Boiled fish curry - Assamese Style

This dish is again I have learnt from my mother. Even now whenever I visit Assam , I request her specially to cook this for me.

 

This dish is a speciality of Assam as well as Bengal where the fish need not to be fried to make the curry. This dish has a great flavour with lots of onion , garlic, ginger ,crushed pepper..Usually this is made with Ilish fish but other fishes like rohu also goes well.

 

Ingredients:

 

Rohu Fish: 3 pieces

Grated Onion : 1 big sized

Grated ginger: 2 tsp

Grated garlic : 2tsp

Crushed black pepper: 1 tsp

Black pepper corn: 5-6

Salt to taste

Green Chillies: 2-3 (Slits in between)

Mustard oil : 3 tbsp.

Water as required

 

 Method:

 

Clean and wash the fish pieces properly. In a mixing bowl add onion, ginger , garlic, crushed pepper, pepper corn, salt, chillies and the fish pieces and mix well so that all the ingredients coat the fish pieces. Now to this pour the mustard oil and mix. Transfer this mixture to a pressure cooker and add water (limited quanity of water is required to boil this else the curry will be very runny which we do not want it to attain). Pressure cook upto 3 whistles. Let the cooker release its pressure on its own.

 

Transfer this boiled fish curry to a hot kadhai /pan and bring it to boil for about 2 minutes and put the flame off . Transfer this curry to a serving bowl and throw in the remaining slits of chillies into the curry and serve hot with rice