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Ingredients:
1 kg fish (r0hu or katla) and 1/2 kg lotus stems.
300 ml mustard oil.
1 tea spoon haldi (turmeric powder).
3 table spoons saunf powder (fennel).
2 table spoons kashmiri mirch.
5-7 laung half crushed (cloves).
4 crushed moti elaichi (black cardamom).
1/4 tea spoon hing (asafoetida).
1 tea spoon zeera (Cumin).
2 tea spoons half crushed ajwain (Carom Seeds) .
4-5 saaboot laal mirchi (red chilies ).
Methods:
Wash the fish, drain off the excess water and
spread each piece of fish on a sheet of paper (newspaper/ blotting paper) and
let it dry for half an hour so as to avoid the loss of oil during frying.
Now layer with 1/2 spoon of salt and turmeric evenly.
Put about 300 ml mustard oil in a big pan, heat it till
smoke appears.
Put 4-5 pieces of fish at a time for deep-frying.
As soon as the fish tuns dark brown remove them. Fry all the pieces
in the same way.
Fry the lotus stems in the same manner.
Remove the pan from the flame.
Now bring a big patila in which the fish is to be cooked.
Put one and a half litre of water in patila,
add saunf powder, haldi powder, saunth, ajwain, saaboot mirchi, crushed
elaichi, fried fish and salt to taste.
Put the pan on low flame. Add hing, zeera, half
crushed cloves and kashmiri mirch in the oil and start stirring.
Put 50 ml of
water and stir again till maroon colour appears.
Add whole contents of pan in the patila and let it boil
on a full flame for five minutes and after that let it cook on a low flame for
another half an hour, after that remove the lid and let it cool for sometime.
Relish it with white boiled rice.
