Bombil Fry – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take the fish and cut off the fins.
• Cut the fish into pieces according to the length you want.
• Cut each piece into two pieces at the center.
• If you want you can remove the bone part of the fish.
• Transfer the cut fish into a bowl.
• Take a newspaper and spread a piece of cloth on it.
• Transfer the cut fish onto the cloth and cover it.
• Again place another newspaper and put a heavyweight on it for about 20-25 minutes.
• The moisture in the fish will be absorbed into the newspaper.
• Transfer the fish into a dish.
• Add ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, salt, coriander leaves, lemon juice, and mix well.
• Let the fish marinate for about 15-20 minutes.
• Take cornflour into a bowl.
• Add a little turmeric powder, a little red chili powder, salt and mix well.
• Add a little water at a time to make the batter having semi-thick consistency.
• The batter should neither be too thick nor too thin.
• Add malvani fish masala, red chili powder, and salt to taste into the marinated fish.
• Be careful while adding salt as we already have added salt while marinating the fish.
• If you don’t have malvani fish masala then you can mix a little coriander powder, cumin powder, red chili powder, garam masala, and use that masala.
• On another plate take rice flour.
• Add a little red chili powder, salt and mix well. Rice flour mixture is ready.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Coat the fish with rice flour mixture, dip them in the batter, and drop in hot oil.
• Fry on medium heat for about 3-4 minutes.
• Take the fish out of the oil onto a plate.
• Bombil fry is already.
• You can have bombil fry as it is.