MAHI KHALYA Recipe

Ingredients

• Fish 1 kg
• Mustard oil 1 cup
• Green chilies 2
• Curry leaves 2
• Whole red chilies 4
• Lemons 1-2
• Tamarind paste ¼ cup
• Mustard seeds  few
• Coconut 1 small piece
• Peanuts 10-12
• Poppy seeds 1 tbsp
• Red chili powder 1 tbsp
• Ginger 2 tsp
• Garlic 2 tsp
• Turmeric ¼ tsp
• Coriander seeds 2 tbsp
• White vinegar 2 tbsp
• White sesame seeds 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Methods

1. Wash and clean the fish and cut it into pieces.
2. Wash it with luke warm water.
3. Roast together 1 tbsp poppy seeds, white vinegar, 2 tbsp sesame seeds, coriander seeds, peanuts and small coconut piece.
4. Grind everything together.
5. In a pan, add in 1 cup oil and red chilies, fenugreek seeds,  and curry leaves.
6. Fry them and add un 2 tsp ginger, 2 tsp garlic, turmeric, 1 tbsp red chili, salt and roasted and crushed spices.
7. Cook it and remove it from the stove.
8. Add in lemon juice in fish and fry it.
9. Keep the spice mixture on the stove.
10. Heat it and cook it. Add in fish pieces.
11. Then add in tamatind paste, 2 curry leaves, 2 green chilies and move the pan.
12. When the oil comes up, Keep it on the low flame, simmer it for 5 -10 minutes and serve.