Meen Varuthathu Recipe - Kerala Style Fish Fry

Name: Meen Varuthathu Recipe - Kerala Style Fish Fry
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 65 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 5 pieces Fish Fillet (5 Fish fillet); 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste (1 teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste); 1 tbsp Red Chili Powder (1 tablespoon Red Chilli powder (adjust)); ½ tsp Ground Turmeric (1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)); 0 pieces Black Pepper (Black pepper powder freshly ground to taste); ½ piece Lemon (1/2 Lemon juiced); 0 pieces Table Salt (Salt to taste); 0 pieces Coconut Oil (Coconut Oil for shallow frying); 1 pinch Curry leaves (Curry leaves a few sprigs)

Meen Varuthathu Recipe - Kerala Style Fish Fry - Indian Snack Recipes (Indian)

65 minIndian

Servings5

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Dairy Free
Pescatarian
Halal
Egg Free

Steps

1To begin making the Meen Varuthathu Recipe - Kerala Style Fish Fry, wash and clean the fish well. Drain off the excess water. Set aside.
2In a mixing bowl, make a thick paste of all the ingredients under “for the Marinade” including ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, black pepper powder, lemon, salt adding a little water.
3Coat the spice mixture over the fish steaks well. Set aside for 30-40 minutes.
4Heat a frying pan with the oil, add the curry leaves and allow to splutter for a few seconds.
5Once the curry leaves are spluttered, immediately add the fish fillets, and shallow fry the fish till done and crisp on the outside. Flip the fillet to even brown on the other side also. Make sure to fry the fish over medium low heat so that they crisp up.
6Serve Meen Varuthathu Recipe as an appetiser with Steamed Rice, Kerala Chicken Curryand Snake Gourd Thoran and Paruppu Podi.