Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, muri ghonto/bengali fish head with rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Bengali muri ghonto recipe is spicy dish, which has a very good combination of aromatic spices, fish head and flavored rice goes very well with Basmati rice. Bengali Fish Head and Rice Mishmash. Muri Ghonto is one of the signature dishes from the Bengali Cuisine.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have muri ghonto/bengali fish head with rice using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice:

1. Prepare Fish head of katla fish
2. Prepare gobindobhog/basmati rice
3. Take big potato cut into cubes
4. Get cauliflower florets
5. Get green chilies
6. Prepare cinnamon stick
7. Make ready elaichi/cardamom
8. Take whole cumin
9. Prepare bay leaves
10. Get onions thinly sliced
11. Take ginger paste
12. Make ready tomato finely chopped
13. Take garlic paste
14. Prepare turmeric powder
15. Prepare cumin powder
16. Take mustard oil or any cooking oil
17. Take Salt
18. Prepare ghee
19. Take red chilli powder(optional)

Actually it doesn't matter what else you have in your platter as long as you have a bowl full of steaming hot. Generally we make Muri Ghonto with Gobindobhog rice.but recently I came to know that it's also made with chire or flattened rice sometimes. I got this recipe from my friend, which belonged to her grandmother. Muri Ghonto – Bengali Fish head Curry.

Instructions to make Muri ghonto/Bengali fish head with rice:

1. Wash the fish head thoroughly and rub 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder and salt and keep aside.
2. In another vessel, wash the rice and keep aside.
3. Take a kadhai/pan, add the oil and heat it. To the hot oil add the fish head and fry them properly till the raw smell is gone. Remove the fish head and keep them aside.
4. Now, add the potatoes and cauliflower florets to the hot oil and fry. Keep them aside.
5. Add more oil if required. To the same oil add whole cumin, bay leaves, elaichi, cinnamon stick and fry for a minute till you get the aroma of the spices. Now, add the sliced onions and fry till they become translucent and slightly golden.
6. Add the turmeric powder, cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt. Add the ginger, garlic paste, green chilies and tomatoes. Stir till the raw smell of tomatoes goes away.
7. Now, add the soaked rice and stir for 1 minute. Stir till oil comes out of the mixture. Now, add about 2 cups of water and also add the fried potatoes and cauliflower.
8. Meanwhile, break the fish head into small pieces and add the pieces at this point. Continue cooking till the rice and veggies are cooked properly.
9. Continue cooking till the rice and veggies are cooked properly. Reduce the water such that it is not absolutely dry as polao nor as watery as jhol/soup. Add the ghee before turning off the flame.

Bengali kids are initiated into eating fish head from a very tender age and so very soon they learn to do it with a panache that very few non-Bongs can contend. MURI GHONTO is an authentic fish dish for a Bengali. There is, however, no particular ratio of rice and fish and it depends on each family's own preference: some like the amount of rice more than that of the fish heads, some like to use rice sparingly. In Bengali ceremony preparing any dish with fish head is a very good sign. There are plenty of dishes where they use fish head.

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