Macher matha diye badhakopi is a delicious bengali recipe where fish head is cooked with cabbage with aromatic spices!
How to make Macher Matha diye Badhakopi
Description
Macher Matha diye badhakopi is a Bengali delicacy. This absolutely mouth watering preparation can be made with any freshwater fish head and cabbage. The cabbage is cooked till it has a melt in the mouth texture and is combined with aromatic spices and crisp fish head pieces. This recipe is surely a keeper!
Ingredients
Instructions
- Clean the fish heads thoroughly and coat with salt and turmeric powder
- Add 3 tbsp. Mustard oil to a pot set on high heat
- Add fish head pieces and fry till crisp
- Set the fish aside
- Reduce heat to medium
- Add cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, green cardamoms, cloves and 1 bay leaf
- Add turmeric powder, salt (to taste), 1/2 tsp. sugar and ginger paste
- Give it a quick stir
- Add garlic cloves and stir. (You don’t have to brown the garlic)
- Add cumin powder and red chilli powder. You can splash some water in the pot if it’s too hot and you think that the masalas could burn
- Give it a quick stir
- Add the fried fish head
- Add cabbage along with some salt (to taste)
- Place the lid on for 2 min so that cabbage wilts a little and it’s easier to stir it
- Mix the cabbage with the fish
- Place the lid on till the cabbage becomes soft. Stir the curry every 5 min so it doesn’t burn
- If the cabbage doesn’t ooze out water, you can sprinkle some water so that cabbage turns nice and soft
- Check for salt and sugar
- Add ghee and keep stir frying the cabbage till it looks oily and easily glides on the surface of the pot
- While stirring you can break the fish head into smaller pieces so the taste of the cabbage enhances
- Add garam masala powder and mix
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