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Bengali Fish Curry Recipe - Rohu रोहू मछली Rui Macher Jhol - Kalia

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Bengali Fish Curry Recipe - Rohu रोहू मछली Rui Macher Jhol - Kalia
This is great fish curry that we always love making. Rohu is a fresh water type of river carp and is very popular in Bangladesh and many parts of India. There are not many spices that go into this super massala. Gve it ago and let us know how you get on.
Rohu or roho labeo (Labeo rohita, Hindi and Nepali - रोहू मछली, Oriya - is a species of fish of the carp family, found in rivers in South Asia It is an omnivore. It is called rahu in Maithali and Nepali. In Hindi it is called rehu (rawas is the Indian Salmon, which is quite different). It is called rohi in Oriya, rui in Bengali,rehu in Latin Nepali (now extinct), rou in Assamese and Sylheti, rohu itself in Madhesh, Nepal as well as in Thailand, Bangladesh, northern India , Pakistan and Myanmar. It is a non-oily/white fish in Nepal and India. It reaches a maximum length of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of about 110 kg (240 lb). It may reach even greater weights in the northern part of Nepal. Rohu is very commonly eaten in Bangladesh ; the Nepalese states of Mithila and Limbuwan ; and the Indian states of Bihar, Odisha, Assam, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. The Maithil Brahmins and the Kayastha community of Nepal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh treats it as one of their most sacred foods, to be eaten on all auspicious occasions. Rohu is the most commonly used fish in Pakistan and is usually eaten fried, or in a sauce with spices. The roe of rohu is also considered a delicacy in Bhojpur, Andhra Pradesh, Maithili, Oriyas and Bengalis. It is deep fried and served hot as an appetizer as part of an Bihari, Oriya and Bengali meal. It is also stuffed inside a pointed gourd to make potoler dolma which is considered a delicacy. Rohu is also served deep fried in mustard oil, as kalia, which is a rich gravy made of a concoction of spices and deeply browned onions and tok, where the fish is cooked in a tangy sauce made of tamarind and mustard. Rohu is also very popular in northern India and Pakistan, as in the province of Punjab. In Lahore it is a speciality of Lahori cuisine in "Lahori fried fish" where it is prepared with batter and spices. It is also a very popular food fish in Iraq.
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