Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bhetki machher paturi/ barramundi cooked in banana leaves. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Bengali Bhetki Macher Paturi Recipe is Bengali Style Barramundi Fish cooked by wrapping in banana leaf. The bhetki fish pieces are marinated in a spiced mustard paste, wrapped in banana leaf individually and then slow cooked till tender. The word "Paturi" means leaf, in Bengali.
Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have bhetki machher paturi/ barramundi cooked in banana leaves using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves:
- Get 6 pieces bhetki/ barramundi fish
- Prepare 2 tablespoons white mustard seeds
- Get 1 tablespoons black mustard seeds
- Make ready 1 tablespoons poppy seeds
- Take 2 tablespoons mustard oil
- Make ready 3-4 green chilies
- Get 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
- Make ready 1/3 cup coconut powder (narkol kora)
- Make ready 1/2 + ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 150 g hung curd
- Take 3-4 banana leaves for wrapping
- Prepare Thread to tie the wraps
Bhetki paturi is a traditional preparation of Bhetki or barramundi fish, where basically well-marinated boneless vetki or bhetki fillets are wrapped up in banana leaf for making this recipe either by slow cooking in a greased pan or steamed up. In bengali marriage ceremonies and other celebrations, Bhetki paturi Barramundi fish wrapped in banana leaf surely is a foodie's delight! Now here goes the mouth watering recipe of bengali delicacy - Bhetki paturi !
Instructions to make Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves:
- Clean the bhetki/barramundi pieces properly and pat them dry. Rub ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder, lemon juice and salt and leave them for half an hour.
- Meanwhile, make a paste of the yellow and brown mustard seeds along with poppy seeds and green chilies. To the paste, add salt, turmeric powder, hung curd and coconut powder, mustard oil.
- Now add the paste to the bhetki/ barramundi fish and marinade the fish for at least 2 hours.
- Take the banana leaves, cut them to 6”/6” pieces and clean them properly. Take a tawa and roast the banana leaves on very low flame for about 30 seconds.
- To the banana leaves, add one spoon of marinade and then add one piece of fish. Now add little more of the marinade on top of the fish. Wrap the fish with banana leaves and close the parcel with a thread. Wrap the fish properly such that the marinade does not come out of the parcel.
- Add mustard oil on a flat pan/tawa.
- Once the oil is hot add the fish parcels on the tawa. Cook the paturi on mid low flame, covered for about 8-10 minutes.
- After 8 minutes, remove the cover and flip the parcels and cook again for 10 minutes.
- Remove the fish parcels and store them in casserole till ready to serve.
Marinate the fillet with ginger garlic paste, lemon juice and salt. This traditional Bengali fish recipe comes alive with the sharp flavour of mustard fused with the aroma of steamed banana leaves!. Bhetki Macher Paturi Recipe: Sorshe Macher Paturi or fish fillets smeared with mustard paste and spices, wrapped up in banana leaves and steamed or cooked till tender. T he word "paaturi" comes from the Bangla word "paata" or leaf. That said, it becomes crystal clear that "Maacher Paturi" or Fish Paturi is a preparation where the fish is cooked in some sort of a leaf.
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