Machher Matha diye Bandhacopi (Cabbage Curry with Fish Head)

Cabbage is a vegetable which can be cooked as a vegetable and non vegetable both dishes.Here I have given the recipe of non-veg dish which can be cooked with the head of fish. It is a palatable dish and you may taste it with rice, roti or paratha whatever you like.

   

• Ingredients
• 1. Cabbage 500gm.(chop it well)
• 2.Potatoes 250gm.(cut into pieces)
• 3.Head of fish 2 pieces (marinated with salt & turmeric powder)
• 4.tomato grated 1(big)
• 5.Ginger paste of a small piece
• 6.Cumin powder 4 tea spoons
• 7.Turmeric powder 1 & 1/2 tea spoons
• 8.Garam masala (powder of the mixture of cardamon, cinnamon and clove) 1tea spoon
• 9.Salt & sugar as required
• 10.Oil, bay leaves and cumin seeds (a little)

Preparation
           1.Heat the oil in a pan. Fry the fish head (not very deeply) and keep it aside.
           2.Add a pinch of cumin seeds and two bay leaves to the oil and with that put the potato
                pieces also.
           3. Stir it for 1 minute & give the chopped cabbage and the grated tomato into it and 
                   cover it for 5 minutes in light flame to be boiled.
            4.Now adding the ginger paste first and then cumin powder, the turmeric powder &   
                     salt one after another, stir it well & cover it for another 5 minutes also in light 
                       flame.
            5. Now add the fish head and sugar as required and 2/3 pieces green chilly to it when 
                        the cabbage will be fully boiled.
            6.Finally add the garam masala with the soft cabbage curry.
            7.Take a quick sniff of it and taste it with rice or roti.