Pan-Fried Tomato Fish Curry

Pan-Fried Tomato Fish Curry

Made With Our Classic Butter Chicken
2 SERVES
SERVES 4
prep
15 MINS PREP
20 MINS COOK
10 MINS COOK
Indian food is so varied and delicious and this easy fish curry showcases one of India’s favourites. Serve it with rice. Perfect for when you have guests over!
Anjum Signature

Tailored to Taste
India has so many delicious fish curries. Many of them pan fry the fish first before slipping them into the bubbling curry. This version is a new take on a North Indian fish curry where the fish is marinated and then coated in gram flour, before pan-frying to a lovely crisp exterior. This all helps keep the fish together and keeps the fish really juicy. You can coat with cornflour if you don’t have gram flour, but it won’t be as tasty. Serve with rice.
Ingredients
  • 1 pack of The Spice Tailor Classic Butter Chicken
  • 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
  • 2 packets Icelandic cod loin - or 4 pieces of cod loin or other white firm fish
  • 6 tbsp. gram flour (chickpea flour)
  • Seasoning
  • ½ lemon
  • Fresh chopped coriander to serve

Marinade

  • 1 1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 tsp. garlic paste
  • 1/3 tsp. turmeric powder
  • Good sprinkle of chilli powder - or to taste
  • 1/3 tsp. cumin powder
  • 1/3 tsp. carom seeds (optional if you have it)
Method
  1. Mix the lemon juice with the spices for the marinade. Cut the cod into 3 even pieces. Season them really well and place into the marinade. Mix well to get a good coating. Set aside for 15 minutes.
  2. Place the gram flour on a plate, place the fish in and coat well on all 4 sides. Pat off any extra.
  3. Heat a large non-stick frying pan with the oil. Turn the heat down to medium. Add the fish and fry until crisp and golden on all sides - about 1 minutes on each side. Carefully set aside on a plate.
  4. Add the spices from the sachet in the kit into the pan. After 5 seconds, add both sauces from the two sachets in the kit, along with a good splash of water, so the sauce is lightly creamy. Bring to a simmer.
  5. Carefully add the fish back in and simmer over a gentle heat until the fish is cooked through - another 5-6 minutes or so. If the sauce is looking thick, gently stir in an extra splash of water. Squeeze over lemon juice, serve hot with rice and garnish with the coriander.
Tailored to Taste
India has so many delicious fish curries. Many of them pan fry the fish first before slipping them into the bubbling curry. This version is a new take on a North Indian fish curry where the fish is marinated and then coated in gram flour, before pan-frying to a lovely crisp exterior. This all helps keep the fish together and keeps the fish really juicy. You can coat with cornflour if you don’t have gram flour, but it won’t be as tasty. Serve with rice.
  • 1 pack of The Spice Tailor Classic Butter Chicken
  • 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
  • 2 packets Icelandic cod loin - or 4 pieces of cod loin or other white firm fish
  • 6 tbsp. gram flour (chickpea flour)
  • Seasoning
  • ½ lemon
  • Fresh chopped coriander to serve

Marinade

  • 1 1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 tsp. garlic paste
  • 1/3 tsp. turmeric powder
  • Good sprinkle of chilli powder - or to taste
  • 1/3 tsp. cumin powder
  • 1/3 tsp. carom seeds (optional if you have it)
  1. Mix the lemon juice with the spices for the marinade. Cut the cod into 3 even pieces. Season them really well and place into the marinade. Mix well to get a good coating. Set aside for 15 minutes.
  2. Place the gram flour on a plate, place the fish in and coat well on all 4 sides. Pat off any extra.
  3. Heat a large non-stick frying pan with the oil. Turn the heat down to medium. Add the fish and fry until crisp and golden on all sides - about 1 minutes on each side. Carefully set aside on a plate.
  4. Add the spices from the sachet in the kit into the pan. After 5 seconds, add both sauces from the two sachets in the kit, along with a good splash of water, so the sauce is lightly creamy. Bring to a simmer.
  5. Carefully add the fish back in and simmer over a gentle heat until the fish is cooked through - another 5-6 minutes or so. If the sauce is looking thick, gently stir in an extra splash of water. Squeeze over lemon juice, serve hot with rice and garnish with the coriander.
MADE WITH OUR DELICIOUS
Classic Butter Chicken

Where the tikka masala is the favourite British curry, Butter Chicken is the Maharaja of curries in India and features at restaurants, weddings and everywhere in between! The intense flavours of slow-cooked sweet and tangy tomatoes, garlic, ginger, yoghurt, cream and spices come together to make a heady harmony of flavours that are actually addictive. Once you start, you can’t stop especially when served with delicious hot The Spice Tailor naans!

Although our sauce is called Classic Butter “Chicken”, it is actually vegetarian and very versatile. This sauce goes so well with almost everything and definitely anything that works with tomatoes.

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