrap on it. Microwave it for 15mts turning sides once in between.