Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf

Love sunday's as i have guests visiting our place and i get to try new stuff (Means new bakra's for my trials):P. I was craving for fish the whole week and had decided to prepare all fish delicacies today (Chicken ke liye break).We stay close to the conventional market and get awesome fresh fish. Here goes the menu to impress my guests -  Fish tawa fry, Steamed fish in banana leaf ,Fish Biriyani, Fish gravy with ragi balls. This was fish overload today:). To end with, had prepared Pepper rasam as soup. Now its time to say Yummy Tummy. Hope my tummy won’t crave for one week now.

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins
Cooking complexity :Medium

Ingredients:

Fish no bones – 1 Kg

Julien onion – 2

Green chilli – 10

Coriander Leaves – 200 gms

Mint Leaves – 100 gms

Jeera – 1 tbspn

Ginger – 1 Inch crushed well

Garlic – 10 pods crushed

Banana leaf: 1

Salt as per your taste

Method:

Clean Fish and slice them in to thin pieces.

Coarsely grind chillies, coriander leaves, mint leaves, jeera.

In a bowl mix the above ingredients with onions, salt, ginger & garlic.

Mix the fish in this and let it rest for 2 hours.

Cut the single banana leaf in to four. Place the fish with some of the above mixture and fold them well and tie them well using thread.

To steam: Heat water in a bowl , place a bowl and align the fish pockets in them . Close the lid.

Cook them on low flame until the banana leaf colour changes. It takes 30-35 mins.