Jardi

My Dad called this dish a rice puller—so tasty you keep needing more rice, as you can’t stop eating it. Jardi is a curry made from cured, dried fish such as mackerel and tuna, or smaller fish. In Sri Lanka, the small inland boutiques tend to breed small perch or carp in tanks. As the natural flavour of these fish is not so good, they are cured first, and then deep-fried till they are crisp. Then the flavour is wonderful.

I have a curing recipe scrawled on a page from an old exercise