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Fried Mackerel Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Aravi_vel / All my dishes 2 months, 1 week ago A mackerel feast. a whole mackerel, easy way to slide into your throat Prep:20m Cook:90m Servings:2	Aravi_vel
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Ingredients

Whole mackerel - 8 medium sized

Salt - to taste

Lemon juice - 2 tbsps

Ginger - 2 inch piece

Garlic - 15 cloves

Rose petals - 12 petals

red chilli powder - 3 tbsp

Turmeric powder - half tbsp

Oil - to shallow fry

Coarse Rice flour - 1 cup

Lemon - 1 (for garnish)

Directions

Make a small slit at the stomach and clean mackerels from inside and wash thoroughly.

Make four to five quarter inch deep cuts on both the sides, apply salt and lemon juice. Keep aside for fifteen minutes.

Wash and cut lemon into wedges.

Peel, eash ginger and garlic and grind to a fine paste.

Soak rose petals in a half a cup of warm water for fifteen minutes, remove the strain and keep aside.

Mix red chilli powder, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, rose petal strain and salt and marinate mackerels in this paste for half an hour preferably in a refrigerator.

Heat two tbsps of oil in a frying pan. Roll fish in rice powder and shallow fry in small batches, without overcrowding the pan, for two to three minutes.

Turn fish, continue to cook on medium heat for two minutes or till mackerels are light brown and crisp, adding more oil if needed. Drain onto an absorbent paper.

serve hot garnished with lemon wedges.

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