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Thenga Chertha Meen Varuthathu - Fried Fish with Coconut

Ingredients of Thenga Chertha Meen Varuthathu

Serves: 4

500 gms fish (pearl spot/pomfret)

½ cup oil

Coconut-spice paste:

½ cup grated fresh coconut

12 shallots, chopped

10 dry red chillies, torn into pieces

Juice of 1 lime

½ tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp salt

Method of Preparation of Thenga Chertha Meen Varuthathu

  • Clean fish, keep whole with head and wash thoroughly.
  • Place coconut, shallots and red chillies for coconut spice paste in a pan over low heat and roast till coconut turns brown.
  • Cool and add lime juice, turmeric and salt.
  • Grind to a fine paste with ½ cup water
  • Rub paste over fish, stuff with remaining paste and marinate for an hour.
  • Heat oil in a frying pan and shallow fry fish on both sides till cooked through and brown.
  • Place fish in a platter and pour contents of frying pan over it

Variation: Prawns can be fried in the same way.

 
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