Fish Curry with Cauliflower and Potato (Bengali Style)

Fish Curry is the most favorite in Bengal. There are thousands of ways to cook fish. Here is one of the common fish curry recipe in Bengal. Try this and let me know if you like it.  Please rate and comment on my video; also subscribe to my website/ channel for regular updates.

Preparation Time:
10 minutes

Cooking Time:
30 minutes

Ingredients:

Fish : 4 pieces (I have used tilapia, you can use rohu or katla also)

Potato : 1 medium size cut into small pieces

Cauliflower : 4 medium size pieces

Onion : 1 medium size sliced

Tomato : 1 small size sliced

Green chili : 1 pieces cut into half

Cilantro : 1 small bunch for garnishing

Cooking oil : 5 tea spoon

Ginger garlic paste : 1 tea spoon

Panch Phoron : 1/2 tea spoon (fenugreek, mustard, kalonji, fennel & cumin)

Turmeric powder : 1/4 tea spoon

Cumin powder : 1 tea spoon

Coriander powder : 1 tea spoon

Chili powder : 1/2 tea spoon

Whole Garam Masala : cinnamon (1 piece), cloves (2 pieces) and cardamom (2 pieces) grinded  

Salt : to taste

Sugar : to taste

Method:

1. Get fish pieces into a bowl. Mix little salt and pinch of turmeric powder with it.
2. On the oven heat a frying pan and add 2 and 1/ 2 tea spoons oil on it.
3. When the oil is hot, put fish pieces on the pan to fry.  
4. When the side is brown color, it is fried, flip them to fry the other side.
5. Pick fired fish pieces from the pan and keep separately. 
6. There will be some oil left on the pan to fry potato and cauliflower slightly. Add them on the pan. If the color is brown then the side is done, flip the other side to fry.
7. Keep fried potato and cauliflower separately.
8. Put a bigger pan on the oven for the curry. 
9. When the pan is hot, add remaining 2 and 1/ 2 spoons oil. 
10. Now when the oil is little hot, add panch phoron on the oil. 
11. Mix panch phoron with the oil and then add onions and green chili with it. 
12. Fry onions slightly and then add ginger garlic paste with it. Mix the paste properly with onions until the onion is brown color.
13. Now add tomato on the pan.
14. Add salt and sugar, mix all these together and put a lid on it to soften tomatoes quickly. Leave it for 3 minutes.
15. After 3 minutes open the lid and now press boiled soft tomatoes using the spatula to mix it with onions.
16. Then add turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and chili powder with it. Mix them with the remaining spices and let it cook again for 2 minutes.
17. After 2 minutes when all these spices are mixed well together, add slightly fried potato and cauliflowers with them.
18. Mix the gravy with potato cauliflower and add 1 cup of water. Put a lid and allow potato cauliflower to boil properly. It will take approximately 4 – 5 minutes on medium heat. 
19. Check periodically to see if there is sufficient water to boil them. Press one potato with the spatula to check if boiled. 
20. When the gravy with potato and cauliflower is ready, add fried fish with it.
21. Again the fish will be boiled with the gravy for approximately 4 minutes so that it will soak some of the gravy to being a great taste together. Some more water can be added at this point to make sure that some gravy will be left after boiling and it is not sticky.
22. After 4 minutes, the fish curry is boiled. Sprinkle grinded garam masala on top and transfer the curry to a serving bowl. 
23. Garnish with cilantro and enjoy this Bengali style fish curry with steamed rice.