Highlight Recipe: Rohu Fish Curry

TWCT is glad to publish its highlight recipe for the day Rohu Fish Curry by the creative home chef Ms. Antara Boruah from Bangalore India. Rohu is a regional name for Indian Carp which is also a sweet water fish popular among the people from North East India. Antara has cooked rohu fish in a rich gravy of cashew nuts, hung curd, tomato,onion and some usual robust Indian spices!

Recipe Follows.

Prep time : 30 mins
Cooking time: 40 mins
Serves 4

Ingredients

1. ROHU (Indian Carp) 500 gm
2.Onions 3 big, thinly sliced.
3.Ginger Garlic paste tables spoon
4.Tomato paste (boiled and blended) 3 big
5.Curd 1/2 cup
6.Cashew paste (soaked and blended)of 5-6 cashew.
7. Coconut milk 1/2 cup
8. Five spices 1 teaspoon
9. Cardamom 2
10. Cinnamon
11. Coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon
12. Cumin Powder 1/2 teaspoon
13.Chopped coriander 
14. Green chilly paste of 4.
15.Misc: Salt+turmeric+ red chili powder

Method

Step1- Marination

• Marinate the fish with salt,turmeric and chilly paste and let it rest while preparing for the gravy.

Step 2- Gravy Preparation

• Boil the tomatoes and when done, blend it into a fine paste.
• Make a fine paste out of the soaked cashews.
• Similarly get the ginger-garlic paste, chili paste, and coconut milk ready.

Step 3 -Getting stuff on the Pan

• Fry the fish on both sides on thick bottomed deep pan till half done.
• Remove the half done fish and crackle the five spices, cardamom and cinnamon on the same pan.
• Saute the thinly sliced onion till it turns golden brown. Add in the ginger garlic and chilly paste and keep stirring till the raw smell of the spices goes away.
• Follow this with the tomato paste and the powdered cumin, coriander and turmeric powder.
• Once the tomato paste has turned into dry mixture add in the curd and let it release its oil.
• Pour in a cup of hot water and the cashew paste and bring it to a boil.
• Now add in the last gravy component; the coconut milk and simmer it on low till the gravy has come to the desired consistency.
• Place the fried fish pieces into the gravy and let it cook on simmer for a while.
• Garnish with chopped coriander or spring onions.

Bon Appetit!

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