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Kerala Style Spicy Baked Fish Fry

Published: Jul 18, 2017 by Manju · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

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Spicy fish “fry” that is baked instead, with some delicious Kerala style spice marinade. This is a great side to rice and curry or even an appetizer!

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Kerala Style Spicy Baked Fish Fry

Being a vegetarian, you would think I will have a tough time cooking with meat and seafood. But its not. The reason I am a vegetarian is because I have been brought up one and Ive been one for way too long for me to develop a taste for meat and seafood and actually like it. I just treat them all as just ingredients and I don’t find them gross or unapproachable. Being married to a meat-a-holic helps too, as I use him as a testing board for everything meat and seafood I make.

Chicken and meat has been easier to make, as I know they can stand spices, especially in the Indian style preparations and once I got used to cooking with them and knew the ingredient, I ventured out to cooking with them in other cuisines and eventually, developing my own recipes with them. But seafood was something I was always a little intimidated by.

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Fish and shell fish seemed too delicate, that I was afraid I would over power them with spices or worse, overcook them. But I couldn’t deny my mallu-boy ( the husband is from Kerala, where seafood is consumed widely and mallu is slang for the language Malayalam and also someone from Kerala) some good spicy seafood.

All Kerala seafood dishes are covered with spices and coconut, that I knew if I tried and experimented a little, I would eventually get it right. I used ready-made spices for fish fry and make a quick fish fry on the stove top for the husband, from time to time. I even ventured into making curries with prawns and I got that right. I was not comfortable making a good fish curry, up until last year, where I came up with the perfect recipe, for me at least, so I cant mess it up without tasting it Smile

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This baked fish “fry” is a similar recipe, where you really cant go wrong much. A good spice marinade for the fish fillets and pop it in the oven till the marinade is all cooked through. The fish comes out nice and flavored. Go ahead, try it, I know you will love it as much as my meat-a-holic did.

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Kerala Style Spicy Baked Fish Fry

Spicy fish “fry” that is baked instead, with some delicious Kerala style spice marinade. This is a great side to rice and curry or even an appetizer!
4.50 from 2 votes
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Course: Main, Seafood Side
Cuisine: Indian, Kerala
Prep Time: 40 minutes
Cook Time: 23 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 3 minutes
Servings: 2 people
Calories: 215kcal
Author: Manju
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Ingredients

  • 0.75 lb Mahi Mahi fillet (2 fillets of about 6-8 inches in length) or any other fatty fish

To crush together to a paste:

  • 4 pearl onions
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 inch ginger
  • ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1 teaspoon Kashmiri Chilie Powder
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper corns
  • 1 ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon coconut oil
  • ½ lime juiced
  • ½ teaspoon garam masala

Instructions

  • Put all the ingredients under "crush to form a paste" in a mortar and pestle and grind to form as fine a paste as possible.
  • Cut the fish fillets into two and make small slits in them. Smear the paste equally over all the fillets and marinate in the refrigerator for 20-30 mins.
  • Pre heat oven to 375F
  • Line the fish on a baking tray with parchment paper on it and bake for 20 mins. To finish it off, broil on high for 3-4 mins.
  • Serve with raw red onion slices and lime wedges.

Notes

To check for doneness: teh spice / masala paste on the fish should have changed color slightly and not look too raw.

Nutrition

Calories: 215kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 124mg | Sodium: 1898mg | Potassium: 860mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 680IU | Vitamin C: 11.4mg | Calcium: 63mg | Iron: 2.6mg
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  1. Nilam cahudhary says

    July 19, 2017 at 12:31 am

    4 stars
    The taste is really great, thanks a lot for sharing such awesome recipe

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    • Manju says

      July 19, 2017 at 12:48 am

      Thank you Nilam ?

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  2. pushpendra dwivedi says

    July 23, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    5 stars
    cooking related fantastic blog

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