Rice with Fish Balls

Rice with Fish Balls

Ingredients

For Rice
Basmati Rice (chawal) 2 cups
Onions (payaz), finely chopped 1 cup
Garlic (lahsan), paste 1 table spoon
Ginger (adrakh) paste 1 table spoon
Black pepper (kali mirch), powder ½ tea spoon
Fennel seeds (saunf), powder ½ tea spoon
Hot spices (garam masala) 1 tea spoon
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder ½ tea spoon
Turmeric (haldi) powder ½ tea spoon
Salt to taste
Curry leaves (curry patta) 1 sprig
Lemon juice (nimboo ka ras) 2 table spoon
Chopped coriander (hara dhaniya) 3-4 table spoon
Clarified butter 3 table spoon
Vegetable oil 1 table spoon

For balls

Fish Fillet, cut into pieces 250 grams
Potato (aalo) 1 medium
Onion (payaz), chopped 2 table spoon
Garlic (lahsan) 1 table spoon
Ginger (adrakh) 1 table spoon
Green chili (hara mirch) chopped 1 table spoon
Salt (namak) to taste
Turmeric (haldi) powder ½ tea spoon
Lemon Juice (nimboo ka ras) 2 table spoon
Hot spices (garam Masala) Powder ½ tea spoon
Coriander leaves (hara dhaniya), chopped 2 table spoon
Egg (anda) 1
Corn flour 3 table spoon
Vegetable Oil for frying

Instructions

  1. Boil and mash potatoes and keep aside.
  2. Boil the fish with some salt, remove the bones and mash it.
  3. Now heat oil in a pan and add onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies and sauté it for 5-7 minutes.
  4. When onion becomes golden brown add salt, turmeric powder along with the mashed fish pieces.
  5. Now add boiled potatoes & hot spices powder into fish and cook them for further 10 minutes.
  6. Once the mixture becomes dry add lemon juice and coriander leaves and turn off the heat and let the mixture cool.
  7. In the mean time beat egg in a bowl and keep aside.
  8. Once mixture is cooled, add little corn flour and make small balls with it.
  9. Heat enough oil in a pan.
  10. Dip each ball in egg and fry till the balls are golden brown.
  11. Remove the crispy fried balls from the oil and place onto kitchen towel.

For Rice

  • 1. Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes.
  • 2. Boil rice with some salt and 1 tea spoon of vegetable oil and keep it aside.
  • 3. Heat clarified butter add onions, and cook till it becomes golden in colour.
  • 4. Add the curry leaves, ginger and garlic and sauté it for about 1 minute.
  • 5. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, hot spices and fennel powder and stir it.
  • 6. Now add rice and salt and cook it for 7-8 minutes.
  • 7. Now add prepared fish balls and mix it with soft hand.
  • 8. Now add lemon juice and chopped coriander and put the flame off.
  • 9. Serve Rice with fish balls with onion rings.

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