Nikitasa Mishra
5 min readOct 15, 2023

Bhetki macher paturi recipe | how to make Bengali Biye bari style bhetki (barramundi fish)

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Bhetki macher paturi is a customary Bengali style bhetki (barramundi fish or Indian ocean bass fish) recipe by cooking fish enveloped by banana leaf. This recipe is made with boneless bhetki (vetki) fish filets, marinated with lemon squeeze, a blended glue of mustard seeds, green chillis, cashew nuts, hung curd, and ground coconut with mustard oil and well collapsed up in a banana leaf and broiled or cook or steamed in lubed skillet.

" Paturi" came from the Bengali expression "Pata" and that signifies "leaf". Paturi is made of fish (Bhetki or ilish or chingri) or in veg use chhana (paneer) is marinated with flavors and enveloped by banana passes on to cook. Aside from banana leaf (kola pata or kele ki patte) can utilize gourd leaf (lau pata) or arbi leaf (kochu pata) to make vetki or any fish paturi recipe. Bengali Bhetki fish Paturi is a comparative rendition of Parsi recipe patrani machchi.

According to the conventional Bengali recipe, banana leaf-wrapped bhetki is singed in an oil-lubed skillet to finish paturi recipe. Nonetheless, you can heat this banana leaf-wrapped bhetki in a microwave by putting it on a lubed nonstick prepared container. In the event that Banana leaves are nowhere to be found, can utilize food-evaluated, heat-verification aluminum foil to twist and cook in the microwave or on the gas oven. In the event that have neither Banana leaves nor aluminum foil, steam up the paturis as I set up my Bhapa Ilish recipe.

Bhetki macher Paturi impeccably goes with white steamed rice or basmati rice with wedges of gondhoraj lebu (a fragrant Bengali lime).

Attempt this Bengali biye bari style Bhetki fish paturi at home with the assistance of my bit by bit itemized recipe with pictures and kindly offer your important criticism about this recipe in the remark area underneath.

Bhetki macher paturi recipe | Bengali Biye bari style Bhetki (barramundi fish) paturi recipe
Bhetki macher paturi is a customary Bengali style bhetki (barramundi fish or Indian ocean bass fish) recipe by cooking fish enveloped by banana leaves.

Elements of Vetki macher paturi
300 g Boneless Bhetki Fish Filets
1/2 Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Mustard Oil (for marination)
2 tbsp Dark Mustard Seeds (for making a glue)
1 tbsp Yellow Mustard Seeds
1 tbsp Poppy Seeds
10 Cashew Nuts/Charmagaz seeds
4 Green Chillies
1/2 Ground Coconut
6 tbsp Hung Curd/Jol jhorano tok doi
2 tbsp Mustard Oil
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
Salt (as required)
1 tbsp Mustard Oil (For singing the banana leaf wraped fish)

The most effective method to make Bengali Biye bari style Bhetki (Barramundi fish) Macher Paturi recipe with bit by bit pictures
Directions
Instructions to marinate Bhetki fish filets
To begin with, wash the boneless bhetki fish filets, and channel the water well.
Put each fish filet on one of your palms and somewhat push down the filets with the other palm to eliminate the abundance water from it.
Then, at that point, keep all the fish filets on a plate and first marinate the fish filet with half lemon juice.
Pleasantly cover the filets with lemon juice from the two sides and marinate the filets for 10 mins.

After 10 mins again marinate the fish filets with 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, and 1 tbsp mustard oil and coat the two sides of filets with it as displayed in the pic. Keep it to the side.

Instructions to make fish paturi masala
For making paturi masala, first, douse 2 tbsp dark mustard seeds, 1 tbsp yellow mustard seeds and 1 tbsp poppy seeds in water for 15 mins.

Strain 6 tbsp curd (to make hung curd) to eliminate the overabundance water from the curd.
Furthermore, keep the sifter on a bowl as displayed in the pic.
Leave it for 10-15 mins.
However, on the off chance that you are utilizing thick curd or even hung curd, don't have to strain it.

Make a glue of drenched mustard seeds and poppy seeds with 1/2 tsp salt, and 10 cashew nuts.

Later adding 4 green chillies and the curd (in the wake of eliminating the water) with the mustard glue.
Make a smooth glue out of it. As displayed in the pic.

Then add the 1/2 cup or 8 tsp ground coconut with the masala glue and mix it well to make a fine glue. As displayed in the pic.

Blend the masala with marinated fish filets
Presently empty the glue into a blending bowl, blend 1 tsp turmeric, a little salt(as per taste) and 2 tbsp mustard oil to the masala glue. Blend it well.
Then, at that point, put the marinated bhetki filets into the masala glue and blend it well.

Marinate the fish filets for 20 mins.

The most effective method to wrap marinated bhetki fish in banana leaf
Eliminate the stem and wash the banana leaves completely from the two sides.
Then, at that point, somewhat cook the banana leaf on low intensity from the two sides.

Then, at that point, take each piece of banana leaf, first put 1 tbsp of mustard glue on the leaf then, at that point, put one marinated bhetki fish filet on the glue.

Put a glue from the highest point of the filet to cover the filet with the glue from the two sides.
Ultimately, put green chilli(slit) from the highest point of the filet.

Pleasantly crease or wrap the leaf to make a package and ensure that the glue ought to emerge from the wrap.
Then pleasantly attach the package with the cotton string to get the glue from trickling.

Instructions to Cook Bhetki paturi
Heat a container or skillet on low fire, add 1 tbsp mustard oil and well spread the oil over the dish or skillet.

Put the paturis in the skillet, yet don't stuff the container, in any case gets hard to turn the paturis.

Then delayed down the intensity and close the skillet with a top.

After 7-8 mins eliminate the top and turn over the paturis and cover the dish by and by.

Sit tight for more than 7-8 mins to get it cooked from the opposite side.
At the point when all the paturis are appropriately broiled from the two sides, switch off the intensity.
Bhetki macher paturi is prepared, serve this Bengali dish with sizzling hot steamed white rice or basmati rice.

Enjoy 😋

Nikitasa Mishra
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