Dahi Maacha recipe: How to make the famous Odia dish at home

A journey to Odisha is incomplete without slurping the delicious Dahi Maacha. A perfect mixture of sweet and spicy taste, this dish will surely take you on a flavourful ride like never before. If you are a seafood lover, you would not like to miss on this recipe when you visit Odisha. A powerpack dish full of proteins, iron and fibres, is a perfect balance between rich taste and good health. Read on to know the quick and easy recipe of the dish.

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Dahi Maacha Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 gm Rohu fish pieces
• 2 Potato cut into long big pieces
• 1 cup Thick Curd
• 1 tsp Panch Phoron
• 4 Slited Green Chilli
• 3 cloves Crushed Garlic
• 2 Dry red Chilli
• Curry Leaves few
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
• Salt as per taste
• 4 tbsp Mustard oil
• For Masala paste
• 3 tbsp Yellow mustard seeds
• 1 tsp Poppy Seeds
• 1 tsp Cumin seeds
• 2 tbsp Fresh or Desiccated Coconut
• 6-7 Garlic cloves
• 2-3 Green Chilli

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Method:

• Marinate Rohu fish pieces with salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and add 1 tablespoon of mustard oil. Keep it for 15-20 minutes.
• Soak poppy seeds, yellow mustard seeds separately.
• Make a paste using mustard seeds, poppy seeds, cumin seeds, coconut, garlic and green chilli and mix well. 
• Add more green chilli if you want a more spicy taste.
• Take curd in a mixing bowl, add the prepared paste.
• Heat oil in a kadhai and add dry red chilli, curry leaves and mix well.
• When splutter, lower the gas, add the yoghurt mixture and stir continuously.
• When oil separates add 1-1/2cup of water, salt and turmeric powder and cook for a few minutes
•  When boil comes to add the fish pieces and potato pieces.
• Cook covered for 5mins.
• Check the fish pieces, turn the pieces carefully and cook further for 4-5 mins more. 
• Finally, add crushed garlic, slit green chilli and 1tbsp mustard oil(optional) on top and switch off.
• Dahi machha is ready and enjoy this creamy curry with steamed rice.

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