Zamin Doz Machhli

Prep time : 5 mins

Cook time : 15 mins

Total time : 15 mins

Author :Vahchef

Main Ingredient : fish

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Servings : 6 persons

Published date : November 27, 2016

Ingredients used in Zamin Doz Machhli

Method:

• First skin the fish neatly and wash it. Slit one side of the whole fish lengthwise. Apply salt to the fish after squeezing one. Keep the fish separately for about fifteen minutes. Mean while make a paste of ginger and garlic.
• Make a paste of blanched and peeled almonds, lightly roasted poppy seeds and chironji and desiccated coconut. Next, blanch and peel pistachio nuts. Chop it finer. Make a ground paste of mace, cardamom, cloves, and peppercorns.
• Take the edible color, dissolve it in a teaspoon of water and apply it to the marinated fish. Mix the above in a bowl along with the ingredients left, leaving the pistachio nuts and the stuff inside the fish. Take a flat earthenware dish and grease it with oil.
• Place the fish in it and tight cover it. Bury the dish below the ground. Take cow-dung care and fire on the ground above the dish. It can be also substituted with charcoal fire. Cook for five to six hours.
• Take out, open it and serve. Best to be served with roomali roti.