Ingredients

• Hilsa 600gms
• Basmati rice 300gms
• Mustard oil 70 ml
• Green chilli pickle 25 gms
• Green chillies (slitted) 4-6 no
• Black onion seeds (Kalunji) 5gms
• Turmeric powder 1 tsp
• Sugar ½ tsp
• Water as required
• Salt to taste
• Mustard Whole 15 gms
• Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp.

How to Make ILISH MACHER BIRIYANI

• Take the fish, clean & cut into medium size pieces
• Apply salt and little turmeric to the fish and keep aside for 30 mins.
• Wash and soak the rice for 30 mints.
• Slit the green chilli. Boil the water.
• Strain the soaked rice and boil till 3/4th done.
• Take a pan & heat 50 ml of mustard oil. Allow it to come to the smoking point.
• Cool a little, add the whole mustard seeds and allow it to crackle.
• Add slit green chilli.
• Add the hilsa fishes and the green chilli pickle & cook for a minute.
• Add turmeric powder, salt.
• Reduce the flame of the oven and layered the fish with the cooked basmati rice. Cover the pan with the lid.
• Cook in dum on slow flame till the fish is tender.
• Serve hot.