Northeast Indian

Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry)

Name: Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry)
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 1.5 lb fish steaks (rohu or similar); 2 tbsp mustard oil; 1 potato; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 1/2 tsp cumin seeds; 2 green chili; 1 tsp ginger paste; 2 cups water; 1 tsp salt

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium Heart healthy Pescatarian Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb fish steaks (rohu or similar)
2 tbsp mustard oil
1 potato
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
2 green chili
1 tsp ginger paste
2 cups water
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Rub the fish with a little turmeric and salt and let it sit for 10 minutes.
Heat the mustard oil in a pan and shallow fry the fish pieces briefly, then set them aside.
In the same oil, let the cumin seeds sizzle, then add the ginger paste and cut potato and stir for a minute.
Add the remaining turmeric, water, slit green chilies, and salt, and simmer until the potato is nearly tender, about 12 minutes.
Slide the fish back into the thin broth and simmer gently until just cooked through, about 8 minutes.
Serve hot with plain rice; this is the plainer, everyday counterpart to the sour tenga.

Watch how to cook Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry)

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Serve it with

A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
  
  25 min
The protein alongside
- Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils)
  
  45 min
What it is eaten with
- Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge)
  
  40 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 230 kcal
Protein: 24 g
Carbs: 10 g
Fat: 10 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 470 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Machor Jhol (Mild Everyday Fish Curry) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.