Small Fish Fry
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
Course:
Side Dish
Cuisine:
South Indian
Keyword:
Small Fish Fry, South Indian Fish Fry, Village fish fry recipe
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Any small fish - 12 to 15 pieces
- Chilli powder - 2 tbsp
- Coriander powder - 1 tsp
- Cumin powder - 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
- Corn flour - 1 tbsp
- Rice flour -1 tbsp
- Lemon Juice - 1tbsp
- Salt - as per taste
Instructions
Method to prepare Small Fish Fry
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Wash the fishes nicely with salt and turmeric powder nicely. Drain the water. When most of the water got drained, add half the amount of the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, ginger garlic paste and turmeric and all the lemon juice and mix well. Apply this mixture inside the fishes. Leave it aside for 30 minutes.
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Small fish fry
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Add the remaining quantity of the powder and the corn and rice flours and mix well, so that fishes are well coated. Leave it again for another 10 minutes.
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Small fish fry
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Now in a fish frying pan, add the oil and when it is hot, slowly drop one fish at a time and start frying them on both the sides, till they become golden brown colour on all the sides. Do fry the fishes in small batches.
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Small fish fry
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Once you finished frying the fish, fry some curry leaves in the same oil and add on to the small fish fry before serving. Serve the fish fry with the hot hot fish kuzhambu and white rice.
Recipe Notes
1. You can prepare this fish fry, with any kind of fishes.
2. Marinating the fish is important as it gives more taste to the fish fry recipe. So try to marinate atleast 30 to 40 minutes.
3. Adding corn flour and rice flour, increases the crispiness of the fish and also can reduce the spiciness, when giving to the kids. If you do not like it, you can just omit it.
4. Adding lemon juice, gives a mild tangy flavor to the fish. If you do not like it, you can very well omit that too.