Thursday, February 5, 2009

Spinach Fish Fry

This recipe is a kids version of my usual fish fry. An easy way to attract kids to eat a bit of leafy vegetables too. This is my own style of cooking which i invented according to my tastes and necessities(like moving the fried onions/veggies to the edges and frying the fish in the middle). I use the same style to fry chicken with different vegetables.


Ingredients:
Fish - 3 cat fish fillets (4 fillets would serve 3)
Spinach - a cup
Tomato - hand full size
Onions - 2 big hand fulls scliced.
Any coloured sweet peppers - 1/2 cup chopped.
oil to fry

Spice rub: grated ginger-garlic, salt, red chilli powder,turmeric, cumin powder, whole cumin - a pinch, corriander powder, garam masala, half a lemon juice, olive oil.

Method:
  1. Mix all the spice rub ingredients and apply this on both sides of the fish fillets which i chopped each into 3 pieces.
  2. The frying pan has to be most essentially a wide one which can accomadate all the fish pieces. If u are cooking for many people, can repeat this frying for each batch.
  3. Add enough oil to fry the onions and sweet peppers. Once they are semi cooked, empty the middle of pan by pushing all the onions to the ends as u can see in the picture and add more oil and arrange all fish pieces in the middle of the pan.


  4. Pan has to be on medium high heat and fry one side of fish until it has a nice brown fried sear. Meanwhile keep moving the onions on the edges without bothering the fish. Flip the fish pieces to the other side and let the other side also fry. Once u know the other side is semi done, add chooped tomatoes and spinach to the edges of the pan, sprinkle little salt on them and cover with a lid. By the time the spinach and tomatoes cook, the fish should be done both sides. Once everything is cooked, mash the tomatoes, spinach, onion mixture frying on the borders and bring them onto the fish and flip the fish only if you can, without breaking them and let the whole dish ingredients get together.
  5. This dish tastes tangy and sweet too with the caramalized onions and peppers.
  6. We eat this with rice or chapathi, but i should say its great with rice. Its like heaven on the plate for my 4 yrs son.

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