Ingredients for Sesame Fish:
1. Oil – ¼ cup
2. Onions sliced thin – 1 cup
3. Turmeric powder – 1 small spoon
4. Ginger sliced lengthwise – 2 small spoons
Garlic – 12 cloves
Green chillies – 4, split into two
5. Kashmiri chilli powder – 2 small spoons
Pepper powder – 1 small spoon
Mustard – A pinch
Garlic – 10 cloves
Ginger – 1 small piece
6. Tomato chopped – ½ cup
7. Water – 2 cups
8. Fish – 1 kg, cut into small pieces
9. Pot tamarind squeezed thick – 1 small spoon
Curry leaves – As required
Salt – As needed
10. Sesame seeds – 2 small spoons fried
How to prepare Sesame Fish?
1. Make a paste of ingredients no: 5.
2. Heat oil and sauté onions.
3. Add turmeric powder and fry again.
4. Add ingredients no: 4, fry and remove from the oil.
5. Strain the remaining oil and add a little more oil to it. Adjust it to ¼ cup of oil.
6. When the oil heats, add the ground paste (ingredients no: 5) and reduce the flame.
7. Sauté the paste well till the raw smell goes out, and a thin layer of oil appears on the surface.
8. Add 2 cups of water to it and stir well.
9. When water boils, add fish pieces.
10. Add ingredients no: 9, and cook the fish.
11. When the gravy thickens, add sauteed onions and other fried ingredients.
12. Cook for a few more minutes and sprinkle sesame seeds.
13. You can decorate this fish dish using steamed vegetables of your choice.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, February 15-29, 2020
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