Nethili Fish Fry
Anchovies marinated with spices and deep fried in oil to perfection. Crispy, crunchy and flavorful nethili meen fry recipe. It serves as a perfect appetizer and good for side dish too.
Equipment
- Frying pan
- Ladle
Ingredients
- 500 grams anchovy/ nethili fish
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 2 tbsp Kashmiri red chilly powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp pepper powder
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- 2 tbsp cornstarch/cornflour
- ⅓ lemon juice
- as pper taste salt
- ½-1 cup oil
For garnishing
- 1 Sprig curry leaves
- Few nos Green chillies
- Few nos onion rings
- Few slices lemon
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add in the ginger garlic paste, coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder, rice flour, corn flour, lemon juice and salt. Mix well and make a thick paste. Please do not add water.
- Add in the cleaned anchovies. Mix well together the masala paste and the fish. Marinated for atleast 30 minutes
- Heat oil in a frying pan. When the oil is heated, reduce the flame to low and frist fry some curry leaves until crisp. Remove and keep aside.
- Now carefully drop the fish one by one onto the hot oil. Do not over crowd it.
- Fry the fish on medium flame for about 3-4 minutes. Then flip over and fry for 2-3 minutes or until golden and crisp. It will take totally approximately 6-7 minutes. Flip over in between for evening cooking.
- Remove them and continue the same process with the remaining fish.
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Notes
1. This recipe can be used in other small fish varieties also.
2. You can also use egg white of one egg.
3. Adjust the chilly powder according to your heat preference.
4. You can skip the cornstarch and increase the rice flour a bit if it is not available.
5. If you don’t have much time for marination, you can keep marinated for few minutes and fry it. But the longer marination the better in taste.