Ilish Maach Bhaja (Hilsha Fry with boiled rice)

Ilish Maach Bhaja

Its monsoon in Bengal and today seems like a typical rainy day. And also saturday,so week off for my hubby.So we decided to have ilish maach (Hilsha Fish) today. But don’t know whether we ll get a good quality of ilish maach or not.

Bengalis are very much sensitive with this fish. It’s called the king of all fishes. We just can’t control ourselves when it rains or a cold day. Well ilish has its own story attached with Bengal. Thanks to Bangladesh from where we are getting this lovely taste everywhere.

But recently the prices of ilish is growing so high, it even cant imaginable. This year I heard in maniktala market, one ilish of size 2.2 kg sold @ 3300/-. This is what I called passion for taste.

Anyway you can find many stories attached with Bengalis on net or news paper. Let’s come back to my today’s cooking plan.

Click the image for full news

My hubby went to market and as expected there is no quality sized ilish available. All are of 550-650 gm of size. As big the ilish is as tasty it ll.So nothing to do we have to go with what is available.

Finally he came back with a 650 gm ilish maach. Here I am posting a very simple but the tastiest recipe of ilish which we Bengalis love most. You can prepare so many dishes,but this one is quite simple.

Its ilish maach bhaja(FRY) with the oil came out of those fish. With rice and onion and green chili.I am still feeling the taste in my mouth. 

Let’s check out the recipe.

What elements required to make ilish maach bhaja

Preparation Time: 15 min

Ingredients: 
Ilish Maach (Hilsha fish) pieces

Salt

Turmeric powder

Pure mustard oil (I prefer Fortune Kachhi ghani)

How to make ilish maach bhaja 

It’s very simple. Heat the oil in a pan. Need to heat the oil properly so that the fish should not stick to the pan. Now mix the fish pieces with salt and turmeric powder. Then put them into the oil one by one. You can feel the aroma of ilish maach immediately after 5-10 seconds. Just gently reverse them on the pan and make them fried properly.

While frying them, you can see that oil from the fish is also coming out and this oil is too much tasty.

Now after finishing this, Just take a onion and green chili and with this oil have some boiled rice or bath. Just has a mouthful of rice with a bite of onion and fish fry, you will feel like in heaven.

This is not yet finish, We tried the famous Sorshe ilish with rest of the pieces. I ll share it next.Enjoy food.