Recipe: Perfect Fried Omena

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Recipe: Perfect Fried Omena Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Fried Omena. See recipes for Omena Fried, Deep Fried Marinated Omena too. Fried omena. #judithmuhatia #friedomena Today's Recipe is popularly known as simple fried omena recipe/ugali, Silver Cyprinid in English. This is the best oil Fried Omena Recipe, must Cook for Special Occasions.

Omena is a small fish called silvery cyprinid or the Lake Victoria sardine.

Omena is found in some fresh water lakes in East Africa such as Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga.

Omena is very important for the people living around Lake Victoria.

You can have Fried Omena using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Fried Omena

  1. Prepare of Omena.

  2. It’s of Cooking oil.

  3. It’s of onion.

  4. You need of Capscicum.

  5. It’s of Salt.

  6. Prepare of large tomato.

  7. You need of msherekha/vinegar.

  8. Prepare of fresh lemon.

Serve with fries or your choice accompaniment.

Heat enough cooking oil in a pan and throw in chopped onions, then add the omena.

Add salt, tomatoes, tomato paste and whatever other spices you choose.

Add a little water to prevent them from sticking onto the pan.

Fried Omena step by step

  1. Pick omena to remove dirt and stones if any..

  2. Thoroughly wash with hot water. Sieve them and on a separate bowl squeeze the lemon juice on top to soak into the omena..

  3. Kind of deep/shallow fry the omena into crunchy and golden brown..

  4. Cut and fry onions into golden brown, add tomatoes and capsicum and stir to form a sauce, add salt then add the omena and stir..

  5. Add msherekha/vinegar, let it simmer for about 5 minutes then serve hot with ugali..

Keep a check on the omena as they fry.

A bunch of finely chopped coriander leaves.

An estimate of two million Kenyans depends on the Omena processing chain to earn a living.

How to Cook Omena: Chef Rachel Omena Recipe at Tuko Bites

Paistettua nuudelia, kanaa ja vihanneksia/ Dagaa is a very nutritious meal full of calcium.