Mathi meen fry | Sardines fish fry
Sardines fish fry recipe with ginger garlic masala.
Ingredients
- 500 g Sardines fish | Mathi meen
To Grind and make paste
- 2 Green chilli adjust as per your spice level
- 2 inches Indian Ginger
- 10 cloves Native indian garlic
- 1 Lemon juice
Spice and powders
- 1 tbsp Rice flour
- 1 tsp Corn flour
- ¾ tsp Salt as per taste
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- ¾ tsp Pepper powder you can adjust as per taste
To Fry
- Oil for frying
Instructions
Grind and make paste
- In a mixer jar, add green chilli, ginger, garlic and lemon juice and grind to paste. You can add few drops of water to grind it to fine paste.
Make Fry masala
- Transfer the ground paste to mixing bowl, then add salt, turmeric and pepper powder.
- Further add rice powder and corn flour. You can adjust corn flour quantity to make the masala paste sticky.
Appy masala on fish
- Apply this masala mix on each fish pieces and coat well.
Marinate the fish if time permits
- You can marinate the fish pieces with this masala coating from 30 minutes to 2 hrs if you have time.
- I have not marinated this time, I fried it straight after applying masalas.
Fry the fish pieces
- Add required oil in a preheated skillet to shallow fry the fish pieces.
- Once the oil is medium hot, add fish pieces one by one.
- Flip and fry on both sides of fish.
- Transfer to a plate and drain the excess oil on kitchen towel.
- Garnish with fried curry leaves and lemon to squeeze.
- Serve hot.
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Notes
- The ginger garlic paste for this masala is mandatory to ward off the too much fishy smell from sardines.
- You can adjust chilli and salt as per your spice requirement.
- Similarly, either rice or corn flour you can add to adjust water consistency to make sticky paste.