Kerala style coconut sardine fry

Ingredients

• Sardine fish – 1 kg
• Shallots – 7 or 8 nos
• Garlic – 4 or 5 nos
• Curry leaves – 4 or 5 sprigs
• Grated coconut – 1 cup
• green chilli- 4 nos
• Ginger – 1 nos
• Fennel seed – 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Salt – 1 or 2 tsp
• Oil – 5 or 6 tbsp

Method

• Wash and cleaned the sardine fish ,drain and keep a side.
• Then grind greenchilli, ginger and fennel seed into fine paste.
• Again add grated coconut, red chilli powder ,turmeric powder,shallots, and garlic into fine paste and
  set aside.
• Then marinated the cleaned fish and salt with grinded masala and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan ,add marinated fish and fry till they become crisp .
• Drain and keep aside.
• Again we used same pan for frying the marinated grated masala .
• Add some curry leaves andsaute them well.
• Then add fried sardine fish and mix with masala.
• Remove from fire and set aside.
• Serve and enjoy the kerala style coconut sardinefry with meals