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Fish Kofta

An yummy and a simple fish recipe made by frying fish balls.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

For extracting fish stock:

  • 250 g Fish without bones
  • Ginger(fine chopped) 1/2 tsp
  • 1/2 tbsp Onion fine chopped
  • 2 nos Green chillies slit
  • 1/2 tbsp Coriander leaves
  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  • Salt As reqd

To be ground:

  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tbsp Chilly powder
  • 1 tbsp Coriander powder
  • 2 cloves Garlic
  • Ginger a small piece
  • 2 nos Shallots Kunjulli
  • 1/2 tsp Pepper powder
  • 1/4 tsp Cummin seeds Jeerakam
  • Tamarind soak in 1/2 cup water and collect tamarind water, Puli
  • 1/2 cup Onion finely sliced
  • 2 nos Green chillies slit
  • Curry leaves Few
  • 1 tsp Sugar

Instructions
 

  • Take a vessel and put fish pieces, chopped ginger, onion, green chillies, coriander leaves, turmeric powder and required salt.
  • Pour 1/2 cup water into the fish pieces and boil. Simmer in medium heat.
  • After the fish pieces are cooked, sieve and collect the fish stock. Crush the cooked fish. Keep the stock aside.
  • For preparing ground mixture, grind turmeric powder, chilly powder, coriander powder, garlic, ginger, shallots, pepper powder and cummin seeds. Keep this ground mixture aside.
  • Into the cooked and roughly crushed fish pieces, add yolk of one egg, crushed bread slice, pepper powder, maida and oil. Mix together and make small lime sized balls.
  • Take a frying pan and pour oil. Heat oil and beat the egg white. Dip the fish balls in egg white and fry until golden. Repeat with all fish balls.
  • In the remaining oil, fry sliced onion, slit green chillies and curry leaves.
  • Pour the ground mixture into the oil and fry until a frying smell comes.
  • Now pour the fish stock, tamarind water, sugar and required salt. Boil the mixture.
  • When boiling starts, lower the flame and dip the fried fish balls one by one.
  • Close the pan with a lid and simmer in low heat until the gravy acquires a thick consistency.
  • When oil accumulates on top, remove the pan from fire.
  • Yummy fish kofta is ready and serve hot.
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