Bangda Udadmethi

Ingredients list for Bangda Udadmethi

• 6 large Mackerels seeded
• Fresh coconut
• 2 cups Coconut scraped
• 4 medium Onions sliced
• 8 Whole dry red chillies
• 2 teaspoons Turmeric powder
• 3 tablespoons Oil
• 1 lemon size ball Tamarind
• 2 tablespoons Rice
• 2 tablespoons Split black gram skinless (dhuli urad dal)
• 1/2 teaspoon Fenugreek seeds (methi dana)
• to taste Salt

Method

1. Cut each mackerel into four pieces, apply salt and wash after fifteen minutes.
2. Heat one teaspoon oil in a pan. Stir-fry rice till it becomes dark brown. Drain. To the same oil add split black gram (urad dal) and stir-fry till browned. Drain.
3. Add fenugreek seeds and black peppercorns to the same oil, stir-fry till fenugreek crackles.
4. In a separate pan saute one sliced onion in two teaspoons of oil till golden brown. Add grated coconut and stir-fry till brown. Coarsely powder rice and black gram (dal) together.
5. Grind stir-fried coconut and onions along with tamarind, red chillies and turmeric to a rough paste and keep aside. Grind fenugreek and black peppercorns to a fine paste.
6. Saute the remaining sliced onions in the remaining oil till soft. Add ground coconut paste with five cups of water and salt. Add the fenugreek and peppercorns paste and bring to a boil.
7. Add mackerels, ground rice and black gram dal powder to the curry. Stir and cook for three minutes or till the fish is done.
8. Serve hot.

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