Muri Ghonto ( Fish Heads cooked with Rice )

Preparation time	30 min min
Time taken	45 -60 min
Serves	Serves 4
Ingredients	• Potatoe -1 big diced to 10/12 peices , one cup of rice soaked ( deradun rice, kamini atop) • 1big fish head preferably rohu / katla • Ghee (cooking oil) 2-3 tbsp . • Tomatoe paste 2/3 tsp,onion paste 1/2 tsp,garlic paste ½ tsp • Paste of red chili 1/2tsp .depending on how spicy you want it to be  • Tez patta (Bay leaf) 2 nos.made into small peices •  garam masala 1½ tsp • Cummin powder 1 tsp • Coriander powder 1 tsp • Yoghurt/dahi/malai -2 tsp • Ginger paste 1 ½ tsp. • Green chili (whole) 2/3 nos. to be added one the vegetable is half-cooked . • Turmeric powder ½ tsp. • Salt to taste , ( sugar half spoon - optional)
Steps	Peel , wash and cut one big potatoe into10/12 pieces  of equal size. Mix the potatoes with salt and turmeric and keep for 15/20 mins. Clean the fish head and make small peices, mix salt&turmeric and keep aside for 15/20 mins . Take mustard oil in a pan , fry the potatoes and the fish head separately. Now take 50ml of musturd oil in a kadhai ,and add½ tsp of cummin seed to it and add bay leaves  to it  once it starts crackling add the ginger,onion,tomatoe,garlic pastes to it and cook in low temp . In a separate pan mix all the speices , well together. Now  add the fish head to it along with the mixture of speices to it and cook in the slow fire till the same is completely fried and translucent to look at now mix the  the potatoes to it , at the same time add the rice to it & cooktill it  become tender and the spices are mixed well now add water . (for 500 gms of fish potatoes ideally one and half glass of water needs to be added , adding warm water is a better option , the proportion can be fixed per this ratio ) . Once the water boils and mixes up with the ingrdients in the kadhai completely add the ghee and garam masala.Once the rice is cooked & the potatoes / fish appear soft the cooking is done .
Garnish	Serve hot.
Benefits	It is easy to make yet is tasty and can be eaten with rice / roti/nan.