Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, fish kalia. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gently massage the fish and keep it aside. Fish Kalia is a traditional Bengali recipe, which uses pungent mustard oil as the flavouring agent in this curry. It is a spicy and rich curry recipe, which is delicious and very easy-to-make. This lip-smacking fish recipe is generally consumed with steamed rice.
Fish Kalia is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Fish Kalia is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have fish kalia using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Fish Kalia:
- Take 500 g rohu fish (cut into round pieces)
- Make ready 2 potatoes boiled, peeled & quarteted
- Make ready 1 onion chopped
- Get 1 tomato chopped
- Make ready 2 tbsp onion paste
- Get 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Get 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Get 1 tsp garam masala powder
- Take 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
- Prepare 1 tbsp curd
- Prepare To taste salt
- Take 3 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 1 tsp sugar
Bengali garam masala is a combination of cloves, green cardamom and cinnamon in equal measures. There is no need to roast the spices. Kalia is a spicy fish curry loved for its superb taste. Large and mature Carp or Hilsa fish should be selected for this preparation as the fat and oil from such fishes add to the taste.
Steps to make Fish Kalia:
- To start with, wash the fish well and marinate with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and salt. Keep aside for 20 minutes.
- Heat a nonstick frying pan with 2 tbsp oil. Spread it evenly. Gently place the fish pieces and shallow fry them from both sides until golden brown on a low medium heat.
- In another pan heat remaining oil. Add in 1 tsp sugar. When sugar starts to caramelize, add chopped onion. Fry onion till brown. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder and saute for few seconds. Add onion paste, ginger garlic paste, cumin powder, coriander powder and saute for a while. Add chopped tomato, coriander leaves and salt. Cook till tomato is soft and mushy.
- Next add the whipped curd and mix well. Cook for a couple of minutes until oil separates from the mixture.
- Now add potatoes and saute for a minute or two. Then add one and half cup of water, cover and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Then add the fried fish pieces and cook covered for 5-7 minutes on a medium flame till the curry reaches a desired consistency.
- Finally add the garam masala powder and few chopped coriander leaves. Cover and turn off the flame.
- Serve Fish Kalia hot with steamed or plain rice.
Kalia is a spicy fish curry loved for its superb taste. Large and mature Carp or Hilsa fish should be selected for this preparation as the fat and oil from such fishes add to the taste. We have used grass carp, a fish common in eastern regions of India and Bengal as also in many other parts of the world. Wash and rub with salt and ground turmeric. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat and brown fish pieces.
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