Fish Pakora
Recipe Ingredients:
- ½ kg fish (Diced)(Rohu/snapper/hoki/sole)
- 1 ½ cup besan (gram flour)
- 2 tbspns lemon juice
- kisan canola cooking Oil for deep frying
- Salt to taste
- 1 tspn red chilli powder
- ½ tspn cracked black pepper
- 1 tbspns chopped mint leaves
- 2 tbspns chopped coriander
- 1 green chilli chopped
- 1 tspn cracked dry coriander
- 1 tspn cumin seeds
- 1 tspn baking powder
- Some water for smooth batter ( ½ to ¾ cup)
Recipe Method:
- In a mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients (besan and baking powder) and spices and mix well.
- Gradually add water and make a smooth, lump free batter. Now the consistency of the batter should not be runny like water or thick like dough. Make it in between, something which is easy to handle.
- Now stir in chopped herbs and chilllies.
- Add fish chunks in this mixture and keep aside for 20 minutes.
- Heat oil to 190 degrees Celsius and put each chunk separately in hot oil for frying. Make sure your fish chunks do not overlap each other.
- When they look brown and cooked take them out on an absorbent paper and serve hot with tartar sauce and lemon wedges.