Fish Paturi/ Banana Leaf Wrapped Fish Recipe

 

Fish Paturi/ Banana Leaf Wrapped Fish

Ingredients: Fish ( here I take Bhetki fish/Barramundi/Asian Sea Bass, you can take Hilsa or Salmon) 500g ( with or without bone), Mustard oil 100ml, Green Chilli 10 to 15 pcs, Curd 4 tbs, coconut ¼, Black mustard 2 tbs, Poppy seed 1 tbs, Cashew nut 10 pcs, salt to taste, Termaric powder 1tsp, oil to fry (optional), Banana leaf for wrapping the fish pieces.

Process: Cut 500 g fish into 10 pieces ( or approx 50 g each piece), add 1 tbs salt and Termaric powder to fish, apply salt and Termaric powder all over the fish pieces. 

Cut the coconut in small pieces, cut 5 green chilli roughly. Put coconut pieces and green chilli a mixi, grind them to make paste and this to fish. Put mustard seed  in mixi and grind this to a fine paste. Add this to fish.  Poppy seed  and cashew nuts in a mixi and make a smooth paste. Add this mixture to fish.

Now all the ingredients and curd  add to the fish pieces mix gently with hand and add 50 ml Mustard oil to this, add salt to your taste and mix them well, remember salt already used at starting. Keep this undisturbed in room temperature for an our or little more.

Rest of the green chilli cut by length keep aside.

Cut the banana leaves into 6"x6" sheet, deep them in boiled water or boil them for few minutes to soften the leaf tissue.

After one hour, take one banana leaf sheet greese with Mustard oil, put a piece of fish along with some marinating batter, put cut green chilli on fish add one tap of Mustard oil to this. Now fold the leaf to wrap the spiced mixed fish and knot the wrap with a piece of thread. By following Same way wrap the other fish pieces and keep them on plate. 

The final step is total your choice, you can deep fry wrapped fish in medium flame for 5 to 10 minutes. Or keep the wrapped fish on vapour for 20 mins. But I suggest you to fry them.

Now the wrapped fish is ready to serve, this can be served alone or can serve as a side dish.