Food is not just a mean to satisfy our hunger, rather it serves as an art characterised by distinct techniques with a mix of specific culture. Various factors like local ingredients, traditions, and customs get involve in the process to create a unique dish. Therefore here I present before you a very popular recipe of the Bengali households- "Rohu/Rui Paturi", prepared to relieve all from the daily toil of excavating some distinct cuisine at the dinner table to please your taste buds. Let's try our hands on this special recipe today.
Rohu/Rui Paturi...
Ingredients-
4 medium pieces of fish (Rohu/Rui)
3 tbsp - Mustard paste
1 tbsp - Poppy seeds paste
2 - Green Chillies
4 - Green Chillies to wrap.
2 tbsp - grated Coconut
1 - Lemon
2 tsp - Turmeric powder
1 tsp - Red Chilli powder
1/2 tsp - Black Pepper powder
Salt to taste
1/2 cup - Mustard Oil
Banana leaves to wrap.
Method-
In a grinder put together the mustard seeds and poppy seeds. Grind them for a time until they become like coarse powder. Now add in the 2 tbsp of the mustard oil, green chillies. Now grind them until you get a super smooth paste. Check by nabbing a little of the paste in between two fingers for its consistency. If it feels even a little bit coarse grind again. Pour this entire paste in a bowl and stir in some water to make the paste of medium consistency. Also add in another 2 tbsp of the mustard oil, salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, black pepper powder and a generous squeeze of lemon. Prepare your banana leaf. Take a sharp knife, and then cut the leaf in a sharp and smooth motion along the stem. The strong stem should be cut off nicely. Make sure not to tear the leaf at any point. Observe the leaf to measure how many portions you will need to wrap one fish. Then select a line according to that measurement and gently tear the leaf along that line. It should come off easily and smoothly. Follow this step to create other wrappers from the leaves. It’s convenient to prepare them before you start wrapping rather than doing each one of them at a time. Place one fish in the middle of the banana leaf. Spoon in 1 tbsp of the mustard paste. Rub it well all over the fish. Drizzle 1/2 tsp mustard oil over it and place some grated fresh coconut and one green chilli on top. Now wrap the leaf with the help of a thread. Take a roasting pan and drizzle some mustard oil into it. Pour in 1/4th cup of water. Mix it well and spread the oil and water all over the surface of the pan. Take some of that mix and brush that on the upper part of the envelopes of fish as well.
Place the wrapped fish into that pan one beside the other. Do not stack. Cook the wrapped fishes in it until the banana leaf starts to char. Do it in small batches and once done, take them out of the pan and keep aside. Serve hot with some steaming hot plate of rice and a generous drizzle of mustard oil.
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