Surmai Fish Curry With Surmai Fry

Surmai  Fish Curry With Surmai Fry

Ingredients
Surmai Fish - 1 medium - 7 -8 pieces
Green chillies - 3
Garlic - 7-8 (small)cloves
Ginger  1 inch
Coriander leaves - few sprigs
Tamarind paste - 1/2 teaspoon
Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
Lemon - 1/4
Red chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
Coconut - 1/4 cup (shredded)
Oil and salt

Method
1. Make a paste of 5-6 garlic cloves, green chillies and some coriander leaves.
2. Wash, clean and cut the fish into pieces almost 2 cms thick.
3.  Marinate the pieces with the green spice paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt,
     tamarind paste and juice of 1/4 slice of a lemon and let the fish relax at least for an hour.
 4. Meanwhile, make a smooth paste of shredded coconut with water.
5. Heat oil in a pan and add rest of the garlic cloves (2-3). When the garlic is light brown, add the
    marinated fish. Try not to break the pieces while stirring.
6. Add the coconut paste and some water. Adjust the salt and spices if you want. Add coconut paste
 7. Boil for 5 minutes.
This curry taste yummy with rice or chapati.


Surmai Fry

Ingredients
Surmai fish - 5 - 6 pieces
Ginger  - garlic paste - 1 tbsp.
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Rice flour- 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Fish  masala powder - 1 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt as per taste

Method
1. Make incisions on a clean fish and apply salt and lemon juice on both sides and keep aside.
2. Meanwhile, in a bowl, mix ginger garlic paste, fish masala powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder,  and rice flour. Adjust the amount of rice flour  to get a nice thick paste.
3. Apply this marinade to the fish on both sides and keep it for a couple of hours in the fridge.
4. Preheat ur pan.
5. Grease the pan with oil. Drizzle some oil on the fish  and cook it for 8-10 minutes.
Sprinkle some more lemon juice and relish.