Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils)
Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils)

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MURI GHONTO is an authentic fish dish for a Bengali. Being a Bengali, I have always loved fish and Muri Ghonto is among my favourite fish dishes. We grew up eating fish (maach in Bengali) almost everyday. Fish, meat and eggs (also onion and garlic) were only restricted on Thursdays due to religious reasons.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook muri ghonto (fish head curry with lentils) using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils):
  1. Prepare 2 catla/rohu fish head
  2. Get 2/3 cup moong dal
  3. Take 1 small onion
  4. Get Half tomato
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
  6. Prepare 1 tsp coriander-cumin powder
  7. Prepare as required Turmeric powder
  8. Take to taste Salt
  9. Take 1-2 slit green chillies
  10. Take 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
  11. Prepare 1 tsp ghee
  12. Make ready as required Oil
  13. Get 1 tsp sugar
  14. Take as needed Khada garam masalas
  15. Make ready 1/2 tsp sabut jeera
  16. Make ready 1 dried red chilli, a bay leaf
  17. Get 1 pinch hing

In this recipe, crispy fried fish head is cooked with rice and potatoes in some specific spices. The word 'Muri' stands for fish head and 'Ghonto' means mushy curry. It is a perfect side to accompany with piping hot Steamed Rice. Hello friends, Welcome to Tweak The Taste.

Steps to make Muri Ghonto (Fish head curry with lentils):
  1. Wash the fish head properly & add salt and turmeric powder to it, coat them well. Now heat a pan, add oil in it and shallow fry the heads properly.
  2. Till the time the head pieces gets fried, take another pan or kadai & dry roast the dal for about 2 mins then immediately remove it from the kadai or else the dal may get burnt. Then boil the dal for 3 to 4 whistles.
  3. Now when the fish-head gets fried, remove them in a plate, now break them into large pieces as shown in the image. Don't break into small pieces, otherwise the fish bones will completely get mixed with the dal. Now keep it aside.
  4. Now in the same pan add sum more oil if required. Heat the oil & put sabut jeera, khada garam masalas, bay leaf, dried red chilli. Now when it starts spluttering, add a pinch of hing. Now add onion, tomato pieces, slit green chillies, ginger-garlic paste. Then add coriander-cumin powder, turmeric powder, salt sugar and fry everything well.
  5. When it's half done, add the fish head pieces into it & fry them with the masalas untill oil starts seperating from the masalas. Now add the boiled dal into it, then cover it & cook it in a low flame for about 5 to 7 mins. At last add garam masala powder and a tsp of ghee to it and serve hot with rice.

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