Fish Pulav

Ingredients :
4 cups Basmati rice
1 tbsp garlic-ginger paste
1 1/2 cup fish pieces
3 red dry chillies, ground
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 lemon
2 medium onions
15 peppercorns
6 cloves
2 1-inch sticks cinnamon
8 white cardamoms, crushed
1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds powder
2 bay leaves
salt to taste
ghee and oil as required

Method :
Wash the rice clean and put in a colander to drain out the water.
Remove the black threads running at the back of the fishs and wash these fish pieces with water.
Smear with a little salt and lemon juice.
Keep aside for 1/2 an hour.
Cut the onions into thin slices.
Heat 3 tablespoons of refined oil in a heavy-bottomed dekchi and season it with peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon sticks, crushed cardamoms and bay leaf.
Add the ground chillies and the pastes of ginger and garlic.
Stir and put in the fish. Fry till oil starts oozing out.
Put in the rice, turmeric, cumin seeds powder and enough salt.
Fry for some time so that the rice comes to a pale yellow colour.
Pour 3 cups of hot water and squeeze in the juice of the lemon. Make the fire medium.
Let cook till the fish are tender and rice is cooked.
Heat 1 1/2 tablespoons of good ghee in another dekchi.
Put in the onion slices.
Fry till they are browned and become crisp.
Take out and keep aside.
Pour the ghee remaining in the dekchi over the ready fish pulav and mix well.
Transfer the pulav in a nice serving dish.
Garnish with the fried onion slices.
Serve hot. This easy-to-make pulav is simply delicious.

Fish Pitika (Mashed Boneless Fish)

Ingredients :

500 gms rohu fish
2 tbsp mustard oil
2 tsp mustard paste
2 tsp lemon juice
2 green chillies (chopped)
6-8 pods of garlic

Method :

Peel and crush the garlic.
Steam the fish in water for about 10 minutes or until cooked.
Drain out the water. Remove the skin and discard all the bones till you have just the fish without the bones.
Mash the cooked fish and add salt and mix well. Keep aside.
Heat the oil in a pan and add the garlic and the mustard paste.
Lower the flame and fry for one minute.
Add this to the mashed fish.
Also mix in the chopped green chillies and the lemon juice.
Mix well and serve.

Fish Patties

Ingredients :
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Oil for frying

Mix together for the patties :
250 gms codfish, cooked and minced
2 potatoes, boiled and smashed
1 small onion, chopped finely.
1/2" inch ginger, grounded into paste
3 garlic flakes, grounded into paste
5 green chillies, chopped finely
1/2 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp coriander leaves
Salt as per taste

Method :
Add to the patties mixture ½ of beaten egg. Mix it well.
Make small rolls of the mixture and flatten it. Heat oil for frying.
Dip the patties in the remaining beaten egg. Roll it in the bread crumbs.
Deep fry till golden brown. Remove and drain it. Serve hot with wafers.

Fish Moulee

Ingredients :

500 gm fish fillet
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 cups coconut milk
1 tbsp flour
1 tsp red chilli powder
2 green chillies (slit into halves)
½ tsp sugar
3 tbsp oil
1 medium-sized onion (chopped)
salt to taste

Method :
Rub the fish with salt and turmeric powder and keep aside for 5 minutes. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the fish pieces a few at a time till they turn just light golden brown. Drain out the oil and keep aside. In the same oil, fry the chopped onion and ginger till they are translucent. Add the green chillies and fry for another minute. Lower the heat and add 1 cup of water. Mix in the chilli powder and the sugar and salt to taste. Bring to the boil and allow to simmer for 3 minutes.
Mix in the coconut milk and allow the gravy to simmer for another 3-4 minutes. When the gravy thickens a bit, add the fish pieces and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Serve with plain rice.

Fish Kababs

Ingredients :

2" Dalchini
6-8 cloves, 2 tej pataa, 2 moti illaichi
1 tsp sonth powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
1 tsp red chilli powder,
1 tsp salt
2 tsp saunf
2 tsp ginger paste
1 egg
4 tbsp rice flour

Method :

Put fish, dalchini, tej patte, moti illaichi and laung in a pan. Add some water and boil till fish is soft
Cool remove skin and bones and mash well
Add all the other ingredients. Mix well.
Shape into kababs and deep fry to a golden brown colour.

Fish Fry

Ingredients
1 kg white fish fillets
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Oil for frying

To be ground into paste
2 sprigs of spring onion
1" ginger
3 garlic flakes
4 green chillies
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 cup coriander leaves
1/2 cup gram flour (besan)
Salt as per taste

Method:
Clean and Wash fish fillets.
Cut into big pieces of the fillets.
Heat the oil for frying. Put the fish pieces in the batter.
Keep for 5 to 10 minutes. Remove the pieces and roll in bread crumbs.
Deep fry till it turns golden brown. Serve hot.

PAV BHAJI

PAV BHAJI

Ingredients
8 pavs (squarish soft buns about 4" x 5" size)
butter to shallow fry.

For Bhaji
1 capsicum (Shimla Mirch) chopped fine
2 onions chopped fine
2 tomatoes chopped fine
2 1/2 cups chopped mixed vegetables (beans, carrots, cauliflower, potota, beans, bottle gourds, etc.) 1/2 cup shelled peas
2 tbsp. butter
2 tsp. pavbhaji masala
1 1/2 tsp. chilli powder
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
1/2 tsp. sugar
salt to taste
1 cup water (in which vegetables were boiled)
1/2 tsp. each ginger grated, garlic crushed
juice of 1/2 lemon.

To Garnish
1 tbsp. coriander chopped
1 onion chopped
small pieces of lemon

Method
Pressure cook mixed vegetables and peas till well done.
Mash them coarsely after draining.
Heat butter in a pan.
Add ginger-garlice, capsicum, onion, tomatoes.
Fry for 2-3 minutes till very soft.
Add pavbhaji masala , chilli powder, turmeric, salt, sugar and fry further 2-3 minutes.
Bring to boil.
Simmer till gravy is thick, stirring and mashing pieces with masala, in between.
Add lemon juice, stir.
Garnish with chopped coriander and a block of butter.

For Pavs
Slit pavs horizontally leaving one edge attached. (To open like a book).
Apply butter (as desired) and roast open on a griddle till hot and soft with the surface crisp on both sides.
Serve hot with bhaji, a piece of lemon and chopped onion.

Making time : 30 mins. (excl. pressure cooking time)
Serve : 4 (2 pavs each)

Fish Fingers

Ingredients :
10 pieces sole fish cut in finger shape
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp white pepper powder
2 tbsp bread crumbs
1 egg
salt to taste
oil to deep fry

Method :
Marinate fish fingers with salt, pepper powder and lemon juice.
Keep in fridge for 15 minutes.
Dip in beaten egg and roll in palms to coat the crumbs nicely.
Heat oil and deep fry the fingers until fish fingers are light golden andcooked.
Serve with tartare sauce or tomato sauce.

Fish Cutlet

Ingredients :
½ kg fish
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 bread slice
1 tbsp cornflour
1 egg
½ tsp garam masala powder
1 cup bread crumbs
1-2 green chillies
1 bunch coriander leaves
salt to taste
oil for frying
½ tsp turmeric powder

Method :
Rub fish with salt & turmeric powder. Wash after 5 min.
Steam fish over a pan of hot water and remove all the bones.
Mash it with hands. Add ginger- garlic paste, salt, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, cornflour, coriander leaves, green chillies, bread slice (soaked in water & squeezed).
Mix all these ingredients & make cutlets of round or any shape you like.
Beat egg lightly. Dip cutlet in egg and roll them in bread crumbs.
Heat oil. Oil should not be very hot.
Fry till brown and serve with potato fingers & chutney.

Fish Amritsari

Ingredients:
1 kg singhara fish
3 tbsp malt vinegar
1 tsp ajwain
1 tsp haldi powder
2 tbsp chilli powder
2 tbsp zeera powder
½ cup eggs, whisked
2 tbsp besan
2 tbsp maida
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Chaat masala to sprinkle on top

To be ground into paste
2 tbsp ginger
2 tbsp garlic
½ tbsp red chillies

Method:
Wash the fish pieces and pat dry. Dissolve a little salt in vinegarand marinate fish for 20minutes.
Remove fish from vinegar, press gently between two paper napkins to remove moisture.
In a bowl, mix eggs, ginger, garlic and chilli pastes along with ajwain, haldi, chilli powder, zeera powder, besan, maida, salt and coriander.
Evenly coat fish pieces with this mixture and leave to marinate for 30minutes.
Heat oil in Kadhai, fry fish pieces until crisp and golden brown.
Drain excess oil, sprinkle chaat masala and serve hot, garnished with lemon wedges.

Dum Machhli

Ingredients :
8pcs pomfret steaks
5gm salt
2gm turmeric
3 tbsp ghee
A pinch of hing
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp ginger finely chopped
2 tbsp onion paste
4 tbsp curd beaten
1 tbsp poppy seed roasted & ground
1 cup water
½ tsp saunf powder
2 tsp garam masala
1 tbsp chopped coriander
1 tsp chopped green chillies

Method :
Pat dry the fish steaks and rub salt & turmeric powder.
Heat 2 tbsp ghee and shallow fry the fish till lightly coloured.
Heat one tbsp ghee and add cumin, chopped ginger and hing.
When they crackle add onion paste, poppy seed paste & beaten curd
Cook for 2-3 mins on low heat.
Add chopped green chilles, turmeric(a pinch) chopped coriander, saunf powder, garam masala and fish steaks. Cook with lid on. Bake in oven with foil.

Crisp-Fried Surmai Fish

Ingredients :
6-8 thickish slices of Surmai fish
3 lemons, juice extracted
1 1/2 tsp chilly powder
oil as required salt to taste
25 gm ginger
8 cloves
20 gm black cardamoms
20gm cinnamon
15 gm cumin seeds
25 gm ani seeds
8 peppercorns

Method :
Wash the Surmai slices very nicely with water and place them on a layer of papers so that the water gets absorbed in the paper.
Pound finely ginger, cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon, cumin and aniseed powders and peppercorns.
Mix these in the lime juice along with chilly powder and salt to taste.
Cover the fish slices with this mixture and let them marinate thus soaked in the mixture for half an hour.
Place a frying pan on fire and fry these slices two or three at a time by adding oil as required.
When they are fried brown and crisp serve them directly from the pan with any chutney.

Creamy Tiger Prawns

Ingredients :
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
2 lb raw tiger prawns, peeled
1 quantity Balti sauce
2 oz creamed coconut
2 oz ground almonds
1 lb courgettes sliced
¼ pt double cream
4 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
seasoning
2 oz toasted almond flakes to garnish

Method :
Heat the oil over high heat in a large Balti pan or wok.
Fry the onion for 2 minutes over high heat. Stir in the prawns and cook for 3 minutes until they start to change color.
Add the Balti Sauce, coconut and almonds then bring to a boil, stirring at the same time.
Add the courgettes and cook gently for about 10 minutes until the prawns are cooked.
Stir in the cream and simmer for 1-2 minutes, then add the coriander.
Season and garnish with flaked almonds.

Crab Curry

Ingredients :
2 crabs
60 ml oil
Kashmiri red chillies (soaked)
1 tbsp ginger
1 tbsp garlic
1tsp poppy seeds (roasted and soaked)
1tsp coriander
1tsp jeera
1 onions
400 ml coconut milk
1 ½ tamarind pulp
2 ( litres) stock

Method :
Put the crab into the boiling stock & boil for 10 mins
Cod & discard toes and stomach sac bellow the shell near the mouth.
Cut the crab into 4 pieces.
Make paste of ingredients
Heat oil in the wok add grounded paste and cook on low flame. Add crabs and toss.
Add tamarind water and reduce on slow fire.
Add coconut milk, bring to boil.
Serve hot.