Ilish fish / Hilsa Curry

A quick, simple, easy-to-make, Ilish curry that uses only a handful of ingredients is ideal for fresh, flavourful hilsa (or ilish). What better way to enjoy the delectable flavours of the season's freshest hilsa than prepare it in a light curry with just six simple ingredients? Try this easy recipe for ilish machh'er tel jhol today! It requires no special technique and can be cooked very quickly.

Ilish or hilsa, is however, is facing extinction due to high demand and overfishing. There is a need to create more consciousness about the importance of conserving a fish that is perhaps Bengal's greatest cultural icon.