Fried Pomfret with Fish Sauce:(Thai Style)

Pomfret Fry. Crisply Fried Pomfret – with Fish Sauce. Fried Pomfret – Thai Style. Vavva Meen Varuval. Wavva Meen Varuval. Chapalu Fry. Fried Machi. Machili Fry.

This is one of my favorite Recipe from Thai Kitchen. Generally I like ‘Thai Recipe’ much than any other Asian Cuisine. Maybe I could find some real hot and spicier food there. Actually its much similar to Indian recipe here. Where in Indian we mix all these ingredients straight with the fish and deep fry it. While in ‘Thai Recipe’ they fry only the fish….yeah ‘plain fish’ and prepare separately a sauce and run over their fried fish. Is it interesting! And so does the taste too! Give a try today….you may love it.

Ingredients:

Whole Fresh Firm Pomfret fish – 2
Oil for frying.

Fish Sauce:

Salt
Onion 1 small – thinly sliced into circles
Fresh Red Chilies – 2 finely chopped into rings
Fresh Green Chilies – 2 finely chopped into rings
Fish Sauce – 1 cup
Lime – cut into wedges.

Variation: Whenever I couldn’t find ‘fish sauce….I managed with ‘thin soy sauce’.

Method:

Frying Fish:

Wash and clean pomfret. Remove its gut and scales. Well retain its fins for this recipe. If you find it hard….right go ahead and remove its fins too.

Heat oil in shallow wok. When the oil is hot enough….maintain the stove over low-medium heat. Now fry fish in it. When the fish is almost crispier to one side, turn carefully to other side and fry till crispier. Do not turn them often. As the fish will become flaky soon.

Now set this fish on your display plate.

Meanwhile when fish is getting done….prepare the sauce.

Fish Sauce:

In fish sauce or soy sauce add all the above mentioned ingredients except lemon wedges.

Display:

In a display plate….place a lettuce leaf and place your fried fish on the top. Then run this sauce above it. Just run only few spoons. Serve the remaining sauce in a cup, along with it. Decorate the plate with lemon wedges.