Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sardine/mathi fry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sardine (locally known as Mathi or Chaala in Kerala), is one the cheapest and tastiest fish available in South India. The small bones of Sardine is good resource of calcium. Sardines/ Chala/ Mathi is a fish familiar to every Keralite as it is cheap and almost always obtainable.
Sardine/mathi fry is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Sardine/mathi fry is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook sardine/mathi fry using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sardine/mathi fry:
- Make ready 5 sardine -
- Make ready 2 tsps pepper powder -
- Prepare 1 tbsp chilly powder -
- Take as required salt -
- Make ready to fry oil
- Get curry leaves
This Sardine Fry gets special taste from the button onions. This mathi fry is a definitely a very good recipe and can make the lunch a special one. Enjoy the Chala Fry with Rice Porridge or with rice and fish curry. Heat oil for shallow frying in a tava or frying pan.
Instructions to make Sardine/mathi fry:
- First clean the sardine well cutting its head and tail. Remove the scales. Pull out the thread and a sac like stuff from inside using your fingures. Rinse well in water. Wash it nicely using salt 2 - 3 times.
- After cleaning the fish make 3-4 slits on both side of the fish. Then marinate it using chilly powder, pepper powder and salt. coat the fish properly on each side.
- Keep the fish marinated for 1-2 hours. Then put some oil in a pan, to shallow fry the fish. When the oil is hot, add few springs of curry leaves on it. Then put the fish above this curry leaves and cook. Flip the fish pieces carefully after 6-8 minutes until it is cooked properly on both sides.
Place marinated mathi meen over hot oil and also place curry leaves. Fry on low medium flame till it turns golden brown and crispy. Serve fried mathi meen with any main coarse. Clean fish and squeeze some lemon juice,rub on the fish and then give a final rinse. Make a few gashes on the fish.
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