Indian Cooking Manual

Ingredients:

• Fish: 400 gm (cut in pieces)
• Garlic: 1 teaspoon (paste)
• Salt: 2 teaspoon (level)
• Corn flour: 2 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
• Mustard oil/oil: 3 tablespoon
• Mustard seed: 1 teaspoon
• Fenugreek seed: half teaspoon (optional)
• Lemon juice: 2 teaspoon
• Mustard seed: 3 teaspoon  (preferably yellow colour)
• Whole red chilly (dry): 10 no/as per taste
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Thymol seed/ajawine: 1 teaspoon
• Garlic: 3-5 clove
• Onion: one fourth of full onion

Ingredients for gravy:

• Mustard seed: 3 teaspoon  (preferably yellow colour)
• Whole red chilly: 10 no/as per taste
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Taimole seed/ajwain: 1 teaspoon
• Garlic: 3-5 clove
• Onion: one forth of full onion
• Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon

Procedure:

1. Clean the fish properly with running water. Add lemon juice. Leave it for 5-7 minutes. Again wash the fish drain out all the water.
2. Mix garlic paste, salt  and turmeric powder. Rub these three items on the fish. Keep aside.
3. Heat oil in fry pan on high flame, when smoke starts coming.
4. Put mustard seed and allow the seed to sputter for few seconds. Reduce heat at low flame.
5. Add fish pieces and increase the flame to high. Fry on both sides till light golden color appears (about 2-3 minutes each side) and remove.
6. Fry remaining pieces in the same way and keep it aside.
7. Dry grind mustard, ajwain, salt and red chilly( 8 no) all together, then add garlic and onion in it. Pour 2 table spoon of water and again grind the masala. Make fine paste all together and keep aside.
8. Heat oil in a pan. Put mustard seed and whole red cilly (dry). Sputter the things few seconds simmer the flame and then add wet masala.
9. Fry the masala on low flame until it becomes golden brown (about 4-5 minutes).
10. Slowly add 200 ml water (as per gravy thickness), boil it for 1 minute.
11. Add fry fish in it. When it boils, put off the flame.
12. Serve after 5-10 minutes.
13. Sprinkle the chopped coriander leaf on it.

Ingredients:

• Fish (rohu): 400gm (CUT IN PIECES)
• Garlic: 1 teaspoon (paste)
• Salt: 2 teaspoon (level)
• Corn flour: 2 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
• Mustard oil/oil: 3 tablespoon
• Mustard seed: 1 teaspoon
• Fenugreek seed: half teaspoon (optional)
• Lemon juice: 2 teaspoon

Procedure:

1. Clean the fish properly with running water. Add lemon juice. Leave it for 5-7 minutes. Again wash the fish drain out all the water.
2. Garlic paste + salt + turmeric powder. Rub these three items on the fish. Keep aside.
3. Heat oil in fry pan on high flame, when smoke starts coming, put mustard seed. Allow the seed to Sputter for few seconds’ .Reduce heat at low flame. Add fish pieces and increase the flame to high.  Fry on both sides till dark   golden brown color appears (about 2-4 minutes each side).   Remove. Fry remaining pieces in the same way.
4. Garnish with chat masala, onion ring, mint-leaf and lemon.