Surmai Rava Fry – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Cut surmai into about 1/2” thick slices.
• Wash them really good, drain all the water and tap them with a dry cloth or paper so that the moisture content in them will be minimum.
• For marinating add ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, salt, lemon juice in the fish and rub everything well from all sides of it.
• Keep it aside for marinating for about 15-20 minutes.
• Take a broad bowl.
• Add Rava, rice flour, 1/2 tsp red chili powder, and salt to taste.
• Mix well and outer coating for fish is ready.
• For making masala in a bowl take red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala, salt to taste, and mix well.
• Add a little water to make a thick paste of it.
• Add coriander leaves and mix well. You can skip coriander leaves if you don’t like it.
• The consistency of the masala should be medium and spreadable.
• It should neither be too thick or too thin.
• Take the marinated fish and spread about a tbsp masala on it from all sides.
• Dip the masala coated fish in rava mixture and smear rava on it from all sides.
• You can store such masala and rava coated fish in a steel daba or zip lock bag in the freezer for about 3-4 months.
• Heat up oil on high heat.
• When the oil is really hot reduce the heat to medium.
• Drop the fish in hot oil.
• The oil should be very hot while dropping fish in it.
• Fry on medium heat from one side and flip the fish over.
• Fry form another side too on medium heat for another 3-4 minutes.
• Take the fish out into a dish and surmai Rava fry is already.
• You can have surmai fish fry as it is.
• It goes well with rice bhakari oe with rice as a side dish too.