Recipe : Thekera Dia Maasor Tenga (Sour Fish Curry with 'Thekeraa')
Ingredients :
1. Fish - 1 cleaned catfish, cut to about 3/4 inch pieces.
(I use catfish. It is supposed to of the 'Maagur" family.
Other fishes should be ok. Even very small fishes)
2. Half teaspoon turmeric
3. Few green chilies - depending on the strength of the chilli.
cut to small pieces
4. "PansPhoran" - about one teaspoon of the mixture of fenugreek
seeds, black "jeera", fennel seed.
5. Oil - Anything goes, but for authencity use mustard oil!
6. Salt
7. The most important thing - Thekera ( I don't know what it is
called in English. It seems to be an Assamese speciality. Even my
Bengali friends don't know about it). Of course you can always use
lime juice or tomato to give the sourness. But I am picky about my
"Thekeraa diaa Maasar Tenga" :-)
Preparation:
1. Put the "thekera" in a cup of water. Generally one piece of
"Thekera" is good for one cup of water. So depending on how much
gravy you want, use that many pieces. Keep for about 1/2 hour.
2. Mix the turmeric and salt with the fish. If you are using chilli
powder instead of green chilli, you can mix it too.
3. Fry the fish in oil lightly. Remove from pan. If the fish breaks a
little, don't worry, it will add to the gravy
4. In the same pan, heat some more oil and put the "PansPhoran"
mixture. Put green chillies. When fried, put the cup of water with
"Thekera"
5. Add extra cups of water (depending on the number of "thekera" used)
6. When the mixture comes to boil, add fried fish and reduce flame
7. Let it simmer for some time (10-15 minutes). Let the juice of "Thekera"
get cooked.
8. Serve with white rice. |
