Bengali Crispy Fish Fry Recipe

Fish & SeaFood
Oct 07, 2013
Moumita Ghosh
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Bengali Fish Fry is nothing like the ordinary Fish Steaks fried in mustard oil, this is Fish Fillets, marinated with spices, dipped into a thick batter, coated with bread crumbs and deep fried. Usually this famous evening time Snack is brought from the snacks shop, when guests visit our house. But nowdays everything is available in the local market, so we do not have to depend on the Snack shop for this "Fish Fry". We can make it our own.

Kolkata is very much famous for their street food. There are lots of street food like Egg Roll, Chicken Roll, Chicken Cutlet, Chow Mein, Moghlai Paratha and Bengali Crispy Fish Fry. But it is healthy to have the homemade street foods. This way you can enjoy all the tastes but you will be still with healthy stomach. Here is the recipe of Crispy Bengali Fish Fry.

Details

Yields

4 serving(s)

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Time

Preperation
60 Minutes

Cooking
20 Minutes

Non-Vegeterian

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Cooking Level
Medium

Meal Type
Tiffin/Snacks

Cuisine
Bengali

Ingredients of Bengali Fish Fry

For marinating the Fish Fillets :

White Fish Fillets (Basa, Cod, Catfish, Tilapia) 2 big fillets
Lemon 1
Onion juice 1 cup
Ginger & Garlic paste 2 tablespoon
Cilantro & Green Chili paste 1/2 cup
Garam Masala Power 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste

For the Batter :

Egg 1
Corn flour 1/2 cup
Bread crumb 2 cups
Oil for deep frying
Rock Salt to garnish

Directions to make Bengali Fish Fry in steps

Steps

Marinate the Fish Fillets :

Take two fillets and cut them in 4 equal size. Now take the thick piece and slice it into 2 fillets.
Take all the fillets in a bowl and squeeze the lemon juice on them and sprinkle some salt and leave for 1 hour.
Now take a bowl and add onion juice, ginger garlic paste, cilantro & green chili paste, garam masala powder and mix them. Take the mixture and pour over the fish fillets .
Make sure all the fillets are covered with the mixture. Leave them for 6-8 hours or overnight.

Making the Batter :

Now make a batter with egg, corn flour and some water.
In another plate put the bread crumb.

Coating the Fish Fillets :

Now take each fillets and dip into the egg & corn flour batter and then place on the bread crumb and coat the fillet all over with the bread crumb.
In this same process make rest of the fillets, place them in a plastic container and keep refrigerated for 4 hours.

Frying the Coated Fish Fillets :

Heat enough oil in a deep pan .
Remove from refrigerator and deep fry the Fish Fries and serve hot with some sprinkled Black salt over the Fries and serve with Ketchup and salad.