By Malini Bisen
Ingredients
6-8 thickish slices of Surmai fish rubbed with a mixture of some turmeric and salt
3 lemons, juice extracted
1 1/2 teaspoon chilly powder
oil as required, salt to taste
25 gm ginger
8 cloves
20 gm black cardamoms
20gm cinnamon
15 gm cumin seeds
25 gm ani seeds
8 peppercorns
Method:
- Wash the Surmai slices very nicely with water and place them on a layer of papers so that the water gets absorbed in the paper.
- Pound finely ginger, cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon, cumin and aniseed powders and peppercorns.
- Mix these in the lime juice along with chilly powder and salt to taste.
- Cover the fish slices with this mixture and let them marinate thus soaked in the mixture for half an hour.
- Place a frying pan on fire and fry these slices two or three at a time by adding oil as required.
- When they are fried brown and crisp serve them directly from the pan with any chutney.
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