Macher tortori(fish in tomato gravy). It's a very popular and common dish. It goes very well with hot steamed rice. This recipe is one of the most favorite dish of all Bengalis.
Rohu from your Bangladeshi Fish seller works very well too.
Macher Tomato Jhol Or Tomato Based Fish Stew, Tomato fish cakes, Fish curry with potato & tomato.
Whenever I find fish in menu, I become happy.
You can cook Macher tortori(fish in tomato gravy) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Macher tortori(fish in tomato gravy)
- It's 250 grams of sumai fish cleaned and washed.
- You need 1 of onion.
- Prepare 5-6 cloves of garlic.
- Prepare 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
- Prepare To taste of salt.
- Prepare as required of oil.
- Prepare 1-2 of tomatoes.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Cumin seeds.
- You need some of coriander leaves and green chillies.
And this is so obvious, we Bengalies are true fish lovers. That's why we are called 'Mache Bhate Bangali'. This cod in tomato sauce is flaky and juicy. This recipe came about from my husband's craving for the canned sardines he ate growing up in Ukraine.
Macher tortori(fish in tomato gravy) instructions
- Grind together onion, garlic and Cumin seeds..
- Heat oil in a pan add the grinded paste..
- Now add turmeric powder and salt and chilli powder.
- Once the masala leaves the oil add tomatoes and let it cook then add fish and lower the flame..
- Once the fish is done add coriander leaves and green chillies.
- Goes well with steam rice..
My husband has been asking me to make fish in tomato sauce for some time. He wanted it to taste like the canned sardines in tomato sauce that he. Fish cooked in a thick gravy of onion, ginger, garlic, tomato and curd giving an authentic Bengali flavour. Add ginger garlic paste, green chillies, and tomatoes, cumin powder, coriander powder, chilly powder and water, lid on cook this for some time. Fish Makhani is creamy, tangy and very yummy!