Anchovies are always my favorite, either as fresh fish or in dried form. Curd rice or Rasam rice with this spicy anchovies / Nethili Karuvadu fry is a great combo. It is a super-easy recipe and can be prepared in just 10 – 15 minutes. Adding fresh curry leaves gives extra flavor to this anchovy fry. These dried anchovies can also be used to prepare kuzhambu or anchovies thokku. Everything tastes great.
Incredients
Dry nethili fish – 200 gm
Chilli powder – 2 tsp
Coriander powder – 2 tsp
Turmeric powder – 2 tsp
Curry leaves
Oil for frying
Salt for taste
Steps
1. Wash dry fish thoroughly about 8 to 10 times. So that soil from fish and head part will be removed properly. Having head part is absolutely good. But somebody do not like. Today I am cooking with head.
2. Add chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and enough salt with fish and keep aside for 20 to 25 minutes.
3. Fry these fish mix in the oil well batch by batch.
4. At last batch, fry curry leaves and put all the fish fries together and mix well.
5. Now Nethili dry fish is ready.
These Nethili fry is very good with water rice, rasam rice, curd rice. We could have this fries as snack as well. Try this recipe and post your comments and suggestions below.