I've been craving a dish from my favourite restaurant Grameen Khana in Birmingham for a while now, which is Hilsha fish egg bhuna. I thought i would cook it at home, but lo and behold my local Bengali grocers didn't have Hilsha fish eggs so i had to settle for Rohu eggs.
The texture is the same between the two, only the taste is different. I added the Bangladeshi citrus fruit shatkora to it because the restaurant does this too!
For this i used:
2 tbsp oil
8 cloves minced garlic
1 and 1/2 small onions, finely sliced
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander stalks
1 tomato, blended
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1 and 1/2 tsp Bolsts Hot curry powder
1 packet Rohu fish eggs, washed gently with salt and turmeric and then marinated in a pinch of salt and turmeric
2 slices frozen shatkora
8 chillies to garnish
Chopped coriander to garnish
In a wok, heat your oil, then add minced garlic to brown.
Once browned, add your onions, salt and coriander, cover and cook on a medium heat for 10 minutes until onions have browned and softened.
During this time while your onions soften, put a non stick pan on heat, and fry your fish eggs. Put it on a low heat and cover whilst cooking. The fish eggs should take 10-12 minutes to cook, turning once in the middle. Take these off when golden on each side and cooked all the way through. Cut into cubes and set aside.
Add to the onions your blended tomato, and cook for a further 5-7 minutes until oil has released from the onions and tomato. Stir in your powdered spices now, adding a little water, and put it on a low flame. Stir regularly, adding little water if required, until oils release from your spices.
Put the fish egg cubes in the onions and spices and mix gently. Add a little water and holding the pan by the handles, give it a little shake. Cut your shatkora into 8 pieces (4 each) and add to your curry. Mix gently again, top it up with a little water again (not much as this is a bhuna), cover and cook for a further 10 minutes on a low heat.
Take off heat, garnish with the chillies and coriander and serve with hot rice.
Et voila!
Hope you enjoy!
Yaz ♥
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