Burmese Recipes
Fish Kofta Recipe
Prep Time | 15 minutes |
Cook Time | 60 minutes |
Servings |
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Ingredients
- 250 g boneless Fish Pieces
- ½ tsp Ginger chopped
- ½ tbsp onion chopped
- ½ cup onion sliced
- 4 Green chilies slit
- ½ tbsp coriander leaves
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 egg
- 1 Bread Slice (soaked drained, and crushed)
- ¼ tsp pepper powder
- ½ tbsp maida All-purpose Flour
- 1 cup Oil
- small ball of tamarind
- Few curry leaves
- 1 tsp sugar
For Masala
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- ½ tbsp chilly powder
- 1 tbsp coriander powder Dhania
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 small ” ginger piece
- 2 Shallots
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ¼ tsp Cumin seeds Jeera
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Instructions
- Soak tamarind in ½ cup water and strain, reserving the water.
- Mix fish pieces with ginger, chopped onion, 2 green chillies, coriander leaves, turmeric powder, some water, and salt in a large saucepan. Cook on medium heat until the fish turns tender.
- Strain the mixture, separating the fish and stock. Mash the boiled fish and keep aside.
- Grind together all the ingredients of grounded masala.
- Separate the egg yolk and white. Beat the egg white well.
- Mix mashed fish with egg yolk, bread, pepper powder, maida, and 1 tsp oil. Shape the mixture into medium-sized balls.
- Heat oil in a pan. Dip the balls in the egg white and fry them until golden brown.
- Heat the remaining oil in a separate pan and fry sliced onion, remaining 2 green chillies, and curry leaves.
- Mix in ground masala and cook well.
- Pour in fish stock, tamarind water, sugar, and salt. Stir and simmer.
- Put in fish balls and cover the pan. Cook on low flame until the curry thickens and oil floats up.
- Serve hot.