Shutki, Katwa Data Kumro diye—Bengali Bombay Duck recipe with vegetables

Shutki or dried fish is a delicacy in Bengal like many other parts of South Asia. This particular family recipe is a pachmishali torkari—cooked with a “medely of vegetables”—amped up a notch with shutki. We are using dried loitta fish, also known as Bombil or Bombay duck in other parts of India, but you can use any dried fish you like.

The main vegetables that my grandmother used in this recipe are katwa data (which is a type of amaranth that is grown for its fleshy stems), and sweet pumpkin. It is also a bit unusual for a pachmishali in our family to use onion and garlic, but this one does because they pair well with the strong flavours of dried fish.

If you are cooking this is late in summer or during the monsoons, definitely include jackfruit seeds (kathal’er beej) which are abundant during this time as ripe jackfruits are in season.

🌾 We’ve served shutkir pachmishali with Mohanshal rice from Amar Khamar: https://www.amar-khamar.com/products/mohanshal
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🎬 Shutki bata: https://youtu.be/Du6Bsj2s47Y
🎬 Pachmishali dal: https://youtu.be/D1T4i7mo928
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