Name: Fish With Bamboo Shoot
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 500 gms fish; 15 green chillies or as per taste; 2 inches ginger; 10 Garlic cloves; 3 tablespoon Bamboo Shoot shredded or minced; Salt; Water as required

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Fish With Bamboo Shoot is a Naga speciality dish which is very famous and one of the most popular dish in Naga Cuisine. It is a traditional recipe. It is a zero oil dish. Very tasty, flavorful, exotic dish and healthy as well. It is a simple and easy recipe. The fish is boiled along with few basic ingredients till it is cook and water is evaporated completely. It is a dry side dish perfect with steam curry along with curries or dal.

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Served AsDinner, Lunch

CuisineIndian, Sea Food

Servings

Ingredients

Instructions

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In a pan add the cleaned fish.
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Coarsely ground the green chillies, ginger and garlic and add them to the fish. Add the Bamboo Shoot to the pan.
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Add salt as per taste and gently mix them well together.
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Add required water covering the fish completely.
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Cover the pan and cook on medium flame till the water is completely evaporated approx 15-20 mins.
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Your boiled fish with bamboo shoots is ready. Let it cool down completely and gently spoon them in a serving dish and serve with steamed rice.

Notes

If one cannot source Bamboo Shoot you can substitute Bamboo Shoot with tomatoes.

At the end of the preparation you can add some chopped coriander leaves as garnish, traditionally we don’t add them but with passage of time people started adding them as garnish.

This dish is served best the next day.

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