Recheado Fish Fry

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Yatra: A culinary journey across India

By Rohit Ghai

Published 2025

  • About

This quick and easy recipe for stuffed fried fish is very popular in Goa. Recheado means ‘stuffed’ and the traditional reacheado masala is used not only for fish, but also for prawns/shrimp, other meat and vegetables. Here, we are not stuffing whole fish, but rather using the traditional masala paste to marinate fish fillets. The masala itself is bright red from the large number of red chillies, which makes it look fiery, but their heat is tempered by soaking in vinegar so it