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Monday, February 20, 2012

Fish Masala Roast / Kerala Style Fish Roast


It's been a while since i blogged and getting back to it seemed hard. Happy to receive comments from you readers in the meanwhile. Some of you requested me to start blogging again. Here i am and i hope to get more inspired to keep on blogging. Thank you all for visiting and for the wonderful comments.
Coming to the post, this fish roast is a dry preparation, that you can cook fish wrapped in banana leaves /aluminum foil or else in a pan.

Ingredients

3 or 4 fleshy -  Fish (pomfret or king fish)
2 -  Large sliced onions
2 inches - Thinly julienne, ginger
4 large cloves -  Garlic, sliced very thin
2 sprigs - Curry leaves
1 large - Tomato, sliced
3 tsp - Coriander powder
1 tsp  - Kashmiri chili powder
1/2  tsp - Tikka lal mirch (very hot)
2  - Green chillies,  slit
1 tsp - Turmeric powder
1/4 tsp -  Methi powder
Fresh coriander leaves chopped
Coconut oil

Method

1 ) Wash, clean the fish and cut them as required.

2 ) In a heavy bottom pan – add coconut oil, then curry leaves, sliced onion and fry till onion is lightly browned. Then add ginger, garlic and green chilies and fry lightly.

3 ) Mix coriander, turmeric and red chili powder in another container. Sprinkle little water and blend the flavors. Add this masala to the pan and stir on low heat. Add methi powder, saute' for 2 to 3 minutes.

4 )  Add fish slices, coat it with masala and cover and cook till fish is cooked. You can add little water if necessary.

5 ) Add sliced tomato and stir lightly. Coat the fish, cover & cook for 2 min. The tomatoes must not mash and still have some raw taste.

6 ) Sprinkle coriander leaves and decorate with tomato slices and curry leaves. Serve hot with roti or rice.


Alternately, you may sauté all the above masala and coat it on the fish and roast it by making a packet of aluminium foil or with banana leaves. Stuff the aluminium foil envelope with the fish + masala and cover from all sides roast on a tava – covered. You may drizzle some oil on to the fish before closing the packet.

- You can adopt the same recipe to cook paneer instead of the fish. Use 300 gms paneer sliced in cubes.

8 comments:

Suganya said...

Lovely looking fish. Looks so good. Nice recipe. Very different recipe...

Pravs said...

Sukanya : Thanks :)

Subi said...

I thought you have decided to no longer help the cooking ignoramus:-) Welcome back. Hope this inspiration lasts for ever. The dish you made looks yummy.

Pravs said...

Subi : Thanks subi :) you are not an ignoramus :) of course, the comments and feedback's are the inspirations.

Rosh said...

Looks delicious!

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Rosh said...

Hi Pravs! Thanks for dropping by. Unfortunately your comment got deleted (touch fones can be quite a pain at times!!)

But appreciate the visit :) Hope to see more wonderful recipes!


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Suja Manoj said...

Great fish roast,looks so delicious,spicy and mouthwatering..

Unknown said...

unique recipe ... nice post .. surely gonna try this one