Saturday, July 16, 2011

Sorshe Ilish ( Hilsha in Mustard Gravy)

I am back with another recipe of my favourite ilish maach. The most popular sorshe ilish (ilish in mustard gravy).
I have kept four big pieces of ilish aside for this recipe. Day time went well with ilish fry and oil and other stuffs. Now for the dinner we are ready with sorshe ilish recipe.

You can prepare sorshe ilish very easily with the sorshe powder available in market. The recipe is also mentioned in the packet. But I prefer to prepare this recipe in my style.

Let me tell you how you can prepare this at home within a very short period of time.


Preparation Time: 45 min
Ingredients: Raw Mustard (Sorshe)
                     Two big onions finely chopped
                     4 pieces of ilish maach (as I kept only four)
                     Slit 3 green chilis
                     2 green chilis finely chopped
                     Jeera  powder
                     Ginger paste
                     2 tbsp of mustard oil
                     Salt to taste
                     Lemon juice( Preferably Gandharaj Lebu)  to enhance the taste

Procedure:  First of all marinate the 4 pieces of ilish with turmeric powder, salt and lemon juice and keep in refrigerator for 1 hour. So that they can mix properly. After this is done, in a steel bowl  first put the chopped onions mixed with a bit of salt. Keep the onions like first layer in the bowl. Then put the fish pieces over the onions.

Next grind the raw mustard in mixer and mix jeera powder, 1 tsp ginger paste and 2 chopped green chilis. Mix them properly and make a thick paste.

Now put this paste over the fishes and spread them properly. 

After that spread 2 tbsp of mustard oil over this & put the slit chilis over them.  

Now this is ready for cook.


Now you can put this bowl in a oven or do the same thing in a pressure cooker. I did the cooking in a pressure cooker. 

Close the cooker cover and remove the whistle nob. And cook for 40 min in low heat.

After 40 min open the cover and you can feel the aroma of the real sorshe ilish.

Have that with boiled rice. It’s  just awesome.

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