Fish First
Pan fried fish from the food rich city of Lahore.
Servings Prep Time
3 20minutes
Cook Time
25minutes
Servings Prep Time
3 20minutes
Cook Time
25minutes
Ingredients
For the sauce
Instructions
For the fish
  1. Cut fish fillet into 7 equal portions, lengthwise.
  2. Put salt, ginger-garlic paste on each piece. Leave aside for 10 minutes, then wash and strain excess water.
  3. Put chopped ginger and garlic on fish pieces after washing.
  4. Mix rice flour and corn flour. Then mix in the eggs and add lemon juice, red food colouring and mix well.
  5. Add all the spices. Beat together into a smooth paste.
  6. Dab this paste onto fish pieces and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
  7. Remove from fridge and shallow fry on tawa in desi ghee.
For the sauce
  1. Remove seeds from the dried dates.
  2. Boil in 2 cups of water for 5-10 minutes to soften dates.
  3. When water reduces to half (1 cup), remove from heat and add all the other ingredients for the sauce.
  4. Grind to a fine paste.
  5. Add a pinch of salt to the paste and mix.
  6. Serve with fish.