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Dom Chitol (Chitol or Clown Knifefish Cooked in Dum)

Feb-14-2017
Maumita Paul Ghosh
10 minutes
Prep Time
25 minutes
Cook Time
4 People
Serves
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ABOUT Dom Chitol (Chitol or Clown Knifefish Cooked in Dum) RECIPE

Shallow fried chitol steaks. A generous slather of caramelised onion. The earthy heat of ginger. The tart of yoghurt. The sweetness of raisins. The decadence of mawa. The perfume of green cardamom. And a luxuriant dollop of ghee. Sealed in a dekchi. To keep all those sublime aromas trapped. Cooked over a lazy flame. Slow and languorous. Till just done.

Recipe Tags

  • Non-veg
  • Easy
  • Festive
  • West Bengal

Ingredients Serving: 4

  1. 3-4 chitol peti (belly part of the chitol)
  2. 1/2 cup yogurt whipped
  3. 50 g mawa or khowa
  4. 3 tbsp raisins
  5. 2 tsp ginger paste
  6. 2 tbsp onion paste
  7. 2-3 green cardamom
  8. 1 one inch cinnamon stick
  9. 2-3 Cloves
  10. 2-3 bay leaves
  11. 1 tsp turmeric powder
  12. 1 tsp red chili powder
  13. 1 tsp sugar
  14. 1 tbsp mustard oil
  15. 1 tbsp ghee
  16. Salt to taste
  17. Flour dough for sealing

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 170C.
  2. Marinate the fish with salt and a pinch of turmeric powder, keep aside.
  3. Soak the raisins in warm water for 10 minutes. Take 2/3 of the raisins and make a coarse paste. Keep aside.
  4. Heat oil in a pan, shallow fry the fish for 3-4 minutes. Keep aside.
  5. To the same oil, throw in the bay leaves, crushed cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. Allow the spices to splutter and release their aroma.
  6. Add the onion paste, fry till the onions are cooked and the paste is a gorgeous golden. Remove from heat.
  7. Take the whipped yogurt in a separate bowl, add to it the mawa, ginger paste, raisin paste, turmeric powder, red chili powder, sugar and salt, mix well.
  8. Add the yoghurt mixture to the fried onion paste, mix thoroughly.
  9. Now take an oven proof pan, gently place the fried fish, pour the yoghurt- fried onion paste mixture over the fish, coat the fish evenly with the masala paste.
  10. Throw in the remaining raisins, add a generous dollop of ghee and adjust seasonings.
  11. Close the pan with a lid, seal with the flour dough.
  12. Bake the fish for 10-15 minutes in the preheated oven. Serve hot with rice.

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Sukhmani Bedi
Feb-21-2017
Sukhmani Bedi   Feb-21-2017

So good!

Tripti Bhatia
Feb-16-2017
Tripti Bhatia   Feb-16-2017

amazingly yummy

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