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== Bengali Doi Maach Recipe or Fish Curry ==

Fish prepared in a mixture of spices is cooked in curd. Talking about its curry, it is slightly pungent and spicy. The fish absorb curd and spices during the time of preparation and become very soft and tasty.

=== Ingredients for Preparing Bengali Doi Maach: === Curd is used by Bengali while preparing the Delicious Dish Doi maach. Yogurt in Bengali is called doi. Apart from this, red chilies, green chilies, ginger-garlic paste, cumin, cinnamon and bay leaves are added. Mustard oil is used to makes your dish tastier.

=== How to serve Bengali Doi Maach: === Lemon juice is added to it while serving. You can serve it with boiled rice if you want.

=== Ingredient for Preparing Bengali Doi Maach: ===
 * 1 kg rohu or rovas fish or any freshwater fish (cut into pieces and clean it with water).

=== Ingredients to Prepare Curry: ===
 * 2 Tablespoons Mustard oil (Sarso/Rai ka tel)
 * 1 Bay Leaf (Tez Patta)Half Inch Cinnamon Powder (Daalchini)
 * 4 Cloves (Laung)
 * 4-5 Green Cardamom (Hari Elaichi)
 * 1/2 Tsp Cumin Seeds (Jeera)
 * 1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi Powder)
 * 1 Tsp Red Chilli Powder (Chili Powder)
 * 2 Tsp Ginger-Garlic Paste (Adrak- Lahsun Paste)
 * 1 (prepare the paste)
 * 1/2 kg Curd, Whisked (Dahi)
 * Salt to taste (Namak)

=== Ingredients to Prepare the Fish Mixture ===
 * 1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi powder)
 * 4 Tsp Red Chilli Powder (Mirchi powder)
 * Salt (Namak)
 * 2 Tsp Mustard Oil (Sarso/Rai ka tel)

=== Steps of Preparing the Bengali Doi Maach ===
 * Add 1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder, 4 Tsp Red Chilli Powder, 2 Tsp Mustard Oil and salt (as per taste) in a bowl and mix it well.
 * Apply this mixture on the fish.
 * Cover it and keep aside for 15 minutes.
 * Now, beat curd in a bowl and mix turmeric and red chili powder with it. Keep it aside too.
 * To fry the fish, heat the pan and add two tablespoons of mustard oil. Heat the oil until smoke starts coming out of it.
 * When the oil is hot, add fish to it.
 * Fry it well on both sides until light brown.
 * When the fish turns brown, take it out on a plate. Keep it aside.
 * Heat the same pan with mustard oil again.
 * When the oil is hot, add all the spices mentioned above in the “Ingredients to prepare curry” and fry it on a low flame.
 * When the spices start changing their color, add onion paste and fry it.
 * When the onion turns light brown, add ginger-garlic paste to it. You can also add some water to it.
 * Keep the flame on medium heat.
 * Then add curd to the pan. Add the mixture lightly and leave it to cook on a low flame for 10 to 15 minutes.
 * Cook until the color of the mixture becomes mustard-golden-yellow. Then add salt to it.
 * After this, add fish pieces to it.
 * Cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
 * When the oil comes over the fish and the fish is cooked completely, turn off the heat.
 * While serving, add lemon juice over it.
 * Finally serve the prepared doi maach with boiled rice.

=== Key Ingredients: === Turmeric powder, red chili powder, salt, mustard oil, mustard oil, bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom, cumin, ginger-garlic paste, onion, curd, salt.