Bangalore-based Dipanwita Kundu shares a quick and easy snack recipe. You can share your recipes too!
Enjoy your evening tea with crispy fish starters and tartar dip.
Here's the recipe:
Fish Fingers with Tartar Sauce
Ingredients
For fish fingers
- 300 gm Basa fish fillets (you can use any other boneless and filleted fish)
- 1 medium size onion
- 6 to 7 garlic cloves
- Small piece of ginger
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp American mustard sauce
- 2 tbsp maida
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp crushed or powdered black pepper
- Salt to taste
- Sunflower oil for deep frying
- Breadcrumbs
For tartar sauce
- Mayonnaise
- Juice of half a lemon
- Fresh or dried parsley
- Salt to taste
- Pinch of crushed or powdered black pepper
- 1 small onion, chopped
Method
For tartar sauce
- Take all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
For fish finger
- Cut the fish fillets into strips and marinate with salt, lemon juice, black pepper and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
- Make a smooth batter of mustard sauce, paste of (onion, garlic, ginger), salt, pepper, egg and mix well. Coat fish pieces well.
- Coat the fish pieces with breadcrumbs.
- Heat oil. Fry the coated pieces on a medium flame so that it cooks well from the inside.
- Serve hot with tartar sauce or any other choice of sauce.
Note: Instead of paste you can use finely chopped (onion, garlic, ginger) for the batter.
Photograph: Dipanwita Kundu
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