Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Muri Ghonto (Bengali Fish Head Curry with Rice)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, muri ghonto (bengali fish head curry with rice). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Muri Ghonto (Bengali Fish Head Curry with Rice) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Muri Ghonto (Bengali Fish Head Curry with Rice) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have muri ghonto (bengali fish head curry with rice) using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Muri Ghonto (Bengali Fish Head Curry with Rice):

1. Prepare fish head - medium sized
2. Make ready gobindobhog rice (or basmati rice)
3. Prepare big sized potato, diced
4. Take big sized onion, finely chopped
5. Prepare green chillies, slit for middle
6. Prepare ginger paste
7. Make ready garlic paste
8. Take cinnamon sticks (dalchini)
9. Get green cardamom (elaichi)
10. Get (laung)
11. Take star anise (chakra phool)
12. Prepare bay leaves (tej patta)
13. Prepare dried red chillies
14. Get whole cumin seeds (gota jeera/sabud jeera)
15. Prepare turmeric powder (haldi)
16. Make ready cumin powder (jeera)
17. Prepare coriander powder (dhaniya)
18. Get red chilli powder (or as per your tolerance)
19. Make ready sugar
20. Take salt (according to taste)
21. Take ghee
22. Get mustard oil

Steps to make Muri Ghonto (Bengali Fish Head Curry with Rice):

1. Heat a pan and dry roast cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cloves and star anise. Remove from the pan and keep aside.
2. Rub the fish head with turmeric powder and some salt. Fry the head properly and keep aside.
3. Rub the potato pieces with turmeric powder and some salt. Shallow fry the pieces and keep aside.
4. Heat ghee in a pan and shallow fry the rice adding 2 pinches of turmeric powder for 1 minute. Remove the rice from the pan and keep aside.
5. Heat 3-4 table-spoon oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, roasted spices, dried red chillies and bay leaves. Allow the spices to splutter.
6. Now, add the chopped onion and green chillies. Sautè until the onion turns translucent.
7. Add ginger-garlic paste, cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt and stir for a few seconds on low flame.
8. Now, add the fish head and mix very well with the spices. Cook the head with the spices by stirring constantly until it gets crushed properly.
9. Add the rice and potato and give a quick mix.
10. Now, add 2 cups of warm water, mix well and cover the lid.
11. Cook it on low to medium flame for 10 minutes or until the rice and potato get cooked well. Check the salt, if it is less, you can add now.
12. After 10 minutes, check if it is well cooked. If not, you can add 1 cup warm water more and cook for another 5 minutes.
13. Once the rice is well cooked and the water gets absorbed, add sugar and mix well.
14. Turn off the flame, cover the lid and let it set for 10 minutes. Your Muri Ghonto is ready to be served now.

So that is going to wrap it up for this exceptional food muri ghonto (bengali fish head curry with rice) recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I’m confident you will make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!