Recipe: Appetizing Tomato Fish

Tomato Fish.

You can cook Tomato Fish using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tomato Fish

1. Prepare 4 of large pieces Rohu or Catla fish.
2. It's 1 of each Panch-phoron (the bong special 5 spices together).
3. You need 1 of large Onion Paste.
4. It's 1 pod of Garlic paste.
5. Prepare 1 inch of Ginger paste.
6. Prepare 3-4 of medium sized Tomato Puree (homemade).
7. You need 1.5 Cups of Hot/Lukewarm water for the gravy.
8. You need 1 piece of Bayleaf/Tejpatta.
9. It's 1 of whole dried red chilli.
10. Prepare of As per taste Salt.
11. It's 1 tsp of Sugar.
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Turmeric.
13. You need 1 tsp of Red Chilli Powder.
14. It's 200 gms of Cooking Oil- Both for frying the fish & cooking the same (Vegetable/Refined Oil or Mustard Oil).

Tomato Fish step by step

1. Clean the fish pieces and set aside by putting some turmeric powder & salt to it & let it sit covered in the room tempreture for 30 mins..
2. Take a wok/kadhai to fry the fish pieces by putting sufficient oil to it & keep it aside, post frying..
3. In the same oil- If the oil quantity is more then, take out a bit from that, which can be used later in preparing any other fish recipes, put the bayleaf, whole dried red chilli & the panch-phoron- Allow that to release a good smell..
4. Then add onto it- the onion paste, sauté it just for a minute or so & then add on the ginger & garlic pastes- one by one, keep sautéing for about 2 mins till it's raw smells are gone & now is time to put in the tomato purée & again keep sautéing for another 3/4 mins time until the oil separates from it..
5. If you feel that the Masala is getting dried up while continuous sautéing & might catch the bottom of the kadhai- at that point, just sprinkle a little bit of warm water and keep continuing with the ‘bhunao’ process..
6. Finally, when the oil separates- it’s time to add on sufficient hot water for the gravy of your choice (don’t put too much water to get a runny gravy), it's gravy always need to be rich and thick one & not at all runny..
7. Allow it to come to a boil, at this point- add into it, the previously fried fish pieces & dip it inside the boiling gravy and then, cover it by lowering the flame to the low-medium- You need to give at least, 8/10 mins in this process..
8. Now finally, give it a gentle stir very carefully & switch off the flame & put it in the standby position on the oven itself for 5 mins more..
9. Tomato Fish is ready to be served now- Super Tasty & simply a yummmmy one..