Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sardine/mathi fry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hello friends Today we are going to make Mathi Fish (Sardine ) Fry Kerala Style. Its very easy and Tasty too. perfect side dish for Rice. Sardine fry or Mathi Fry or chala fry is a crispy, flavorful starter or a side dish for hot rice.

Sardine/mathi fry is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Sardine/mathi fry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sardine/mathi fry using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sardine/mathi fry:

1. Take 5 sardine -
2. Get 2 tsps pepper powder -
3. Make ready 1 tbsp chilly powder -
4. Prepare as required salt -
5. Make ready to fry oil
6. Take curry leaves

We especially adore Mathi-Chaala Varuthathu -Sardines Fry. Fry it until both sides are brown and crispy or your desired texture. (Some people like deep fried mathi/sardine fries and some like shallow fried). Sardines or Mathi is usually used to fry and curry. It is also called Chaala Varuthathu and is a Mathi / Chaala contains lots of vitamins and calcium.

Steps to make Sardine/mathi fry:

1. First clean the sardine well cutting its head and tail. Remove the scales. Pull out the thread and a sac like stuff from inside using your fingures. Rinse well in water. Wash it nicely using salt 2 - 3 times.
2. After cleaning the fish make 3-4 slits on both side of the fish. Then marinate it using chilly powder, pepper powder and salt. coat the fish properly on each side.
3. Keep the fish marinated for 1-2 hours. Then put some oil in a pan, to shallow fry the fish. When the oil is hot, add few springs of curry leaves on it. Then put the fish above this curry leaves and cook. Flip the fish pieces carefully after 6-8 minutes until it is cooked properly on both sides.

Sardines are high in Omega fatty acids which controls. Frankly speaking I could never get a perfect recipe for frying sardine fish. And also the fish is fried in a bed of curry leaves, which prevents it from sticking as well as absorbs the flavour from the curry. - Recipe Main Dish : Sardine fry - nethali meen varuval - mathi by Sameena. Sardines or Mathi or Chaala as we call are hugely available in Tamil Nadu's coastal areas and it is the fish kind that I have devoured very often right from my childhood. Sardines are very hard to supply to towns that are far from the main coasts which is one of the big reasons why you don't seem them in the local market very often.

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