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Smoked Fish - Indian Style

Recipe - for smoked fish
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

  • Fish Seer, salmon, pearl spot, pomfret etc. - 1/2kg
  • 4 tbsp Red Chilli fine powder
  • 1 pinch Turmeric powder
  • 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
  • epper powder As rqrd
  • Table salt As rqrd
  • 1 tsp Corn flour
  • 1 tsp Malt Vinegar
  • 1 tbsp Water

Instructions
 

  • Clean & Slice seer fish into thin pieces. :- For other fishes keep it whole.
  • Dry the wet pieces with a piece of cloth.
  • Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and smear on both the sides of the fish.
  • keep it aside for marination for at least 2 hours
  • Take a deep tawa (aapachatti). Put 4 tbsp saw dust. Place a circular grill above the saw dust and not touching it.
  • Place one layer of the marinated fish on the grill . Cover the tawa with a loose lid.
  • Heat the tawa . The saw dust starts burning producing smoke and heat. Smoke escapes out of the loose lid.
  • Cook it not more than 5 minutes.
  • For the next batch, change the burnt saw dust with fresh saw dust. Cook the remaining fish similarly.
  • Garnish with lemon, cucumber,tomato, onion, and mint chutney.
  • :- Serve it hot.
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