Method

• 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.

• Recipe Type : Fish, kababs / Starter, Non vegetarian