Baby Moon Fish Fry is a delicious dish in this rainy season, which is very easy to prepare with very limited ingredients (which are always available in your pantry). You can take it with rice or can take it as a snack. Moonfish is a very rare fish, but in the time of the rainy season, it is available in the local market.
What is Moonfish? Moonfish is the common name for members of the Menidae family. This is shaped like a moon and hence the name, they are associated with freshwater habitats,
It is a rich source of protein, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12
The types of equipment required for this recipe are
Mixing Bowl
Fry pan /Griddle /Concave tawa
Spatula
Ingredients required are
Baby Moon fish: I purchased the small one, the sizes are70 gm. Each
Oil; I used mustard oil
Curd:
Turmeric powder
Ginger-mint paste: Blended ginger and mint
Red chili powder
Kashmiri mirch powder
Cumin-coriander powder
Gram flour
Rice flour
Garlic-Coriander leaves paste; made a fresh paste of coriander leaves and garlic
Salt
How to Make Baby Moon Fish Fry Recipe
Take a big mixing bowl and add fresh curd, then add gram flour
Add rice flour
Add turmeric, cumin-coriander, Kashmiri mirch, and red chili powder
Add salt and ginger-mint paste
Mix them well and make a smooth batter
Add garlic-coriander leaves paste and mix them well
Now take the cleaned and washed baby Moon fish in a big bowl
Add them and message them well with the batter, and keep them aside for 30 minutes to rest
Heat oil in a pan/ griddle, let it come to a smoky point, then add the fish to fry
Turn them over to the other side and fry them well
Once fried on both sides, take them out from the oil, and in the same way fry the other fish
Transfer them to a serving plate and serve hot
Baby Moon Fish Fry Recipe
Equipment
- 2 mixing bowl
- tawa/griddle
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 5 Baby moon fish
- 1/2 cup curd
- 1/2 cup gram flour
- 1/2 cup rice flour
- 1 tbsp. turmeric powder
- 1/2 tbsp. red chili powder
- 1 tbsp. kasmiri chili powder
- 1 tbsp. cumin- coriander powder
- 1 tbsp. Ginger-mint paste
- 1 tbsp. garlic- coriander leaves paste
- 1/2 cup oil
- salt
Instructions
- Take a big mixing bowl and add fresh curd, then add gramflour
- Add rice flour
- Add turmeric, cumin-coriander, Kashmiri mirch and red chilipowder
- Add salt and ginger-mint paste
- Mix them well and make a smooth batter
- Add garlic-coriander leaves paste and mix them well
- Now take the cleaned and washed the baby Moon fish in a bigbowl
- Add them and message them well with the batter, and keepthem aside for 30 minutes to rest
- Heat oil in a pan/ griddle, let it come to the smoky point,then add the fish to fry
- Turn them over to the other side and fry them well
- Once fried both the sides, take them out from the oil, andsame way fry the other fish
- Transfer them to a serving plate and serve hot