Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice
Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, muri ghonto/bengali fish head with rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Bengali Fish Head and Rice Mishmash. Muri Ghonto is one of the signature dishes from the Bengali Cuisine. This is prepared with Rice and Fishhead (mostly Rehu Fish/ Rui Mach or Katla fish).

Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook muri ghonto/bengali fish head with rice using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice:
  1. Prepare 1 Fish head of katla fish
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup gobindobhog/basmati rice
  3. Take 1 big potato cut into cubes
  4. Get 1 cup cauliflower florets
  5. Prepare 3-4 green chilies
  6. Get 1 cinnamon stick
  7. Get 5-6 elaichi/cardamom
  8. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon whole cumin
  9. Take 2 bay leaves
  10. Make ready 2 onions thinly sliced
  11. Make ready 2 teaspoons ginger paste
  12. Get 1 tomato finely chopped
  13. Make ready 2 teaspoons garlic paste
  14. Prepare 1 +1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  15. Take 1 teaspoon cumin powder
  16. Make ready 6 tablespoons mustard oil or any cooking oil
  17. Take to taste Salt
  18. Make ready 1 teaspoon ghee
  19. Take 1 teaspoon red chilli powder(optional)

We mostly serve it as a side dish with rice. But some people like to have it with roti as well. Actually it doesn't matter what else you have in your platter as long as you have a bowl full of steaming hot. Muri Ghonto – Bengali Fish head Curry.

Instructions to make Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice:
  1. Wash the fish head thoroughly and rub 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder and salt and keep aside.
  2. In another vessel, wash the rice and keep aside.
  3. Take a kadhai/pan, add the oil and heat it. To the hot oil add the fish head and fry them properly till the raw smell is gone. Remove the fish head and keep them aside.
  4. Now, add the potatoes and cauliflower florets to the hot oil and fry. Keep them aside.
  5. Add more oil if required. To the same oil add whole cumin, bay leaves, elaichi, cinnamon stick and fry for a minute till you get the aroma of the spices. Now, add the sliced onions and fry till they become translucent and slightly golden.
  6. Add the turmeric powder, cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt. Add the ginger, garlic paste, green chilies and tomatoes. Stir till the raw smell of tomatoes goes away.
  7. Now, add the soaked rice and stir for 1 minute. Stir till oil comes out of the mixture. Now, add about 2 cups of water and also add the fried potatoes and cauliflower.
  8. Meanwhile, break the fish head into small pieces and add the pieces at this point. Continue cooking till the rice and veggies are cooked properly.
  9. Continue cooking till the rice and veggies are cooked properly. Reduce the water such that it is not absolutely dry as polao nor as watery as jhol/soup. Add the ghee before turning off the flame.

Bengali kids are initiated into eating fish head from a very tender age and so very soon they learn to do it with a panache that very few non-Bongs can contend. Generally we make Muri Ghonto with Gobindobhog rice.but recently I came to know that it's also made with chire or flattened rice sometimes. I got this recipe from my friend, which belonged to her grandmother. MURI GHONTO is an authentic fish dish for a Bengali. There is, however, no particular ratio of rice and fish and it depends on each family's own preference: some like the amount of rice more than that of the fish heads, some like to use rice sparingly.

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