Machher jhol

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    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Bengali Cooking: Seasons & Festivals

By Chitrita Banerji

Published 1997

  • About

The jhol can be cooked in a hundred different ways, but its frequent appearance in the menu has made it the most well-known Bengali dish. It is a thin stew, usually of fish, though it can also be purely vegetarian. But the fish in a jhol is always combined with vegetables. Though several different ground spices are used in cooking jhol, a good one’s most important quality is its lightness. Too heavy a hand with the spices will ruin it. At the same time, bad cooks can also produce watery, ta

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