Skip to main content

BM #1 - AAE - Day 5 - Easy Peasy Fish Fry

I am a seafood lover. I love fishes of all varieties, with bones or without bones, doesn't matter. I have the enormous patience to remove each bone from the fish and relish it to the core. Prawns and crabs are my all time favorites. I have never cooked prawns or crabs so far, but I thoroughly love eating them. On my recent trip to Goa, I had a great time digging into some awesome Goan Prawn Curry, crab masala, squids. Heavenly!

My exposure to eating fish dates back to my childhood days in Asansol where our neighbors would make fish everyday for their meal. Hop into to anyone's house, and you will find fish being fried in mustard oil. Its nostalgic! I acquired my fish eating skills from then.

At home, everybody prefers the non bones variety of fishes as its the easiest to eat. Cooking any type of seafood is the easiest. It takes less than 10-15 mins to cook unlike meat.

This recipe is very easy and tastes fantastic.

Ingredients:

1/2 kg fish, cut, cleaned and drained (I have used Black Pomfret)

Dry Spice Rub:
1 tsp cumin,
3 tsp whole coriander,
1 tbsp pepper corns,
1- 2 cloves,
1 cinnamon sticks,
1 tsp turmeric powder,
Salt as per taste

Wet Spice Rub:
2-3 green chillies,
1 inch ginger,
6 garlic pods,
1/2 lemon juice


Method:
  1. Dry roast all the dry ingredients. Once cooled, grind it into a fine powder.
  2. Grind all the wet ingredients and set it aside.
  3. Marinate the fish by using the wet ingredients and about 2-3 tbsp of the dry spice rub. Add salt as per taste and leave it for about 2 hours.
  4. Shallow fry on a non-stick pan until cooked. 
  5. Serve hot.
I serve this as a starter. You could pair this up with a fish gravy dish served along with steamed rice.

Read more about my blogging marathon, here and here

Hop over at my SIL's blog as she is running this Marathon with me.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Authentic Bhajani Chakli | Chakli Recipe | Maharashtrian Chakli Recipe

 Chakli is a delightfully scrumptious snack that is often made in India during Diwali festival. Also known as Chakri, these spiral shaped crunchy snacks are made using the perfect blend of lentils and spices. Deep fried to a golden brown perfection, chaklis are lightly spiced with turmeric and chili packing in an explosion of flavors in every bite. Different parts of India have variations of this recipe. For example, in South India, Murukku(Chakli) is made using rice flour and a mild seasoning of salt and asafoetida. In Gujarat, Chakri is made with whole wheat flour or rice flour. In Maharashtra it is made with Bhajani, a special homemade flour. Chakli is easily one of the most popular Indian Diwali snack AKA faral and is best enjoyed with a piping hot cup of tea. What is Bhajani? Traditional Maharashtrian Chakli is made with a special homemade flour of rice and lentils called Bhajani. Rice and lentils are washed, air dried and then dry roasted over slow heat along with cu...

Nimki Recipe| Namak Pare Recipe

Nimki / Namak pare is a crispy, crunchy, flaky, savory snack. Bengali's call it Nimki but in other parts of India, they also known as Namak pare, Nimkin, Namkin, etc. The recipe calls for very few ingredients, one of them is all purpose flour or maida. To make a batch of crunchy Nimki all you need is proper proportion of ingredients and little patience while frying them. Do give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.        This is a great tea time snack also and doesn't require a festival to make this. However, during Indian festivities, we tend to make this as one of the savory snack for all to enjoy. Ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour / maida, 4 tbsp of melted ghee, 1 tsp kalonji / nigella seeds Salt as per taste, Warm water for kneading Oil for deep frying Method: In a mixing bowl, add the flour, salt, kalonji and ghee. Mix everything really well for 1-2 minutes with your hand. The flour should resemble the texture of bread crum...

Walnut Brownie

I feel like a newbie all over again. I've not updated this blog for more than 2 years now. Its just that my schedule has become pretty hectic now. But I've made a promise to myself to update atleast 1 post per week. In this post, I'm sharing my Walnut Brownie recipe with you. Its the most amazing recipe I have and I have always received overwhelming response from all my customers for this one. Since its New Years, I decided to make Walnut Brownies instead of the regular cakes or cookies. Ingredients: 80 gms  cooking butter , 150 gms  dark cooking chocolate , broken into pieces, 3  eggs , 120 gms  castor sugar , 1 tsp  vanilla essence , 80 gms  flour , 20 gms  cocoa powder , 1/2 tsp  baking powder , 1/4 cup roasted walnuts , coarsely chopped, Method: 1.) Preheat the oven to 175 degrees, for 10 mins. 2.) Grease a baking tin ( 9 x 9 inch) with butter and line with butter paper. 3.) Stir the butter and choco...