Crisp Fish Strips with Indian Flavours

Name: Crisp Fish Strips with Indian Flavours
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: Vegetable oil for frying; 50 g/2 oz rice flour; 450 g/1 lb white firm-fleshed fish fillets, cut into strips; 50 g/2 oz chickpea flour; 2 limes or lemons; 2 cloves garlic, chopped; 2 tablespoons chopped coriander; Shake of hot pepper seasoning; 1 teaspoon cumin; ½ teaspoon curry powder; salt and black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hot and Spicy

By Marlena Spieler

Published 1985

About

Tender strips of white-fleshed fish are seasoned assertively then tossed in chickpea flour and rice flour and fried to crispness. Serve with a squeeze of lemon or lime, and a shake of hot pepper seasoning.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb white firm-fleshed fish fillets, cut into strips
2 limes or lemons

Asia
India
Fish course
Pescatarian
Spicy

Method

Sprinkle the fish strips with the juice from 1 lime or lemon and toss well.
Add the garlic, coriander, hot pepper seasoning, cumin, curry powder, salt, pepper, chickpea flour and rice flour, and mix to coat well.
Heat enough oil to reach a depth of 1.25 cm/½ in or so. When very hot, shake off excess flour and spices from the fish, then plunge the stri