Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Topse Fry / Fried Mango Fish


Ingredients:

Topse mach (mango fish) : de-scaled and cleaned thoroughly, marinated with salt and a pinch of turmeric powder and lemon juice.
Green chillies, garlic and ginger (ground together into a coarse paste) required to marinate the fish.
For 4 pieces of fish 4tsp paste is required to marinate .
Gram flour (Besan) and rice flour : well beaten in a pan with cold water to make a thin paste adding salt, red chilly powder, turmeric powder, kalojeera and 1tsp kusksus (posto or poppy seeds).
Mustard oil for frying.

Procedure :

The fish is marinated with the chilly-garlic-ginger paste for at least 1 hour.
Heat oil in a pan and coat each fish in the batter (previously made from besan) and deep fry till golden brown.

2 comments:

  1. can this fish be used in any way other than frying it? Like for a ceviche? Is it relatively safe to eat "raw"?

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  2. No,I don't think so...it can not be eaten raw...It has an unusual fishy smell which u may not like... but if marinated and fried ...it becomes awesome!!!

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