Ingredients:
Tilapia - 1/2 pound
Semolina/Rava/Sooji - 1/2 cup
Cayenne Pepper/Red chilli powder - 3 tbsp
Turmeric/Haldi - 1/4 tsp
Tamarind Paste - 1 tsp
Garlic - 4 big clovesSalt - about 1/2 tsp
Oil
Method:
1. In a mixing bowl, add cayenne pepper, turmeric, tamarind paste, crushed garlic and salt. Add about 1 - 2 tbsp water and mix all the ingredients well to form a thick paste.2. Add the washed tilapia pieces in this paste, coat them well. Keep it covered (preferably refrigerated) for about an hour or more.
3. Coat the marinated tilapia pieces in semolina. (You can add salt, cayenne pepper in semolina as well.) Discard the garlic pieces.
4. Heat a frying pan and add about 1 tbsp oil. Shallow fry the semolina coated tilapia pieces till both sides turn nice crisp and semolina turns slightly brown. Drizzle little more oil if required. Crispy Rava Fish Fry is ready.
Wow! looks so crispy and yummy, never tried with semolina, nice idea, thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeletei love it with semolina, it will be so crispy, i have tried using it with prawns but not with fish...will surely try this one next time, and less oily too...
ReplyDeleteCrispy fish fry looks super delicious and tempting..
ReplyDeleteI am sure fish lovers will be enjoy this awesome dish...looks great!!
ReplyDeletenever tried like this...actually i like all your konkani recipes...interesting.very nice version. great
ReplyDeletesounds yummy...very tempting n crispy...gonna try soon uma.
ReplyDeletenice..looks crispy!
ReplyDeletegreat recipe..I do not eat fish though, but the idea of marinating was good...but what is cayenne pepper?
ReplyDeletehi uma how are you this is really nice snacks , crispy snacks yummy
ReplyDeleteI often make fish fries but never tried with semolina. Got to try this version. Very nice idea Uma
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Tilapia is my Fav...this looks so spicy and yummy!!!!
ReplyDeleteCrispy and yummy..adding semolina surely will make it real crispy..
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this is just awesome and made perfectly... love this dish :)
ReplyDeleteLooks very crispy to me, good to add semolina...looks beautiful too:)
ReplyDeletewoooooooooooow, looks so crispy and tempting..marinating with tamarind pulp and coating with sooji sounds interesting and uinque to me...must try your version sometime..
ReplyDeleteThats a yummy crispy fry. Its a new trial with semolina. Hope v can use semolina for other crispy deep fries also. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteuma really different one from what i make..fish fry with semolina..sure it will be a crispy fry.. looks delicious..tilapia fry with rasamrice wow yummy one
ReplyDeleteThanks Sarah, Suja, Priya, Malar, Suman, Women-Wisdom, Prani for the encouraging feedback.
ReplyDeleteVery crisp and delicious......
ReplyDeleteWe call it as Rava fish fry(semolina fish fry).