Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, meen varuthathu (kerala style fish fry). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Meen Varuthathu (Kerala Style Fish Fry) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Meen Varuthathu (Kerala Style Fish Fry) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have meen varuthathu (kerala style fish fry) using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Meen Varuthathu (Kerala Style Fish Fry):
- Make ready 12 Pomfret Fillets (Avoli/Paaplet)
- Take 1 sprig Curry Leaves
- Take 2 tbsp Rice Flour
- Take As Required Coconut / Vegetable Oil for shallow frying
- Get For The Marinade :
- Get 2 tsp Coconut Oil / Vegetable Oil
- Make ready 4 Dry Red Chillies Deseeded
- Make ready 10 large Garlic Cloves
- Make ready 1/2 ″ Ginger
- Get 1 1/2 tsp Black Peppercorns
- Get 2 tsp Fennel Seeds
- Get 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Make ready 2 tsp Tamarind
- Make ready to taste Salt
Steps to make Meen Varuthathu (Kerala Style Fish Fry):
- To make Meen Varuthathu (Avoli/Pomfret Fish Fry), clean and rinse the pomfret well. Drain away all excess water.
- Discard the unwanted parts and cut it into approximately 1 cm thick fillets.
- For the marinade, first heat a small pan and add oil to it. Add to it the dry red chillies and roast slightly.
- Grind it together with the garlic cloves, ginger, black peppercorns, fennel seeds, turmeric powder, tamarind and salt to taste using very little water to get a thick paste.
- Add the oil, remaining after roasting the red chillies, as well as the rice flour to the marinade.
- Alternatively, instead of mixing in the rice flour, it can be used for dusting the fish before frying which prevents the spice paste from separating during frying.
- Rub this marinade on both sides of the pomfret fillets. Keep aside to marinate for about half an hour.
- To make the fish fry, heat a griddle and add oil to it. When the oil heats up, add the curry leaves and stir.
- Slowly release each of the marinated pomfret fillets either as they are or after dusting with rice flour, into the hot oil.
- Reduce the flame to medium and fry well, till both sides of the pomfret are well done and crisp.
- Serve this delicious Meen Varuthathu with some Meen Moilee and steamed rice and some salad by the side!
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