Sometime I like to cook non-everyday food by myself.Kept my wife aside and cooked the Tangra masala.Pros was that I got appreciation from her,but cons was she want me cook the tangra fish always whenever possible. 🙁

Recipe is as follows.

Ingredients :

  1. Tangra Fish

  2. Mustard oil

  3. Onions – finely chopped

  4. Green chilies – Slit lengthwise from the middle

  5. Ginger-Garlic paste

  6. Coriander leaves

  7. Tomato – Finely chopped

  8. Cumin, Coriander, Red-chilly and Garam-Masala powder

  9. Posto seed (Poppy Seeds) OR Suji (Semolina) – whole, not paste

  10. Groundnut – paste

  11. Salt and sugar to taste

Method : Heat mustard oil in a pan, fry the fishes with turmeric powder and salt. Keep aside the fried fishes and add the finely chopped onions, tomatoes, ginger-garlic paste into the heated oil. Mix sugar (optional). Once golden-brown, add to it the green-chillies, cumin-coriander-red chilly powders also salt (save the garam-masala powder till the end) followed by the groundnut paste, coriander leaves. Fry till you get the aroma coming.Add the fish and mix the gravy.add some water.Next sprinkle the posto/suji. Fry a little more and then mix water(very little). Simmer for another 5 mins and add the garam-masala powder before switching off the burner. You are done.
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