How much cooking time?

30 min — 20 min prep, 10 min cooking.

Sardine Fry

Name: Sardine Fry
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Kerala Indian
Ingredients: 6g Curry Leaves; 15g ginger garlic paste; 3g black pepper powder; 12g Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder; 10g Lemon; 6g salt; 30g Shallots; 50g Coconut Oil; 2g Turmeric Powder; 500g Sardine (Mathi / Chalai)

Sardines marinated in chilli-turmeric paste and fried in coconut oil. Cheapest and most popular Kerala fish.

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Time 30 min · Serves 4 · 324 kcal · Coastal Kerala, Kerala

Ingredients

Garnish

Curry Leaves (garnish) — 6 g

Main

ginger garlic paste — 15 g
black pepper powder — 3 g
Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder — 12 g
Lemon — 10 g
salt — 6 g
Shallots — 30 g
Coconut Oil — 50 g
Turmeric Powder — 2 g
Sardine (Mathi / Chalai) — 500 g

Method

Clean sardines, remove scales and gut; make slits.
Grind shallots, ginger-garlic paste, chilli, turmeric, pepper, salt and lemon juice.
Coat sardines and marinate for 30 minutes.
Heat coconut oil in a flat pan.
Fry sardines 4 minutes on each side till crisp.
Fry curry leaves in the same oil; put over fish.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Sardine Fry?: 324 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 30 min — 20 min prep, 10 min cooking.

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