Ingredients:

• ?cup – Rice
• 750 g – fish fillets (pomfret)
• 2 Lemon juice
• 2 to 3 tsp – Red Chilli powder (or as per taste)
• 2 tsp – Cumin seed powder
• ?tsp – chaat masala powder
• 1 tsp – ajwain
• few drops Orange color
• oil for deep frying
• salt to taste
• To be Ground:
• 2.5 – Ginger
• 10 to 12 Cloves Garlic
• few fresh Mint leaves
• 5 Green chillies

Method:

1. Clean and wash the fish.
2. Apply lemon juice and salt and keep aside for 30 to 40 minutes.
3. Wash and the soak the rice for an hour.
4. Grind the ingredients to be ground into a fine paste.
5. Grind the soaked rice with little water to a fine but little thick batter.
6. Add the ground mint paste, red chilli powder, cumin seed powder, chaat masala powder, ajwain, few drops of orange colour and little salt. Mix well.
7. Marinate the fish pieces in this batter for 40 minutes.
8. Deep fry in hot oil on a medium flame till done and the fish is golden.
9. Serve hot with green chutney, onion kachumbar and lemon wedges.

Recipe courtesy of Anita Raheja