Finally I am happy to say, I can cook fish!!!. This was my weak point for a long time. I recently tried this delicious Bangda (Meckeral) fry and it was great.
As I said earlier, since I am from North Kanara, a coastal area, we used to get very fresh river and sea fish. Unlike my brother, who is a great fan of fish, I seldom liked fish. One small piece of fish, thats all I could eat in a meal. That too, I liked the fried fish more than fish curry.
While in India, even though we used to go out and have fish, we never used to order fish fry. The reason being, in almost all restaurants it used to be deep fried one and my brother hated deep fried fish. So we used to wait until we went to our native during some vacations to eat this delicious dish.
Ingredients: 4 fish pieces 1/2 tea spn crushed garlic 1/4 tea spn tamarind extract 1 tea spn red chili powder 2 tbl spns Sooji (rava) Oil Salt
Method: Clean fish and apply crushed garlic, tamarind, chili, salt to the pieces and leave it for around half an hour.
Heat tava and put one tea spn oil. Roll the fish in sooji so that there is a coating of it around fish.
Fry on a low flame on all sides.
Serve hot with rice and Kande tamboli .
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 20min
Sweet Corn Soup is one of my favourites. I tried many time to get the same taste as they served in restaurants. But could not. So last time when I had brought some corn, I thought of doing some trial and error. This turned out to be great. This had a slight taste like popcorn(I simply love popcorn!!!).The picture has not come well. But I did not wanted to wait till I prepare this next time.
Ingredients : Sweet corn 2 cups Soya sauce 1/2 tea spn Pepper powder 1/2 tea spn Salt
Method: Add 2 cups of water to sweet corn and cook till corn becomes slightly tender. Keep aside 2 tea spns of corn and grind the remaining(along with water) to a smooth paste. Heat the corn paste. Add the reserved cooked corn, salt, pepper and soya sauce. Cook till the soup becomes slightly thick. Serve hot.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 15min
