Saturday, May 17, 2008

Fish Egg Pakodas

Yesterday night I made Ilish again. This ilish had eggs and every bengali knows what a delicacy fish eggs are. A lot of fuss is made over fish eggs since its not always that one finds bonus fish eggs. When I was in India and living with my parents in Lucknow, I remember my mother bargaining over fish eggs which were sold separatley according to its weight. Ilish maach is a medium size fish and an expensive one so to find eggs within is a big time bonus. The last Ilish did not have eggs so to find this one with eggs made me happy. While washing and scaling the fish I also took out the eggs and thought of making some fried pakodas of them. Since the fish would be bhapa (steamed), frying the eggs sounded better to me.
After cleaning and separating I realized there was not much of eggs left. I remembered what my mom would do at home so that everyone could relish the special dish instead of a few ones. For me in present times it means to prolong delicacy session.

So this is how I made ilish egg pakodas.
Ingredients:
Besan- Half tsp
onion- little bit according to the amount of eggs
green chilli- 1
ginger-slight touch
pinch of salt, turmeric, red chilli
Procedure
Heat the oil in a tiny wok. mix all the above properly make tiny patties and place it lightly in the heated wok. let them turn them golden. Ready, yum, yum !!