Fish Masala

Name: Fish Masala
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: Whole fish weighing 4 lb or 4 lb of fish steaks; 1½ tsp garam masala; 1 tsp turmeric; Juice of a big lime; 1 tsp cumin powder; 2 lb medium-sized potatoes; ¾ cup tomato purée; ½ cup oil; 1 tsp coriander powder; ¾ tsp chilli powder; 3 tsp crushed mixture of ginger and garlic

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

You can buy frozen tilapia in Indian grocery stores, but they are skinless fillets which cook too fast and break up, unless you can get hold of the fatter variety. Back in Mwanza they used to cook the whole fish taken fresh from the lake. Good substitutes are cod, halibut or coley steaks, or any whole fish which has firm flesh.

Ingredients

Whole fish weighing 4 lb or 4 lb of fish steaks

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preparation

If using a whole fish, get it scaled, then make three to four slashes on either side. You can take the head off, but I don’t. My ex-mother-in-law liked no other part of a fish better, and in her memory I always keep the heads on.
With fish steaks, wash and then sprinkle them with a little salt. Leave for an hour.</