Fish fry (Mumbai/Bombay and Malwani style)

This is a simple and easy to make recipe. Mumbai is famous for fish and I just love Pomfret and Kingfish. Try this spicy and delicious recipe.

  

    

Preparation :

Step A : Cleaning the fish

1. You can select small Pomfret fish with cut marks or Kingfish steaks or Pomfret steaks. 
2. Clean and wash the fish well in running tap water. 
3. Then add salt to the fish and keep aside.

Step B : Marination

1. Soak in water red Kashmiri chillies (7 nos) , coriander seeds (1 tbspn), garlicpods (3-4 nos) , cumin seeds (1 tbspn) and fennel seeds (1 tbspn) for half an hour. 
2. In a blender add the above soaked ingredients and malwani masala powder (1 tspn) and grind to a fine paste.
3. Marinate the fish with the above paste. Add salt (1 tspn) and lemon juice (1 tbspn) to it. Fill the cut marks properly with the paste.
4. Keep the marinated fish aside for 20 mins.

Cooking :

Step C : Frying

1. Spread out rice flour on a plate (1cup) 
2. Add to the flour, semolina (3 tbspn)  malwani masala powder (1 tspn) , salt (2-3 pinches), turmeric        (1 tspn) mix the dry flour well. .
3. Wrap the marinated fish in this flour. 
4. Heat oil on a flat griddle or tava and shallow fry the fish. 
5. Sprinkle some lemon juice on the fish.
6. Fry fish till it is crispy and brown. 
7. Turn over and fry for some more time. 
8. Shallow fry the fish from all sides. 
9. Look for the desired brown or golden brown charring.

Recipe: Non vegetarian

      Preparation time : 30 mins

      Cooking time : 15 mins

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Please use this recipe as a guideline and use your discretion to make the recipe or to make a substitution in the recipe. As results vary according to one's skills.