Steamed butter fish in banana leaf

Ingredients:-

1. Butter fish-4-5
2. coconut -1tbsp(grated)
3. green chilly-7-8
4. ginger-1inch piece
5. garlic-5-6 cloves
6. coriander leaves-1tbsp
7. mint leaves- 1tbsp
8. cumin seeds-1tsp
9. Turmeric-1/2tsp
10. salt to taste
11. lemon-1

Method

• Clean and make some slits  on the fish.Apply lemon juice,salt and turmeric and keep side for 10min.
• In the mean time make a coarse paste from 2 to 8 no ingredients .
• Now apply this to marinated fish and  keep aside.
• Make 4-5 pieces of banana leaf and start wrapping.
• Place each fish on the banana leaf along with some paste and  fold the banana leaf and intact with the toothpick. 

Fish before wrapping

wrapped fish

• Now heat a frying pan and keep one by one wrapped fish and cover  with a lid , cook over a low flame for 10 mins.If you feel banana leaf is burning add a table spoon of water and cover again.let it steam in its own juice.
• Serve hot with rice and fish curry.

fish after steaming