Gondhoraj Ilish Recipe/ Hilsa fish recipe with Gondhoraj lemon is a Hilsa fish cooked with the Gondhoraj lemon zest and juice to make the recipe a legend. While cutting the lemon it engulfs your whole kitchen, and while cooking with the Hilsa all the nearby neighbors will come to know, something great preparation is going on.
The types of equipment used for this recipe are
- Knife
- Blender
- Kadai/Fry pan
- Spatula
The ingredients required for this recipe are
- Hilsa/ Ilish fish-320 gm (80 gm each)
- Gondhoraj Lebu-1
- Mustard oil-4 tbsp
- Kalojire/nigella seeds-1/2 tbsp
- Green chillies-4
- Turmeric powder-1 tbsp
- Soaked mustard seeds-3 tbsp
- Salt
How to make Gondhoraj Ilish Recipe
Take a bigger size Gondhoraj Lebo, take out the zest, and keep them aside
Clean and wash the Hilsa fish, and sprinkle the lemon juice over them
Add salt and turmeric powder, rub the fish chunks, and keep them aside for 15 minutes
Take a blender jar, add the soaked mustard seeds and 2 green chilies, and make a smooth paste
Add salt and turmeric powder in it and mix them well
Heat mustard oil in a pan and gently drop the fish chunks, and fry them
Turn them over to another side, once fried on one side (don’t over-fry them), fry both the side, take them out from the pan, and keep them aside
Add Kalojire/ nigella seeds and green chili in the same hot oil for tempering
As they splutter and sizzle, add the mustard seeds paste with water (by washing the blender jar), and mix them well
Now add the lemon zest, and mix them
Gently drop the fried fish chunks and mix them well, and cook them for 2 minutes
Sprinkle lemon juice over the fish curry, and mix them
Transfer them to a serving plate and serve hot with hot piping rice
Gondhoraj Ilish Recipe
Equipment
- A kadai or a fry pan
- Spatula
- knife
- blender
Ingredients
- 320 gm Ilish mach or hilsa fish
- 1 Gondhraj lebu / lemon
- 4 tbsp Mustard oil
- 3 tbsp soaked mustsrd seeds
- 1/2 tbsp kalo jeera (nigellaseeds)
- 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- 4 green chili
- salt
Instructions
- Take a bigger size Gondhoraj Lebo, and take out the zest,and keep them aside
- Clean and wash the Hilsa fish, and sprinkle the lemon juiceover them
- Add salt and turmeric powder, and rub the fish chunks, andkeep them aside for 15 minutes
- Take a blender jar, and add the soaked mustard seeds and 2green chilies, and make a smooth paste
- Add salt and turmeric powder in it and mix them well
- Heat mustard oil in a pan and gently drop the fish chunks,and fry them
- Turn them over to other side, once fried one side (don’t over fry them); and fry both the side, and take them out from the pan and keepthem aside
- Add Kalojire/ nigella seeds and green chili in the same hotoil for tempering
- As they splutter and sizzle, add the mustard seeds pastewith water (by washing the blender jar), and mix them well
- Now add the lemon zest, and mix them
- Gently drop the fried fish chunks and mix them well, andcook them for 2 minutes
- Sprinkle lemon juice over the fish curry, and mix them
- Transfer them to a serving plate and serve hot with hotpiping rice