Steamed Pabda Fish in Bottle Gourd Leaf (Lau Patai Pabda Paturi)
Steamed Pabda Fish in Bottle Gourd Leaf (Lau Patai Pabda Paturi)

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, steamed pabda fish in bottle gourd leaf (lau patai pabda paturi). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Steamed Pabda Fish in Bottle Gourd Leaf (Lau Patai Pabda Paturi) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Steamed Pabda Fish in Bottle Gourd Leaf (Lau Patai Pabda Paturi) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Pabda is a very soft fleshed fish so it requires very little time to get cooked thoroughly. So you need to be very careful on the timing while frying the fish otherwise fish will fall apart (like my first one). Remove fish from oil and keep aside. Use the same oil to fry the potatoes and make the jhol or broth.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have steamed pabda fish in bottle gourd leaf (lau patai pabda paturi) using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Steamed Pabda Fish in Bottle Gourd Leaf (Lau Patai Pabda Paturi):
  1. Prepare 6 pieces pabda fish
  2. Take 2 tbsp mustard seeds
  3. Take 6 lau pata/bottle gourd big leaves
  4. Prepare 1 tsp turmeric
  5. Take 2 tbsp curd
  6. Get 3 tbsp coriander chopped
  7. Make ready 3 tbsp mustard oil
  8. Get To taste salt
  9. Get 3-4 green chillies,slit

Pabda Macher Jhol Recipe (Pabda Fish Curry) Bengalis are fish-loving folks, and fish recipes originating from this state are plenty and delicious. Perhaps the most popular fish recipe is Macher Jhol. Any type of fish can be used to prepare this, but I have used Pabda catfish here. Pabda manch / ompok pabo are very soft fish taste is very mild and sweet.

Instructions to make Steamed Pabda Fish in Bottle Gourd Leaf (Lau Patai Pabda Paturi):
  1. Clean,wash and marinate fish with salt,turmeric and little mustard oil for 10 minutes.Grind to a thick paste mustard,curd,chopped coriander and 2 green chillies.Clean and wash bottle gourd leaves.Smear oil on the inside of each leaf.Coat each fish with the ground paste alongwith little salt and 1 tbsp mustard oil.Place fish on the leaves.
  2. Fold the leaves so that masala does not ooze out.Tie the leaves tightly.Sprinkle 1 tbsp oil on a nonstick pan and pan fry the leaves in low flame covered so that fish is steamed inside.Flip the foil and cook the other side 5 minutes.Switch off flame.Cut the thread and serve paturi alongwith the edible leaves with steamed rice.
  3. Mustard oil plays a vital role to cook this delicacy.

Any type of fish can be used to prepare this, but I have used Pabda catfish here. Pabda manch / ompok pabo are very soft fish taste is very mild and sweet. It was cooked in various ways. Paturi is a kind of cooking where raw marinated fish is cooked on banana leaves wrap. This is the first time I tried to experiment pabda /ompok pabo fish in banana leaves.

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