Stuffed Pomfret

5 from 1 vote

Stuffed pomfret is a delicious pomfret fry recipe stuffed with paste made of coriander leaves, coconut, onion and spices, coated with rava or flour and shallow fried. This Goan stuffed fish fry recipe with green chutney tastes delicious and can be served as an appetizer just like Goan recheado fish fry in which fish is stuffed with red masala.

Course Appetizer, Appetizers

Cuisine Goan, Indian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Servings Pomfret

Author Raksha Kamat

Ingredients

2 white pomfrets – medium sized

For Marination:

1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon red chili powder
½ teaspoon salt

For Stuffing:

3 green chilis
4 tablespoon grated coconut
6 garlic pods
1/2 inch ginger
1 inch piece of tamarind
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
4-5 black pepper
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 cup chopped coriander leaves
1/2 medium sized finely chopped onion

For coating:

1 cup rava
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder

For frying:

4 tablespoon oil
Salt to taste

Instructions

Clean the fish by cutting only its head, fins and tail. Make a slit on one.
Marinate the fish by applying 1 teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon turmeric powder and salt.
Grind or blend all the ingredients meant for stuffing except the chopped onion. You can add 1/4 cup water while grinding. Don’t make the paste too watery, keep it a bit thick.
Add raw chopped onion to the paste and ¼ tsp salt and mix well.
From the slit part, stuff the fish with the prepared green masala with onion. Apply some masala paste on all sides of the fish.
On a plate, mix rava(semolina), rice flour and little salt.
Coat the stuffed pomfret with prepared rava on all the sides.
Heat the frying pan and spread oil. After oil gets heated, place the rava coated stuffed pomfret on the frying pan. After 10 minutes using 2 spatulas, gently turn it to the other side.
Put little oil in the top of the turned pomfret. Fry it further for 15 minutes. Switch off the gas.

Notes

Do not let the rava get burnt. So always fry on low flame and keep on flipping to both sides.
Serve it hot.

Refer to this video to know how to cut and clean pomfret.