Recipe: Appetizing Kerala Style Fish Fry Meen Varuthathu

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Kerala Style Fish Fry Meen Varuthathu. Meen Varuthathu Recipe - Kerala Style Fish Fry uses very few spices to coat the fish, and the fish is shallow/pan fried in coconut oil infused with curry leaves. The end result is flavourful and aromatic. Truly a treat to the taste buds!

This recipe for Fried fish (meen varuthathu, varutha meen) is simple, tasty, and it's how the Malayalis do it, although I must admit that every home will have their own version and method of making fish fry. especially the recipe for marinating the fish before frying.

Apply little salt and lime juice on the fish pieces and wash it with water.

Grind together ingredients listed from ginger- garlic to salt into a fine paste adding a little water.

You can have Kerala Style Fish Fry Meen Varuthathu using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Kerala Style Fish Fry Meen Varuthathu

  1. You need 6 pieces of king mackerel or pomfret.

  2. You need as needed of Coconut oil.

  3. Prepare 2 tbsp of kashmiri red chilli powder.

  4. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

  5. It’s 1/2 tsp of black pepper powder.

  6. You need 1 tsp of coriander powder.

  7. It’s to taste of Salt.

  8. You need 1 tbsp of lemon juice.

  9. It’s 1 tbsp of garlic paste.

Kerala Style Fish Fry ( Meen varuthathu) Category: Fish & Seafood.

Fish steaks marinated with spices and then shallow fried.

A very common dish at a South Indian home.

It's an easy and a great appetizer and also goes well with rice.

Kerala Style Fish Fry Meen Varuthathu step by step

  1. In a mixing bowl add garlic paste, red chilli, turmeric, black pepper, coriander, salt, oil, lemon juice mix well.make a thick paste..

  2. Apply the paste to the pieces of fish..

  3. Heat a frying pan with the oil, add the curry leaves, then immediately add the fish and fry them in coconut oil on a medium flame..

  4. Kerala Style Fish Fry is ready..

You can use King Fish, Seer Fish.

The fish is marinated in garcinia cambogia/malabar tamarind water along with the other ingredients and that make the fish super tasty.

Kerala fish fry recipe that is literally hot and spicy.

Vinegar used in this recipe makes a pleasant tangy addition to this simple dish that can be easily prepared at home.

Fish fry was something I always ate growing up in Kerala, the southern state of India..