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Dry fish fry

Fish fry is a super easy dish and required basic elementary cooking techniques. Fish fry can be as simple as dipping the fish in the batter and frying it right away. This crispy, spicy and super delicious dish is a blast of different flavors like Indian spices and the awesome taste of the fish. This super crispy fish goes well with the rice (maybe simply steamed or fried rice or jeera rice) and a mild gravy (rasam).  Fried fish could also be served with a plain salad like cabbage, onions, spring onions, and a few drops of lemon could take the taste to the next level. It can even be served along with a couple of chutneys like mint-coriander chutney, spicy red tomato chutney, or simply tomato ketchup would suffice for that matter. 

This dish is so versatile that it can be served in various forms and on different occasions. Fried fish can be served as snacks for the kids too or it can be served as a special dish to the guests as well along with some side dips. This is one of the most loved recipes among the non-vegetarian population in India.

Let's proceed to the preparation of this recipe: 


Dry fish fry


  • Ingredients checklist 

  1. 1/2 Kg fish of your preference (I preferred a large size Catla fish, large size because it has very few bones, otherwise, in a small size fish you have to deal with a lot many small bones and trust me there is nothing more irritating than this)
  2. Semolina (Rawa)
  3. fine ground rice powder
  4. Cornflour 
  5. red chili powder
  6. turmeric powder
  7. Tandoori masala powder
  8. Garam masala powder
  9. Ginger garlic paste
  10. Salt
  11. Any cooking oil

  • Procedure

  1. Clean the raw fish thoroughly with clean water twice.
  2. Now remove the excess water from the fish and marinate it with some turmeric powder and a little salt to taste. Put aside the fish for some time.
  3. Now, let's make the mixture for the crunchy outer layer. 
  4. Take a wide plate and add cleaned semolina (1/2 cup), ground rice powder (1/4th cup), cornflour (1/2 Tbsp), red chili powder (1/2 Tbsp or more), tandoori masala powder (1/2 Tbsp), turmeric powder (1/8 tsp or just a pinch of it), Garam masala powder (1/2 tsp) and Salt to taste.
  5. Mix all the ingredients well uniformly.
  6. Now, bring back the fish and sprinkle a little number of dry spices on it like red chili powder, tandoori masala, and garam masala powder to just form a coat of spices. DO NOT ADD TOO MUCH OF SPICES IN THIS STEP.
  7. Heat a spoonful of cooking oil in a frying pan on medium flame.
  8. Now, coat the fish with the mixture we made in step 4. Do this step for every piece of fish individually. Once you are done with this step, you will have a fish piece completely coated in the dry mixture with very little moisture. 
  9. Is the oil hot enough? Alright, Place the fish pieces in the pan and make sure your pan doesn't look congested. There must be enough space between the pieces, this will ensure that the fish don't attract unwanted moisture and this will allow you to turn the pieces upside down.
  10. Close the lid of the frypan and let it fry for 5-7 minutes. Then turn them upside down and let them fry for another 5 minutes. If it looks uncooked then keep turning them upside down for 2-2 minutes but keep an eye on them. 
  11. Once they turn into a good golden brown color, you can take them off the pan and the fish is ready to serve.
  12. Serve it hot with the green mint chutney.

Plated and decorated dry fish fry

Let me know if you try this recipe. And do comment and tell me how it felt after the first bite.

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