When my aunty and uncle came to our place this June, and when the rainy June seemed to be unspottable, we had a few Rui pieces which were lying in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. And since I am a maniac when it comes to eating freshly made fish curries, my aunty decided to turn the tables around me with this recipe.She cooked those fishes with such a twist that I had mopped up my plate with them.
Yesterday (Saturday) I decided to cook the same for my wife and she loved it so much, that she repeated my act.
Yesterday (Saturday) I decided to cook the same for my wife and she loved it so much, that she repeated my act.
Preparation Time:10 mins
Cooking Time:30 mins
Serves:3
Ingredients:
- Rui: 250 gms. Cut into around 25 pieces.
- Onion: 50 gms.Sliced longitudinally.
- Ginger:1/4th of an inch.Crushed.
- Garlic:3-4 cloves.Crushed
- Tomato: 25 gms. Cut into fine pieces
- Green Chili: 3-4.Cut into small pieces.
- Powdered Spices
- Cumin Powder:1 tsp
- Turmeric Powder: 1.5 tsp for coating the fish pieces, 1 tsp for the fry
- Dry Red Chili Powder:1 tsp
- Whole Spices:
- Dry Red Chili:2
- Cumin Seeds: 1/2 tsp
- Salt: To taste
- Sugar: 1 tsp
- Mustard Oil: 3 tbsp for frying the fishes, 2 tbsp for the curry
Procedure:
- Coat the fish pieces with turmeric powder and salt to taste and leave aside for 10 mins.
- Fry the fish pieces in 3tbsp mustard oil, 5-6 pieces at a time until the pieces turn reddish brown.
- Rest the fried fishes on a piece of tissue to soak in the excess oil.
- Heat 2 tbsp of mustard oil in the same kadai.
- When the oil gets hot, add the whole spices first.
- Let the spices start to crackle, then add the powdered spices.
- After 1 min, add the ginger and garlic pastes.
- Stir for another minute and then add the onion slices.
- Sprinkle the sugar onto the onion and cook until the onion slices turn reddish brown.
- Then add the tomato pieces.
- Cook until all the juices from the tomato disappears.
- Then add the green chilies.Adjust the amount of salt required.
- Fry for 2 more minutes.
- Then add the fried fish pieces.
- Stir fry for 6-8 mins further.
Then serve with rice.
