Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, macher muro diye dal (fish head lentil curry - bengali style). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Macher muro diye dal or fish head with lentils is a specialty dal prepared with moong dal and mainly rohu fish head. Bengalis are known to eat fish in all. Machh'er matha diye bhaja moog'er dal: In the hierarchy of dals, this dal with fish head occupies the highest pedestal in Bengali cuisine.
Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have macher muro diye dal (fish head lentil curry - bengali style) using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style):
- Make ready 1/2 cup moong dal (split green gram), dry roasted
- Make ready 1 Rohu fish head, deep fried
- Make ready 1 onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp tomato paste / 1/2 cup tomato puree
- Make ready 4 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 1/2 tsp panch phoron (equal quantities of fennel, fenugreek, cumin, mustard & nigella seeds)
- Make ready 1" cinnamon
- Take 2 green cardamoms
- Get 4 cloves
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1 dry red chilli, broken into half
- Make ready 1 tbsp roasted coriander-cumin powder
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready to taste salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- Make ready 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1-2 green chilies, slit (opt)
- Prepare 1 tsp ghee
Heat a pan, add cooking oil and let it heat. In this preparation, fried Ilish Macher Muro or Matha (Hilsa fish head) is cooked with Moong dal (Yellow lentils) in spices. Yellow lentil or moog dal is one of the many dals cooked in every Bengali household. To start with moong dal can be cooked either directly boiled and sautéed with your spice of choice or roasted, boiled and then sautéed with spices.
Instructions to make Macher Muro diye Dal (Fish Head Lentil Curry - Bengali Style):
- Dry roast the moong dal (split green gram). Boil in 1 & 1/2 cups water for 4-5 whistles. When cool, whisk well along with salt and turmeric powder and keep aside.
- Deep fry the fish head after marinating with a pinch of salt & turmeric powder.
- Heat oil in a pan and temper with the panch phoron, bay leaves, dry red chilli, cardamoms, cloves and cinnamon. Saute till they stops spluttering.
- Add onion and saute till light brown.
- Add the ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander-cumin powder, tomato paste & garam masala powder mixed with 2-3 tbsp. water.
- Add the boiled dal, salt, green chilies (opt) and the fried fish head (broken into half). Add 1/2 cup more water. Simmer on medium flame till the gravy thickens a bit. When done, add ghee and mix well
- Serve hot with plain steamed rice.
The roasted version definitely tastes better, but those with digestion. Cooking Bengali Flavours - Hiran B Debnath is with Bengali Home Cooking. Fish heads (Bengalis call them "macher muro/matha" with love) are very auspicious for us. Yes, I am going to share today the recipe of "Mugger daal with Maacher Muro ". It's a special kind of lentil The fish pieces would be used in some type of fish curry but the head would go to the Mug Dal.
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