Thursday, March 12, 2009

Fish Fry (spicy south indian fish fry )

Ingredients:
Fish 1/2 kg (5 pieces)
chilli powder - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
salt as required
lemon juice - 1 tbsp
oil - 4 0r 5 tbsp
Grind roughly:
small onion - 3
garlic - 3
curry leaves few
fennel seeds (sombu ) -1/2 tsp
cumin seeds ( seerakam ) - 1/2 tsp
peppercorn ( milaku ) - 1 tsp

method:

Mix all the ingredients and make a paste with some water.
Rub the paste on the fish and leave it to marinate for at least 2 or 3 hours.
Heat oil in a pan and add the marinated fish and cook them on slow flame until it becomes crisp on bothsides.
serve hot as a side dish with steamed white rice,curry,Rasam,sambar.

Tip:
You can also deep fry the fish but if you want to use less oil in your fish you can just do the step I mentioned above.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

hey the fish looks really yummmy..
but which fish is this ?

Shanthi said...

Thank u so much.
The Fish name is Tilapia.
I bought live tilapia fish from Asian Food Center in New Jersey.

navamani said...

Use this style with halibut fish comes out excellent..