Fish Masala with Poppy Seeds

Fish Masala with Poppy Seeds

Ingredients

Fish 500 gm
Onion (payaz), chopped 1 cup
Curry leaves (curry patta) 10-12
Turmeric (haldi) powder ½ teaspoon
Lime juice (nimboo ka ras) 2 table spoon
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder 1 tea spoon
Ginger Garlic (adrakh lahsan) paste 1 table spoon
Coriander (dhaniya) powder 1 table spoon
Mustard oil (Sarso tel) 3-4 table spoon
Pepper corns (sabut kalimirch) 6-7
Poppy seeds (khuskhus) 3 table spoon
Sesame seeds (safed til) 1 table spoon
Coconut (Nariyel) powder ½ cup
Hot spices (garam masala) powder ½ tea spoon
Coriander leaves (hara dhaniya) ½ cup
Salt (namak) to taste

Instructions

  1. Clean and wash fish pieces and take them in a bowl.
  2. Mix ginger garlic paste, coriander powder, turmeric, salt, chili powder, lime juice, hot spices in a small bowl.
  3. Rub fish pieces with this blended paste, mix well and keep it aside for 15 minutes.
  4. Heat a pan and dry roast poppy seeds, sesame seeds, pepper corns in it, till a fragrance starts coming. Let it cool.
  5. Once cooled completely take this roasted mixture in a grinder jar and add coconut powder in it. Grind the mixture well to make smooth paste.
  6. In pan heat oil, add onions cook till golden brown, and now add this onion to same blender jar and blend it with the earlier prepared paste.
  7. Add this paste to fish and keep it for 30 minutes.
  8. After 30 minutes heat mustard oil in a nonstick pan, add curry leaves and stir it for 30 seconds.
  9. Now add marinated fish and cook it covered in a very slow flame.
  10. Once it is cooked from one side, turn to other side cook till golden brown colour.
  11. Put the flame off and finish it with coriander leaves.
  12. Serve “fish masala with poppy seeds” hot.

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