Saturday, November 15, 2008

Fish curry - attempt to make it similar to Highway gomantak



Highway Gomantak is my favourite place for fish curry in the world. And their food is so light on stomach and so tasty that I just cannot resist going there every alternate time we go out. I wish I could go there more often but Saurabh doesn't like seafood that much.
Here is one attempt to make my curry taste like theirs. I must say I was fairly successful. See pic.
Well I did some reverse engineering to figure it out. And some experimentation too (coz I added tomato and I know that they don't add tomato).
Ingredients:
1) Pomfret fish (1 fish)
2) Grated coconut - handful of it
3) 1/2 lemon
4) 1 tomato
5) 1 onion
6) fresh garlic
7) fresh ginger
8) Dhania powder, lotsa haldi, red chilli powder, jeera

Method:
Mix 2-7 and grind it in a mixie. Make a good paste.
Add a little oil in the paste and add ingredients in point 8 and grind again. This trick I learnt from my maid.
Heat a little oil in a pan. Add this mixture into it. Saute for a while. Note our onion is not cooked and it takes a while to cook so do let it cook for a while. Add fish pieces. Add water if required (and you will require). And let the fish cook. Pomfret cooks fairly fast.

Pomfret/King Fish Fry + coriander garlic lemon brown rice


The recipe that I learned from Paramesh (very spicy):
Key ingredient - Badshah Fish Masala (he would insist that no other masala is good :))
Ingredients list:
1) Badshah fish masala (1 table spoon)
2) Red chilli powder (1 teaspoon)
3) Turmeric powder (4 teaspoon)
4) Ginger Galic paste (1 teaspoon)
5) 1 lemon
6) Pomfret cut in thin slices

Mix 1-5 to make a paste. Add pomfret pieces to it and coat the pieces well. Let it marinate for atleast 30 minutes.
In a non-stick tawa add some olive oil. Add these pieces and fry them till they are golden brown.


My own recipe (very mild) - sometimes I like only the taste of the fish:
1) Lemon
2) 1 teaspoon haldi
3) 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
4) Rawa

Marinate your fish with a coating of 1-3 for atleast 30 mins.
Take rawa in a plate. In a non-stick tawa add some olive oil. Coat your marinated fish pieces in rawa and fry them.



Recipe of coriander garlic lemon brown rice
The name itself is sufficient - this is my own recipe and quite a hit with myself and saubhy (husband)