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Bangali fish curry recipe... : Ingredients: For making this simple and super tasty fish curry recipe we need 600g fish, 1 large onion paste, 1 tomato paste, 1 tsp ginger garlic paste. Two small potatoes cut into wedges. For tempering: Panch  phoron (panch phoron is mix of five spices. Which contains cumin seeds, mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, fenal seeds, nigella seeds)  and dried red chilli  1 tsp salt or according to taste 1/2 tsp turmeric powder. 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder. 1/2 tsp red chilli powder. 1 tsp freshly crushed cumin powder. 1/2 tsp garam masala. Freshly chopped coriender leaves. : Method: Marinate the fish with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and 1/2 tsp salt for 5 minutes. Now heat a pan pour generous amount of mustard oil, for frying the fish. For fry the fish put the fish One by one slowly in the hot oil(medium high),Skin side down. Turn the fish up side down after it is golden brown from the other side. Fry until golden brown .now take out the fried fish in a plate

Paneer masala recipe : Ingredients :   For making paneer masala we need 250g paneer, 2 large onions thinly sliced, 3 chopped tomatoes, 1 inch ginger cut into Julien's, 2 chopped green chilli,1 tsp garlic paste, 7 to 8 garlic cloves crushed .  1 inch cinnamon, 10 to 12 black pepper corns, 3 cardamom, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1 bay leaf. 1tsp salt, 1tsp kashmiri Lal mirch, 1tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1 tsp freshly crushed cumin powder, 1 tsp kashuri methi   :Method: For cooking we need a pan or kadai, add 2 ladle full of oil, let the oil heat,  lower the flame and now add Cinnamon, cardamom, jeera or cumin, bay leaf, black pepper corns. Fry for 30 seconds on low flame. Then add the sliced onions, ginger and chopped green chillies. Fry in medium flame until the onions turns soft and pink. After the onions are soft are pink, now add all the masalas. 1 tsp salt or(according to taste), 1 tsp tumeric powder (haldi), 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1 tsp kashuri Lal mirch. Mix them well and sprinkle

Aloo postu (Poppy seeds) : Ingredients : For making this simple recipe we   need 25g of poppy seeds soaked for 20 minutes, three potatoes cut into cubes, two large onions ,one large chopped tomato, 4 tbsp mustard oil ( mustard oil is compulsory in bangali recipe) salt to taste, Panch phoron. : Method : Heat a pan, add 3 tbsp of mustard oil,  heat the oil until smokey, turn off the flame and let the oil cool down a bit, now add one tsp of Panch phoron ( Panch phoron is the mixture of five spices used in bangali cooking that are: fenugreek seeds, fenal seeds, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, kalongi or nigella seeds.) And two dried red chilli for temparing. Now add the potatoes cut into cubes,  and fry for five minutes nicely (don not brown the potatoes)  after five minutes add the onions and fry for five minutes on low medium flame, after frying add one tsp salt and mix  cover and cook for five minutes on low flame. Meanwhile the potatoes are cooking make a fine paste of poppy seeds and keep