Name: South Indian Masala Fish Fry(Meen)
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 4 slices Fish (you can use any fish, but in this recipe I have used Cat fish); 1/2 cup Oil; 1 no Onion (medium); 2 nos Tomatoes; Ginger (An inch piece); 3 nos Garlic pods; 1/4 cup Tamarind (extract From a lemon sized ball of tamarind); 2 tbsp Red chilli powder; Salt (As reqd); 1 tsp Turmeric powder; 1 tsp Cumin seeds (optional, Jeerakam); Coriander leaves (A few sprigs)

South Indian Masala Fish Fry(Meen)

South Indian Masala Fish Fry

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine Tamil

Servings people

Ingredients

4 slices Fish you can use any fish, but in this recipe I have used Cat fish
1/2 cup Oil
1 no Onion medium
2 nos Tomatoes
Ginger An inch piece
3 nos Garlic pods
1/4 cup Tamarind extract From a lemon sized ball of tamarind
2 tbsp Red chilli powder
Salt As reqd
1 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Cumin seeds optional, Jeerakam
Coriander leaves A few sprigs

Instructions

Grind chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, ginger & garlic and few springs of coriander leaves into a fine paste.
Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, salt and tamarind water into the paste.
:- You can add a little water into the mixture to make it a loose paste. The consistency of the paste should be thin.
Add the fish slices into the paste and marinate overnight or you can let it stand in the fridge for atleast 4 hours.
Heat oil in a flat pan.
Add the marinated fish one by one and cook until it becomes crisp on both sides.
:- 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. :- You can just dump some extra masala mixture on top of the fish while you fry.

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South Indian Masala Fish Fry(Meen)