Murighonto (Fish head curry with lentil)
Murighonto (Fish head curry with lentil)

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, murighonto (fish head curry with lentil). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

My sister and I were very fond of eating the soft and juicy fish brain, so fish head curry was often in the menu. Sometimes my mother would cook the heads with lentils (muro diye dal), sometimes with green leaves, potatoes and mixed vegetables (pui shaak muro diye) and sometimes the Muri Ghonto was cooked with cabbage (muro diye badhakopir ghonto). Cook until water dries up, then add another cup of water. After boiling water takes off the fish head and adds yellow lentil.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook murighonto (fish head curry with lentil) using 13 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Murighonto (Fish head curry with lentil):
  1. Prepare 1 cup yellow Moong Dal
  2. Prepare 1 Rahu fish head(I use head of a 3kg size Rahu fish)
  3. Take 2 big Onion chopped
  4. Get 1 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic paste
  5. Prepare 1 tablespoon ready-made tomato puree or puree of 2 fresh tomatoe
  6. Prepare 1 teaspoon Panchfuran (a bengali whole spice mix)
  7. Take 1 Bay leaf
  8. Get 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
  9. Get 2 teaspoon Kashmiri red chilli powder
  10. Get 2 teaspoon Coriander-Cumin powder(2 tsp coriander+1tsp cumin)
  11. Prepare 2 Whole dry Red chilli
  12. Take 2 Green chilli
  13. Make ready 3-4 tablespoon Mustard oil

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. Muri Ghonto Fish Head With Yellow Lentil Fish Head Curry —– Muri Ghonto is a Bengali traditional food.

Instructions to make Murighonto (Fish head curry with lentil):
  1. Dry roast moong daal into a pan until light golden brown.
  2. Let the daal cool and soak in water for an hour.
  3. Clean and cut the fish head in small pieces as possible.
  4. Add 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt and rub to the pieces.
  5. Heat 1and 1/2 tablespoon of mustard oil in a pan and add the fish head pieces.
  6. Fry them in medium heat until light golden brown. Keep aside.
  7. Pressure cook soaked daal with salt and 2 cups of water until just soft.
  8. Heat 2 tablespoon of mustard oil in a saucepan and temper bay leaf, red chilli and paachfuran.
  9. After few seconds add chopped onion and saute until onions become translucent.
  10. Add ginger-garlic paste and saute till raw smell of ginger garlic goes off.
  11. Now add tomato puree, turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander-cumin powder.
  12. Saute in medium heat and add 1/2 cup of water.Let the spices cook well in medium heat for few minutes.
  13. When spices and tomatoes cooks well and oil starts separating from gravy add in the fried fish head.
  14. Stir to coat spices to fish head,add salt and couple of tablespoon of water, cover and cook in low heat for 10 minutes.
  15. After 10 minutes remove the cover, fry in spices again for 3-4 minutes. This frying will enhance the flavour of murighonto.
  16. Next add in cooked daal and mix well with a spatula.
  17. Add sufficient hot water to make the curry thin, check seasoning and add if necessary.
  18. Cook in medium heat until murighonto starts boiling and then add some slitted green chillies.
  19. Further cook in medium low heat for 10 minutes or until gravy comes to your desired consistency. I like the gravy little thin, you can make them thick as well.

It is a perfect side to accompany with piping hot Steamed Rice. Muri Ghonto Fish Head With Yellow Lentil Fish Head Curry —– Muri Ghonto is a Bengali traditional food. It is a very popular recipe with Fish Head. Muri Ghonto or A Dry Rice Dish With Fish Headis an Authentic Bengali dish, prepared with rice and pre- fried fish-head where both are cooked together. It is served with rice or roti.

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