Manipuri Fresh Water snail curry

THAROI THONGBA

Manipuri Special Fish curry cuisine

NGA  ATOIBA THONGBA

Nga atoiba thongba is one of the famous dish in Manipur.My mum taught me how to prepared this dish at my childhood. It is less spicy and easy to prepared  and also one of the delicious food for manipuris ,so i would like to share  the recipe and how to prepared it.

Hope everyone will like it

RECIPE

1. 1kg of catala(carp) or  any medium size fish.
2. 300 gms of potato(3 to 4 pieces of potato)

3.300gm of tomatoes(3 normal size tomato).

4.50gm of garlic(1 and half  piece of garlic).

5.400gm of onion(4 normal size tomato).

6.20gm of green chillies.

7.5gm of dry red chilly(3 pieces of dry chilly)

8.50gm of ginger.

9.10gm of coriander leaves.

10.1/2tsp of red chilly powder

11.1tsp of  turmeric powder.

12.1tsp of  cumin seeds (jeera).

13.3 piece of Malabar leaf(Tejbata leaf).

14.4tsp of oil.
15.1/2 tsp of Heeng

16.salt for taste.
17.20gm of peas.


METHOD OF PREPARATION

1.Cut the fish into small pieces (10 cm square).

2.Chop the peel onion and  potato into four pieces each.

3.Chop the tomato into four pieces each. 

4.Chop green chillies into half vertically. 

5.Grind the peel garlic and ginger in a mixer to form a paste.

6.Heat the oil in the non stick pan and add heeng after a 30 sec.

7. After 5 sec add  Malabar leaf(Tejbata leaf) ,  jeera and red chillies. 

8.Add onion after 5 sec and then using a spatula mix them thoroughly at the pan for 1min . 

9.After the onion turn slightly brown add ginger garlic past and  chopped  green chillies and then mix again for a 1min then add the chopped  potato and peas and then mix and fry for around 5 min.

10.Add the fish pieces to the pan and mix altogether and fry for a 5min and then add  turmeric powder, red chilly powder and salt and mix altogether and fry  for 5 min.

11.Add chopped tomatoes  mix and fry for a while till the tomatoes get half cook . 

12.Add two cup of water and stir altogether two to three times then cover the frying pan.

13 Reduce the flame of the gas  very low and wait for another 15 min until the potato is fully cook and the gravy  is little reduce.

14 .Now off the gas and add the chopped  coriander leaves on  the top of the  curry.

 NOW YOUR NGA ATOIBA TONGBA IS READY
                     ALL THE BEST

Manipuri Special green curry

Chagempomba

Manipuri Green Pizza

PAKNAM

Dear friends PAKNAM is one of the famouse dishes in Manipur(imphal) ,like pizza we can make PAKNAM of various kind.It is easy to prepared and a very healthy food.I will share you the reciepe and method of preparation.

RECIEPE:

• 250gm of chickpea flour (besan).
• Chop 50gm of green chillies.
• Chop 100 gm of garlic Chives(maroi napakpi).
• Chop 50 gm of spring onion.
• Chop 100gm of mushroom.
• 1tsp of turmerric powder.
• 1tsp of salt.
• 2 large banana leaves.

METHOD OF PREPARATION:


STEP-1:
Mix besan with water to form a paste.
STEP-2:
Add  chop green chillies,garlic chives,spring onion,mushroom,turmeric powder,salt and mix throughly with your hands for 2min so that all the ingredient got mix properly with the besan paste.
STEP-3:
Spread the two banana leaves and join them so that nothing leak out. Then put the mix besan paste on the spred banana leaves and make a square or round shape of the paste with your hands,
STEP-4:
Now cover up the paste with the banana leaves without breaking the shape of the paste.Then tie the banana leave with a tooth pick or a pin.Now put it on the pan for ten min and then turn the side of it .so for every ten min tuen the  side till it got cook properly.
Good Luck!