Fish Oil Fritters

No matter how fancy a name I give to this recipe, Fish Oil Fritters or Mache’r Teler Bora is a Bengali speciality. There are various versions for this recipe as it differs from every household in Bengal. Â
Usually the fish seller will help you by cleaning the fish well and give you the fat/ oil of the fish from either Rohu, Katla or Hilsa (Hilsa is the best of course) – which should be cooked within the same day as it starts to smell even if kept in the freezer.
My mum makes a simple recipe and here’s her version.
Ingredients:
- Fish Oil – depending on the amount you get from the fish
- Salt to taste
- Rice flour or wheat flour
- Green Chillis – 1 -2 finely chopped
- Onions – 1 small no. finely chopped
- Onion seeds – 1 tsp
- Mustard oil – for shallow frying
- Coriander leaves – finely chopped

Method:
- Mix all the ingredients of the fish oil/ fat in a bowl.
- The rice flour/ wheat flour is added to give a crispy texture to the fritters else it will break during frying.
- Make small dumplings and gently place them in the hot oil.
- Gently move the fritter to see if the bottom part has turned golden brown.
- Turn it around to cook the other side.
- Serve hot with ghee rice, green chilli, masoor daal and rice combination.
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Simply awesome.kichhu din agei baniyechhilam
Absolutely! These are such wonderful recipes 🙂