Velli Fish Fry | Goan Style Anchovies or White Sardines Fry
Crispy fried anchovies or rava fried vellyo is a delicious fish preparation from the small Indian state – Goa. Velli fishis also known as white sardines. Some people call it silver fish or silver belly fish. This is also known as vellyo or vellori. Anchovies are marinated with Indian spices like red chili powder and turmeric powder, coated with flour and shallow fried in oil.
Servings 4 People
Ingredients
- 10-20 Anchovies / Velli in Konkani
For Marination:
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
For Coating:
- 2 tablespoon rava or semolina
- 1 tablespoon rice flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Clean the fish carefully, by cutting off the head. De-scale them and clean the internals. Do not make small pieces, just cut the head and de-scale.
- Apply the ingredients meant for marination – red chili powder, turmeric powder and salt and keep aside for 20 minutes.
- Take a plate and mix the ingredients meant for coating- rice flour, rava or semolina, red chili powder, turmeric powder, and salt.
- Heat a frying pan and add oil. Once the oil gets slightly heated, coat each marinated fish in rice flour and semolina(rava) mixture and place it in the frying pan.
- Drizzle some oil on top of the fish.
- Shallow fry on both sides. This should normally take around 10-15 minutes.