Small fish fry | Indian Fish Fry Recipes | Sunday Special Recipes

Small Fish Fry Recipe - Fish fry is always our family favorite dish. Though I prepare different fish fry recipes like vanjaram fry, masala fish fry etc., I always admire the taste of small fish fry. I don't know why, but I love them a lot. In Singapore whenever I get a chance to see the small fishes, I immediately buy them. This small fish fry I tried last but before week and last week tried Village style Fish Curry with these small fishes and I don't have any words to describe it. Will see that fish curry in my coming post and today lets see the small fish fry preparation. 

You can check all the fish recipes here and some fish fry recipes I have given below 

Masala fish fry

Vanjaram fish fry

Anchovies Fish fry
Andhra style fish fry

Anchovies dry fish fry

Pomfret fry in Kerala Style 
Indian Style Salmon Fish Fry

Small Fish Fry Recipe

Preparation time: 10 min (+ 1hr marination) | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients 

Any small fish - 12 to 15 pieces
Chilli powder - 2 tbsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Rice flour -1 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1tbsp
Salt - as per taste

Method to prepare Small Fish Fry

1. Wash the fishes nicely with salt and turmeric powder nicely. Drain the water. When most of the water got drained, add half the amount of the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, ginger garlic paste and turmeric and all the lemon juice and mix well. Apply this mixture inside the fishes. Leave it aside for 30 minutes.

2. Add the remaining quantity of the powder and the corn and rice flours and mix well, so that fishes are well coated. Leave it again for another 10 minutes.

3. Now in a fish frying pan, add the oil and when it is hot, slowly drop one fish at a time and start frying them on both the sides, till they become golden brown colour on all the sides. Do fry the fishes in small batches.

4. Once you finished frying the fish, fry some curry leaves in the same oil and add on to the small fish fry before serving. Serve the fish fry with the hot hot fish kuzhambu and white rice. 

Yummy yummy Small Fish Fry Recipe is ready. 

Notes

1. You can prepare this fish fry, with any kind of fishes.
2. Marinating the fish is important as it gives more taste to the fish fry recipe. So try to marinate atleast 30 to 40 minutes.
3. Adding corn flour and rice flour, increases the crispiness of the fish and also can reduce the spiciness, when giving to the kids. If you do not like it, you can just omit it.
4. Adding lemon juice, gives a mild tangy flavor to the fish. If you do not like it, you can very well omit that too. 

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Kadai Prawns Recipe | Indian Prawn Recipes

Kadai prawns is very similar to the kadai chicken or kadai paneer and tastes great with the blend of kadai masala and the crunchy bell peppers. Last Sunday, when I was thinking what to cook for the lunch as I have prepared many South Indian Prawn recipes already and wanted something new to try. Then while searching for net, I saw kadai chicken images and suddenly, I made up my mind to try this kadai prawns, following the recipe of kadai chicken here. But did slight changes to adopt to our family taste. 

You can also view some the tasty prawn recipes from this blog
Prawn roast in kerala style
Goan Prawn Vindaloo
Malabar Prawn Curry
Andhra Style Spicy Prawn Curry
Prawn Thokku

Kadai Prawn Recipe

Preparation time: 15 min (+1 hr for marination) | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients

Prawns - 1/2 kg
Onion - 2 (chopped finely)
Tomato - 1 (chopped finely)
Tomato Puree - from 2 tomatos
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Capsicum/bell peppers - 1 cup
Oil - 3 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp (Optional)
Lemon - 1/4 piece (or lemon juice - 1 tsp) (optional)

Ingredients II (For Marination)
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp
Corinader Powder - 1 /2 tsp
Turmeric - 1/5 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Ingredietns III (For Kadai Masala)
Dry Red Chilli - 5
Coriander seeds - 1/2 tbsp
Pepper corns - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Kasuri methi - 1/2 tsp (crushed)

Method to prepare Kadai Prawns

1. Wash and devein the prawns. Keep the kadai masala ready.

2. Add the ingredients mentioned in Ingredietns II list and marianate the prawns for 45 to 1 hr. If keeping in freezer  20 to 30 min is enough.

3. Now dry fry the masala mentioned in ingredients III till nice aroma comes.( around 3 to 4 min). Then ground them to a coarse powder. Keep it aside. 

4. Wash and Cut the bell peppers into cubes. In a kadai, add a tsp of oil and when it is hot, add the bell peppers and a pinch a salt and start cooking. Care should be taken that it retains its crunchiness and don't let it brown. 

5. In a wok or kadai, add oil and when hot add the cumin seeds. When it splutters, add the onion and when onions becomes soft, add the ginger. Saute them well.

6.  Now add the chopped tomato and cook until soft. Now add the tomato puree. Let them cook well of around 4 to 5 min.

7. Now add the prawns. The prawns start to leave out water. Add the ground kadai masala that time and allow them to cook.

8. When the gravy turns to thick as shown in the picture, squeeze quarter lemon. (This step is optional. I added for tangy taste). Keep the flame low.

9. Now add the cooked capsicum or bell peppers and give a stir. Let it cook in low flame for 5 minutes, so that bell peppers absorb the kadai masala. Do not cook for more, as the capsicum looses its crunchiness. Add kasuri methi along with bell peppers. Add the sugar now, mix it well. cook in low for 1 minute and switch off the stove.

10. Garnish with coriander leaves and ginger and Serve the Kadai Prawns with roti or naan or even with plain rice.

Tasty and yummy Kadai Prawns are ready to be served.


Notes:
1. You can always adjust the spice leaves according to your family taste buds. The above one is a medium spicy one. But still my little ones, complained it is bit spicy.
2. For a rich gravy, you can add 3 tbsp of heavy cream, while adding the capsicum.
3. Instead of ginger pieces, you can add ginger paste also. But cook, till the raw smell goes off.
4. Adding capsicum is optional, it gives really nice taste to the gravy.
5. Adding sugar is also optional, but I like to add it to North Indian dishes normally.
6. Adding lemon juice is also optional, but adding it, gives a nice tangy taste. If your tomatoes are tangy already, then you can skip adding lemon juice.

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Prawn Vindaloo | Goan Shrimp Vindaloo | Sunday Special Recipes | Prawn Recipes

Prawn Vindaloo is a Goan dish and it has gone into my favorite list immediately when I tasted it. This is the first time i am trying out this recipe and came out so so good. All my family members loved this recipe so much. I am not sure, whether the traditional recipe has sugar in it, but I added it in order to reduce the spiciness. I got the recipe from here, but modified slightly according to our taste.

You can check some other tasty prawn recipes below

Crispy Prawns
Eral Thokku
Andhra style prawn fry
Malabar Prawn curry
Prawn roast in kerala style
Garlic Butter Prawns

Prawn Pakora

Prawn Vindaloo

Preparation time: 05 min | Cook Time: 15 min | Serves: 3

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients 

Prawns - 20nos
Onion - 2 finely chopped
Tomato - 1
Vinegar - 2 tbsp
Red chillies - 5 to 6
Black pepper corns - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon stick - 1 inch (crushed)
Cloves - 5 to 6
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Curry leaves - 2 springs
Sugar - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/5 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method 

1. Clean the prawns with salt and keep ready. Take all the spices and curry leaves mentioned in the ingredients. 

2. Slightly fry them, adding little oil.

3. Transfer the content to the food processor or mixer. Add the vinegar.

4. Grind to a smooth paste.

5. Add the onions.

6. Again grind to a smooth paste.

7. In a wok or kadai, add the oil. Add the mustard seeds. When it splutters, add the cumin, curry leaves and onion. Fry onions till translucent.

8. Add the chopped tomatoes.

9. Let them cook nicely. After that, add the ground paste.

10. Add the salt and turmeric powder.

11. Add the prawns. Let the prawns cook nicely.

12. Prawn leaves out water. Cook till all water evaporates and oil starts oozing out from the gravy. Add sugar finally. Cook for a min and switch off the stove.

13. Yummy and tasty Prawn Vindaloo is ready.

Yummy Prawn Vindaloo is ready 

Notes:
1. We can add the potato along with this dish.
2. You can add a tbsp of ghee while roasting the spices. It adds more flavor

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Crispy chicken fry | Easy crispy chicken | How to make crispy chicken at home | chicken recipes

I always wanted to try a crispy chicken fry as we get in KFC, since we stopped going to KFC. So after my attempt of trying crispy prawns, I got guts to try this with little variation and I can say this is best as my kids kissed me after eating this crispy chicken fry. So do try this out and drop your comments. 

You can try other chicken recipes below

Chicken gravy for beginners
Kaju Chicken
Nadan Kozhi Curry
Chicken Kuzhambu
Restaurant style chicken 65
Pepper Chicken Chettinad

Crispy Chicken fry

Preparation time: 25 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Chicken - 1/4 kg

Chilli powder - 2 tsp
Black Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

Oregano - 1 tsp

Basil leaves - 1 tsp

All purpose flour - 1 tbsp

Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Rice flour - 1.5 tsp

Bread crumps - as needed ( more than 1.5 cups )

Egg - 2
Turmeric powder - a pinch (optional)

Salt as per taste

Oil for frying

Water for sprinkling 

Method

1. Wash the chicken with salt. Let it drain for 10 min. Then add the salt, chilli powder, turmeric, pepper powder, dry basil leaves, oregano and mix well. 

2. Add the flours to this and again mix it well, sprinkling little water.

3. Take one piece of chicken, dip into the egg, and then rotate nicely in the bread crumps, until the bread crumps are well coated. Leave it aside for 10 min. Repeat the process for all the chicken pieces. 

4. Again dip the coated pieces into the egg and again roll over the bread crumps. This is called double coating. This is done for more crispier layer. 

5. Let the chicken pieces rest again for 5 min. Meanwhile heat the oil in medium flame. Now drop the chicken pieces one by one slowly and fry it. Slightly rotate the chicken pieces in oil for the even browning on all sides.

6. When the pieces turn light brown colour, remove it from oil, dry it and serve it.

7. Serve the crispy chicken fry with the chilli sauce.

Yummy yummy crispy chicken fry is ready. 

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