How to fry king fish?
Ingredients to cook this surmai fish fry:
This recipe needs the following ingredients:
Fish – Thin cut slices of king fish should be used in this recipe.
Spices – Spice powders like turmeric powder and red chili powder is used for marinating the king fish. These powders are also added to rava/semolina while coating the fish.
Tamarind paste – This is optional ingredient. But if used during marination, the taste of fish turns awesome.
Rava / Semolina – This is used for coating the fish before shallow frying.
Oil – Coconut oil or sunflower oil can be used for shallow frying.
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King Fish Fry
Equipment
- Tava / frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 kg King Fish
- For Marinating the fish:
- 1 tablespoon turmeric powder
- 2 tablespoon chilli powder
- 1 tablespoon tamarind paste optional
- 1 tablespoon salt
- For Coating the fish:
- 1 cup rawa / semolina
- 1 cup rice flour
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/4 teaspoon chilly powder
- 1 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Wash the king fish till its clean.
- In a small plate, mix salt, chilly and turmeric powder.
- To this add 2 tablespoon water and make a thick paste.
- You can even mix tamarind/garlic paste in this.
- Apply this to the fish and let it marinate for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- For frying:
- Mix the rice flour, rawa, pinch of salt, 1/4 teaspoon each of turmeric powder and chilly powder. Put this on a big plate.
- Coat the King fish in this rawa. Ensure that it is covered with rawa on both sides and the edges too.
- Heat the frying pan and spread 1 tablespoon oil. Add more if required.
- Place the fish on the pan and fry on low flame.
- After 10 minutes turn them to the other side.
- Fry them for 20 minutes.
- You know they are done when they turn brown.
Video
Notes
- Always fry fish on low flame and do not cover it while frying.
- Marinated fish will stay fresh in deep freezer for upto 2 weeks.
- Just thaw and fry.
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Reshmi Mahesh
Crispy and delicious fry….
Swathi
King fish fry looks delicious.
Suman Singh
Fish looks so crisp and delicious..nice and easy recipe..
Priya
Omg, fish fry tempts me a lot///
Harika's Kitchen
Fish fry looks crispy and yummy. i loved u method will try it soon.
Nandini
This is truly tempting…How lovely the fry looks…
Raksha
Thanks dear friends 🙂
Preety
looks perfect
Ila
awesome and crispy 🙂
Archana
Raksha I almost did not open this post as I love fish but I dont cook itand I drool over the post. But I am glad I did open this one for I loved it. Lovely clicks. Beautiful fry!
Raksha
Thanks friends
Pavithra
LOoks so so yumm 🙂
Torviewtoronto
delicious I haven't coated with rava before looks crispy
TipsNDeals
fish looks crispy and tasty…love it
Ambreen
Wow! Looks fantastic with the crispy coating!
Ananda Rajashekar
oh my that is top of world mouthwatering drooling!!
Malar Gandhi
Awesome fried fish, makes me very hungry right now..
vasanth suvarna
hi its great recipe