Tarayla Boomla

Fried Bombay Ducks

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Route to Parsi Cooking: From Pars to India and Beyond

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2024

  • About

The name Bombay Duck Fish was a mispronunciation by the British of the local Bengalis, referring to the boombils announcing their arrival by mail trains from Mumbai (Bombay) Daak Fish. Oblivious to the local language of daak being mail, it soon turned to duck!

Our love for fish began in the Persian Gulf and continues through the Arabian Sea and beyond. The methods over decades and generations have amazingly remained the same: washing the fish in vinegar, applyin