Fish Fry is as important to a Keralite as water is to fish. I apologize if I have said this before in my posts but this is so true! Rice, Daal with a side of spicy pan fried fish was a very common fare growing up and thankfully due to my ‘fish’loving’ husband, it is quite common in our kitchen too! But Mr is very particular about how he likes his fish fry and he likes to keep it simple – just some salt,turmeric and red chili powder for the marinade and then the pan frying also has to be perfect – on low heat to yield perfectly cooked on the inside and perfectly crispy on the outside! And as you can guess, I readily outsourced this process a.k.a ritual to him very early on after our marriage. Hey why mess with the expert 🙂
I just realized that I never posted this simple recipe here before. I did recently do a video of it as one of our friends was asking us about it. Here is the link to that – Simple Fish Fry:
Anyways sorry I digressed..today’s post is about me trying something new with fish fry. Yes it was a risk I took ! What if hubby didn’t like it? But since these days I am eating lots of fish being on a paleo diet, I wanted to try something new. I recently was browsing Chettinad style chicken recipes on youtube when I also came across chettinad style fish fry. I was instantly motivated to try this since the flavors of fennel and ginger -garlic in the marinade sounded wonderful!
I tried this recipe with Salmon although you can use any other fish too. In fact it turned out very good and I am going to try it with cod fish next! I also think I will try baking the fish next time to get the full flavor of this masala. I absolutely love this marinade masala and I have plans to use them in many other dishes in the future – loads of possibilities:)
Jumped over from Shiva’s post — TheShivaSponder – and I am SO sorry I did. 🙂 I’m afraid I have already grown a size just looking at all beautiful pictures on your home page.
Seriously, everything looks wonderful. I am trying to include more fish in my gluten-free diet, so this post caught my eye. Can’t wait to try it (but I will have to – it’s late, I’ve already had dinner, and the grocery store is no longer open – lol)
Thanks for sharing.
xx,
mgh
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thank you Madelyn for your comments. Just ignore my holiday posts since I made some goodies for my kids. Otherwise you should find a lot of gluten free and sugar free posts too since I am on a diary free, sugar free and gluten free diet. thx for stopping by so I could meet you! 🙂
I noticed the GF category, so marked your blog for return visits for new ideas.
xx,
mgh
looks amazing!
thanks! yes it was lovely! thanks for stopping by!
LOVE fish and your recipe looks so good!!
thanks Archana
Yummy! Love chettinad food! Great recipe
thanks Lina. I have a desire now to dive more into chettinad cuisine!
Very spicy way to serve fish. It’s sounds good.
yeah it is very flavorful. You can adjust heat as necessary!
Very good.
Love the crust you’ve created with the spices. Both dishes look delicious! 🙂
yes the masala paste actually forms a nice crust! thanks!
Indu, this looks so good. I love fried fish and daal rice too.The fennel seeds in this masala is new to me. Will try it next time.
He he Sandhya we both love our seafood right? Yes the fennel is unique here. For me the whole masala was unique since for frying fish we generally keep it simple. But this was wonderful for a change!
yes crazy about the seafood. I usually keep the masala simple too but this sure has me intrigued.