Spicy Indian Fish Fry Recipe

South Indian Masala Fish Fry

By shriya on Sep 8, 2008 in Featured, Fish Dishes, Meat & Seafood Entrées

Growing up relatively close to a coastal town in Tamilnadu - Kadalur, we had plenty of access to fresh seafood. One of the main items in a complete South Indian seafood meal is fish fry. It has to be one of the easiest yet can made be made in different varieties.

This particular recipe is from my mother-in-law and is very close to my tongue.. er.. heart. It goes great with Chicken/Mutton Briyani and Fish Curry.

Ingredients:

Fish : 4 slices (you can use any fish, but in this recipe I have used Cat fish)
Oil : 1/2 cup
Onion: 1 (medium)
Tomatoes : 2
Ginger : 1″
Garlic : 3
Tamarind : 1/4 cup (Extract From a lemon sized ball of tamarind)
Red chili powder : 2 tbsp (according to your spice level)
Salt : required to taste
Turmeric powder : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds: 1 tsp (optional)
Coriander leaves: few springs

Method of Preparation:

Grind chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, ginger & garlic and few springs of coriander leaves in to a fine paste.
Now 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)

Fish fry

Now 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 and add the marinated fish one by one and cook until it becomes crisp on both sides.

Fish Fry3

Note:

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.

Awards:

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This time we are honored by Lubna Karim of Kitchen Flavors. She passed this lovely, wonderful “Wylde Woman Award” to us.

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9 Responses to “South Indian Masala Fish Fry”

shibani September 8th, 2008, 10:46 pm

The curry looks really good and lip smacking Shriya.
notyet100 September 9th, 2008, 2:00 pm

fish fry looksyum,…nd thnks for the award,..;-)
Cham September 9th, 2008, 2:10 pm

Ur fish fry is really tasty I am drooling, I am from ur neighb place Pondy !
karuna September 9th, 2008, 5:39 pm

tht is a lovely recipe. thanks so much for the lovely award. i wanted to ask u if i could put a link to this recipe in my blog post
http://myluvforfood.blogspot.com/2008/08/indian-cooking-101-regional-foods-part.html
just email me at karunakhera@rediffmail.com. thanks so much once again.
sangeeth September 9th, 2008, 7:11 pm

tasty fry..and thanks for passing the award to me…
jayasree September 10th, 2008, 12:52 am

Thanks for thinking of me while passing the award.
Aartee September 10th, 2008, 10:10 am

Hey guys, thanks a lot! and shriya nice yummy recipe yaar!
Priti September 10th, 2008, 10:17 am

Wow the fish fry looking so delicious…have bookmarked the recipe
Sridevi November 6th, 2008, 2:01 pm

hii shriya thanks for ur receipe… this fish fry is really good..
Sridevi
Chicago,US