Here is a delicious, savory way to cook fish by our favorite chef Shabana Akbany – Pickled Fish
Ingredients:
- Fish fillets 1/2 kg – marinated with salt and white pepper.
- Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp
- Garlic paste 1/2 tsp
- Lemon juice 1 tbsp
- Mango Pickle 1 tbsp heaped
- Sweet Mango Chutney 1 tbsp heaped
- Fenugreek seeds 1 tsp
- Zeera seeds 1 tsp
- Kalonji seeds 1 tsp
- Butter 2 tbsp {to pan fry the fish}
- Cabbage 1/2 cup finely sliced
- Carrot 1 finely sliced
Boil the cabbage and carrot in 1 cup water and keep aside .
Method :
- Pan fry the marinated fish for about 5 to 7 minutes till slightly brown on both sides.
- Heat 1 tbsp of butter.
- Add in garlic paste. Fry till oil separates
- Add all the other spices
- Put in the boiled vegetables
- Sweet chutney and the mango pickle.
- Mix well. Add in the lemon juice.
- Stir well till fish is well done.
TO SERVE
- In a serving plate put salad leaves on one corner
- Place the fish in the middle of the plate
- And pour the vegetable mixture on top of the fish. Spread the vegetables and mix well on the fish.
- Put a spring of parsley in the center with a twisted slice of lemon on top.
- Your pickled fish is ready to eat.
by Shabana Akbany
