JHURI.
Smear powdered turmeric and salt with big pieces of fish and fry a little with oil. Break the pieces in small fragments while frying and remove the bones. Add ginger-juice, minced chillies and onions. Fry to crispness. Or, boil the pieces, remove the bones, mix with powdered or pasted chillies, onions, ginger, turmeric and salt, and fry in oil.
BOILED FISH
Rub powdered turmeric and salt on pieces of fish and boil in the minimum quantity of water. Remove the boned and mix to a paste with powdered mustard, mustard oil and a little more salt, if necessary. Serve with sliced onions.
SHRIMPS BOILED in RICE.
Required:—Shrimps 12 seer, salt, mustard and coriander 12 tola each, a few red chillies, a little turmeric and mustard oil.
Remove all the scales and the tips of the heads, and wash. Smear them with salt, oil and all the spices powdered, and wrap up a bit loosely with a few pieces of tender banana leaves making water-tight with a little flour-paste, if necessary. Drop it gently in boiling rice and take out when rice are boiled. They are delicious and extremely soft, but difficult to digest.
