Bengali fish curry

INGREDIENTS:
4 fish pieces
2 table spoon mustard oil or vegetable oil for frying
salt to taste
sugar to taste (optional)
2 table spoon lemon juice2(optional)

For phoron
1/2 teaspoon panch phoron
1 bay leaf (tejpata)
1 red chillies whole

For masala paste
1 teaspoon ginger paste
2 teaspoon coriander powder
1 teaspoon cumin powder
1 tblsp red chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
mix all these with little water and keep aside.

Vegetables
i am not using potato.
1 carrot,6 beans, 1/2 raw banana
or
4 pieces of raw papaya or chayote squash, 8 pieces of cauliflower, green peas
or
4 pieces of raw papaya, 1/2 Ridge Gourd

1 green chillies
1 medium size tomato cut into pieces
fresh chopped coriander leaves for garnishing.


PROCESS:
First clean the fish pieces. Then marinate pieces with turmeric and salt. if you want you can put lemon juice also. keep it for 15 minutes.
Now heated up oil in a karai / pan. fry the pieces until light brown. keep aside.
Now put panch phoron, bay leaf and red chili whole in that remaining oil.
Now put the vegetables. fry for 5 minutes.
now put the masala paste. put tomato, green chili, salt and sugar. fry it until almost dry.
Now put water (how much gravy you want). let it boil for 5 minutes.
Now add fried fish to it. let it to boil for another 5 minutes.
serve this with fresh chopped coriander leaves.
Have it with fresh lemon.