Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, bhetki machher paturi/ barramundi cooked in banana leaves. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Learn how to make bhetki macher paturi recipe with banana leaf a famous bengali barramundi fish dish recipe in bengali step by step. Put banana leave pieces glossy side up. White fishes are normally very tasty to eat.

Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bhetki machher paturi/ barramundi cooked in banana leaves using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves:

1. Make ready 6 pieces bhetki/ barramundi fish
2. Get 2 tablespoons white mustard seeds
3. Make ready 1 tablespoons black mustard seeds
4. Take 1 tablespoons poppy seeds
5. Take 2 tablespoons mustard oil
6. Take 3-4 green chilies
7. Make ready 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
8. Prepare 1/3 cup coconut powder (narkol kora)
9. Take 1/2 + ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder
10. Make ready to taste Salt
11. Make ready 150 g hung curd
12. Get 3-4 banana leaves for wrapping
13. Take Thread to tie the wraps

The basic fish paturi marinade has just ground mustard, green chillies, turmeric, mustard oil and salt. Bhetki Macher Paturi is a signature Bengali fish dish where Bhetki Maach is wrapped in Banana leaf with a paste of Mustard & Coconut & cooked Bhetki Macher Paturi Living in a city for years and then leaving the city suddenly is weird, ain't it! Unwrap the bhetki macher paturi and let the subtle flavour of mustard and banana filled your senses.

Instructions to make Bhetki machher paturi/ Barramundi cooked in banana leaves:

1. Clean the bhetki/barramundi pieces properly and pat them dry. Rub ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder, lemon juice and salt and leave them for half an hour.
2. Meanwhile, make a paste of the yellow and brown mustard seeds along with poppy seeds and green chilies. To the paste, add salt, turmeric powder, hung curd and coconut powder, mustard oil.
3. Now add the paste to the bhetki/ barramundi fish and marinade the fish for at least 2 hours.
4. Take the banana leaves, cut them to 6”/6” pieces and clean them properly. Take a tawa and roast the banana leaves on very low flame for about 30 seconds.
5. To the banana leaves, add one spoon of marinade and then add one piece of fish. Now add little more of the marinade on top of the fish. Wrap the fish with banana leaves and close the parcel with a thread. Wrap the fish properly such that the marinade does not come out of the parcel.
6. Add mustard oil on a flat pan/tawa.
7. Once the oil is hot add the fish parcels on the tawa. Cook the paturi on mid low flame, covered for about 8-10 minutes.
8. After 8 minutes, remove the cover and flip the parcels and cook again for 10 minutes.
9. Remove the fish parcels and store them in casserole till ready to serve.

Bhetki paturi is a traditional Bengali fish recipe where barramundi fish is steam cooked after wrapping it in banana leaf and rubbing with Indian spices. Hope you all like my recipe. Here I have used coconut which is optional. Bhetki Macher Paturi is a traditional Bengali Fish preparation which is being enjoyed beyond age and time. Bhetki Paturi always call for good quality freshest possible barramundi fillet which is marinated in mustard based mixture and wrapped in banana leaves.

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