Clean,wash and marinate fish with salt,turmeric and little mustard oil for 10 minutes.Grind to a thick paste mustard,curd,chopped coriander and 2 green chillies.Clean and wash bottle gourd leaves.Smear oil on the inside of each leaf.Coat each fish with the ground paste alongwith little salt and 1 tbsp mustard oil.Place fish on the leaves.
Fold the leaves so that masala does not ooze out.Tie the leaves tightly.Sprinkle 1 tbsp oil on a nonstick pan and pan fry the leaves in low flame covered so that fish is steamed inside.Flip the foil and cook the other side 5 minutes.Switch off flame.Cut the thread and serve paturi alongwith the edible leaves with steamed rice.
Mustard oil plays a vital role to cook this delicacy.
