🇮🇳 Indian

Vanjaram Fry

Name: Vanjaram Fry
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tsp Salt; 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder; 1, juiced Lemon; for shallow frying Sesame Oil; 1.5 tsp Red Chili Powder; 4 steaks, vanjaram (seer fish) White Fish; 1/4 cup Rice Flour; 1 tsp, coarsely crushed Black Pepper

🇮🇳 Indian

Seer fish steaks in the classic Tamil fry marinade — thick, meaty, meaty-white fish with a cracked pepper crust that fish markets across the Coromandel coast fight over.

Prep 20 min Cook 15 min Serves 2 Easy

Ingredients

Salt1 tsp
Turmeric Powder1/2 tsp
Lemon1, juiced
Sesame Oilfor shallow frying
Red Chili Powder1.5 tsp
White Fish4 steaks, vanjaram (seer fish)
Rice Flour1/4 cup
Black Pepper1 tsp, coarsely crushed

Optional extras

Curry Leaves8

Instructions

1
Score the steaks shallowly so the marinade gets in.
2
Rub with turmeric, chili powder, pepper, lemon, salt and a spoon of oil.
3
Marinate 30 minutes.
4
Shallow fry in sesame oil on medium till deep gold on both sides.
5
Rest on a rack; serve with raw onion and lime.

Chef's tip

Sesame oil, not neutral oil — vanjaram fry without its nutty edge is just fried fish.

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