Lentil with Fish Head(Moong Daal with Fish Head)

Ingredient:

1. 1 cup of yellow lentil(Moong dal).

2.One big head of Rahu/Katla fish.

3.4 to 5 table spoons of mustard oil if available, else refined oil will do.

4. Ginger paste one table spoon .

5.One medium sized onion paste .

6.Sugar half table spoon, salt and turneric as per your taste buds.

7. Three/four green chilly slits into half ,whole cumin seed , bay leaf and 2 cardamom, and 2 cloves  for tadka/forni.
8. Ghee one table spoon .

Method:

1.Mix salt and turmeric powder with fish head and fry it, till fish head turns brown. Break the each head slice into two or three.Keep this aside.

2.Roast the lentil in a pan for a minute and wash it.

3.Boil the lentil with  turmeric powder and salt.Boil till it gets cooked.

4.Now we will prepare tadka. First add some oil into frying pan and add whole cumin seed, bay leaf cardamom and cloves.Once it starts splatter add onion paste , stir it for 2 mins and then add ginger paste. Add turmeric and little water (two table spoons) and cook the spices till raw smell goes away.

5.Then add the cooked lentil and fried fish head.

6.Boil the lentil for 10  minutes so that fish head mix well with lentil, in between you can add sugar and at last add ghee.

Chef's Tips:

This lentil with fish head is an authentic Bengali dish and tastes good with Basmati rice.
Once this dish is ready you can sprinkle some slitted green chillies and cover the lead, it gives really good smell.

Please try this and let me know your feed back :-) .