Clean the rohu fish head.. marinate with salt and turmeric powder for 5-7 minutes.. add half of the mustard oil, then fry it properly..
Into the same pan, add rest of mustard oil, after smoke comes add paanch foron / bengali five spice, whole red chilli and whole bayleaf
Fry them for a minute.
Add ginger-garlic paste.. fry them until raw aromas are fully gone..
Add grated bottle gourd/lauki/lau.. mix them
Cover the pan.. fry them for 2-4 minutes on a medium flame..
Never add salt at first to lauki, as it's removes to much of water.. for this reason masalas can't go into the lauki.. and lauki becomes tasteless
After 4 minutes, add tomatoes, turmeric powder, green chilli paste, cumin powder, coriander powder
Mix them well and add fried rohu fish head
With the help of a spatula crack the rohu fish head.. so that flavours comes out..
Cover it again and cook it on a low flame until lauki are fully done
Lastly, add salt and sugar as per taste and spread coriander leaves..
Mix them all together..
Lauki Curry With Rohu Fish-head are ready to dig in