Ilish Pulao Recipe - Bengali Style Hilsa Fish Pilaf

Ilish Pulao Recipe (Bengali Style Hilsa Fish Pilaf) is an extremely fragrant and delicious Bengali style Fish Pilaf cooked with Ilish mach or Hilsa. This flavoursome Bangladeshi delicacy is one of the traditional dishes of Bangladesh.

This popular Bengali fish pilaf has quite unique combination of earthy flavours of fresh ilish and classic taste of Bengali gota groom moshla (whole garam masala).

Here Ilish or Hilsa is cooked in Mishti Doi and Coconut milk along with rice and mild spices. This Hilsa Pulao is not sweet at all, I’m assuring you! Things will get a fine balance by end of cooking.

Serve Ilish Pulao Recipe (Bengali Style Hilsa Fish Pilaf) along with Tadka Raita Recipe (Spiced Curd With Onions) and end your meal with Bengali Sita Bhog Recipe.

If you like this recipe, try more Pulao Recipes that you can make for your everyday meals:

1. Prawns Pulao Recipe (Marinated Prawns in Spiced Rice)
2. Yakhni Pulao With Chicken Recipe
3. Bhopali Style Gosht Ka Pulao Recipe