Ghalieh Mahi is a famous south stew and the protein of this delicious stew is fish. In the southern cities of Iran, people in each city make this food with a special type of fish like mackerel or groupers, red snapper, and other types of fish, but it depends on you to choose your favorite option to make Ghalieh Mahi.
Ghalieh Mahi is a nutritious dish rich in vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, and many other nutrients. Note that fish with very soft meat is unsuitable for preparing this dish and use large pieces of fish without bones. Let’s take a look at the recipe for this delectable dish
Ingredients:
. 500g fish fillet
. 250g fresh cilantro
. 50g fresh fenugreek
. 6 cloves garlic
. 250g tamarind
. 1 medium onion
. 1 teaspoon turmeric
. 2 tablespoons wheat flour
. Salt and red pepper to taste
. Oil
For cooking a tasty fish stew, first, wash the fish fillets and flavor them with salt, second, choose a suitable bowl and soak tamarind with 2 glasses of water and 2 spoons of flour in the bowl. To start cooking, chop the onion and fry them in a pot with oil when the onion turns golden, grate garlic cloves and fry grated garlic in the onion pan with turmeric, pepper, and salt.
Pick the fresh cilantro and fenugreek and finely chop them, then add chopped herbs to the onion pot. Fry all the ingredients well following that pour half a glass of water into the pot and let the herbs cook. In this step after cooking herbs, the tamarind that you put with water and flour is soaked, pass it through a strainer pour the paste into the cooking pot, again add another glass of water to the remaining tamarind and pass it through the strainer and pour it into the pan, that is three glasses of water in total.
We do not close the pot but leave it half open. When the water is boiled wash the fish fillet and add pieces to the stew pot. The pot should remain half-open until the fish is cooked, the cooking time of the stew depends on the type of fish, it usually cooks between 20 and 30 minutes, after that, reduce the flame and let the Ghalieh Mahi simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. After 10 to 15 minutes your flavorful Ghalieh Mahi is ready and you can serve this attractive food.
Side Dishes:
Iranian rice
The cooked rice is the best option for serving with Ghalieh Mahi, especially if you add saffron rice garnish to your dish!
Sabzi Khordan always is a good side dish for stews
Date
Iranian, specifically southern people serve Ghalieh Mahi with date
Another tradition among southern people is to serve Ghalieh Mahi with a combination of sesame butter and grape syrup. That is the best and sweetest choice with this dish, I recommend you
