Ingredients

• 6-8 thick slices - Surmai fish rubbed with a mixture of some turmeric and salt
• 3 lemons, juice extracted
• 1.5 tsp chilli powder
• Oil as required
• Salt to taste
• 25 gm ginger
• 8 cloves
• 20 gm black cardamom
• 20gm cinnamon
• 15 gm cumin seeds
• 25 gm ani seeds
• 8 peppercorns

How to Make Crisp-Fried Surmai Fish

• Wash the surmai slices in water and place them on a layer of paper so that the water gets absorbed.
• Pound finely ginger, cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon, cumin and aniseed and peppercorns.
• Mix these powders in the lime juice along with chilli 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.