Red Mullets Green Masala Fry

Red Mullets Green Masala Fry 

For the Green Masala

Ingredients 

1/2  cup Coriander leaves chopped 

2 Green chillies

1 small Ginger piece

6 Garlic cloves 

1 tbsp Lime juice Or Vinegar Or 1/2 piece of Lime marinated in salt.

1/2 tsp Cumin seeds 

1/4 tsp Sugar 

Salt to taste

 Method 

Grind all the ingredients together. 

P.S. I did not have fresh lime juice so I substituted lime juice with lime marinated in salt.

To Marinate 

Ingredients 

2 Red Mullets cut into halves 

Green Masala

Salt to taste

 

Method 

Apply salt on the fish and keep it aside for 10 minutes. Then rub the green masala on the fish and marinate the fish for 30 minutes.

To Fry

Ingredients 

Marinated Fish 

1 Onion sliced 

1/2 cup Rice Flour 

1/4 tsp Chilli powder 

Salt to taste 

Oil to Shallow fry

Method 

Take rice flour in a plate and add salt and chilli powder. Mix it. Coat the fish in the rice flour. Heat oil in a pan. Shallow fry the fish till golden brown on both the sides. Serve hot with sliced onions.

Red Mullets cooked in Garlicky Orange Saffron Sauce served with Butter Spinach Rice.....

Red Mullets cooked in Garlicky Orange Saffron Sauce served with Butter Spinach Rice.....

Butter Spinach Rice
Ingredients
4 cups of cooked Rice
1 cup Spinach chopped
1 tsp Garlic chopped
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Butter

Method
Take a pan, add the butter. Let it melt on low flame. Add garlic, saute it for a minute. Add the spinach. Sauté and cook for 2 minutes. Add the rice and salt. Stir fry it for 2 minutes. Keep it aside.

Red Mullet cooked in Garlicky Orange Saffron Sauce    

For Marinating the Fish and Frying the Fish
Ingredients
2 medium big size Red Mullet cut into halves
Salt to taste
1 tbsp Lime juice
1 tbsp  Butter
1 tbsp Oil

Method 

Marinate the fish with lime juice and salt. Keep it aside for 15 minutes. Take a pan, add butter and oil. Heat it. Fry the fish on both the sides until brown. Keep it aside.

Red Mullets cooked in Garlicky Orange Saffron Sauce
Ingredients
Fried Red Mullets
Juice of 2 Oranges
1 tbsp Garlic minced
1 Onion minced
1 tsp Orange Peel chopped
2 Pinches of Saffron
Salt to taste
1/4 tbsp of Sugar
1 tsp Pickled Red Chill sliced or Chilli flakes
1 tbsp Butter

Method
Use the same pan in which the fish was fried. Add the butter and melt it on low flame. Add the garlic and sauté it for few seconds. Add the onion and sauté it for 1 minute. Add the orange juice, let it simmer, add the orange peel chopped, saffron, sugar, pickled red chilli slices or chilli flakes and salt. Let it simmer and cook for 2 minutes. Add the fish and let the fish cook in the sauce for 2 minutes on each side.

To Assemble
Take a plate, arrange the rice. Add the fish in the centre of the plate. Pour in the remaining sauce on the fish and serve it hot.