Tengra Fish with Thekera

In today's lunch, which was a weekend special, I wanted to have something sour but at the same time little bit less spicy. So I prepared one Assamese dish which fulfilled all my expectations.

Ingredients:

Tengra Fish - 4 cleaned tengra () Fish

Turmeric - 1 Tb spoon

Green chilies, Chopped - according to taste

Onion - 1 (small, chopped)

Jeera - 1/2 tea spoon (optional)

Jeera powder - a pinch

Dhania powder - 1/4th tea spoon

Mustard Oil

Salt to taste

The most important thing - Thekera

Method:

1. Put the "thekera" in a cup of water. A piece of thekera will give you one bowl of curry to serve one person.SO soak as much as you want. Keep for about 1/2 hour. For better tangy taste you can soak it whole nighte.

2. Mix the turmeric and salt with the fish. Fry the fish in oil lightly. Remove from pan.

In the same pan, Remove the extra oil, leaving about a table spoon behind and add onion; make the heat low.

3. When onion will be soft, add jeera. Put green chillies, jeera powder, dhania powder, turmeric powder & salt.

4. When fried, put the cup of water with "Thekera". Add extra cups of water (depending on the number of "Thekera" used). When it comes to boil, add fried fish and reduce flame

5. Let it simmer for some time (10-15 minutes), till the juice gets cooked and a tangy flavor comes out.

6. Garnish & serve with rice.