The Food Diary-Spicy Chettinad Fish Fry

 

It's Sunday.Let's rock 'n' roll with some amazing spicy home-cooked food. 
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|In frame|~~Spicy Chettinad Fish Fry.🐟🐠
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A super delicious South Indian cuisine that can be served as a side dish with meals or as a starter before meals.❤️

Ingredients:

For 4 serving, 500 gm fish is needed.

Marination

Salt as per taste

1 sprig curry leaves

20 gms tamarind soaked in water.

4-5 onion shallots

6-7 pods of garlic

2 tsp cumin seeds

2 tsp fennel seeds

1 tsp black pepper seeds

1 tsp coriander seeds

10 no.s of cloves

12 no.s of whole Kashmiri chillis

1 tsp turmeric powder

1/2 tsp asafoetida

Method: 

1. Wash thoroughly the fish pieces in running water and keep them aside.

1. Dry roast all the whole masalas along with turmeric and asafoetida. Ground them into a fine powder.

2. Then make a fine paste of shallots, garlic, curry leaves and soaked pulp of tamarind.

3. Mix the ground masala powder with the paste in a mixing bowl properly to make a thick paste. Add salt as per taste.

4. Smear every fish pieces with the spicy paste on both sides. Give a nice thick coat to get the Chettinad effect.

5. Marinate for atleast 20 minutes.

6. After 20 mins. heat 5 tbps oil in a pan for shallow frying.

7. When one side is done properly flip the fish carefully to the other side. Continue frying till cooked and crisp.

8. Once done nicely, squeeze some lemon juice over the pieces and serve hot.

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