This fish rice tastes delicious and can be served with a vegetable salad or just onion, cucumber and carrot slices. I made this with half a kg of fish pieces and 2 cups of rice. I have halved the recipe here. You may also like this collection of fish recipes. To begin with the recipe, I just precooked the rice in a pressure cooker and cooled it down. This is similar to any fried rice but with a desi Indian touch using Indian spices and herbs. The dish turns out to be super flavorful and delicious due to the combination of ingredients used like ghee, curry leaves etc. If you do not have ghee then just replace with any oil or even butter.

How to Make Fish Rice (Stepwise photos)

Preparation

  1. Wash, soak and cook rice in whatever way you like. You can use any kind of rice. I have used basmathi since it adds a little more flavor to the dish. Make sure the rice is cooked to al dente (not mushy) and is cooled down.
  2. While the rice cooks, go ahead making the fish. Wash fish and drain completely. Add red chilli powder, turmeric, salt, ginger garlic paste, lemon juice and garam masala. Set aside for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile slice onion, green chili and set aside.

Pan Fry Fish

  1. Add ghee to a hot pan as needed. Ghee lends a very good flavor. Add garlic and saute until nice aroma comes out. Add fish, curry leaves and begin to fry on a medium flame. Flip the fish after 3 to 4 mins and add more red chili powder if needed.
  2. When the fish is cooked completely. Set this aside to a plate.
  3. To the same pan, add sliced onions, slit green chili and begin to saute. If needed add more oil or ghee. Do not skip green chili other wise the rice will taste bland.
  4. When the onions turns golden, add curry leaves, cashews and raisins. These are optional but I suggest adding at least few chopped cashews else the rice will be plain.
  5. Saute everything well until the nuts turn golden.

Make Fish Rice

  1. Add cooled rice, pepper and salt. Switch off the stove.
  2. Mix everything well. Serve hot rice with roasted fish & onion cucumber carrot slices. Related Recipes

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