Fish Pickle

 

Homemade pickles always taste scrumptious. Pickles remind us of vacations, hostels and many more nostalgic moments. Fish pickle is very easy to make and it's a great accompaniment for rice or bread.

Ingredients

• 1/2kg fish cut into small cubes (fleshy fish preferably)
• 2 heaped tablespoon kashmiri chilli powder
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 2 tablespoon each ginger and garlic finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
• 1 teaspoon mustards seeds
• 4 dry chillies
• 1/4 cup vinegar
• 3/4 to 1 cup water
• 2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• Curry leaves
• Sunflower oil or gingely oil

Cut the fish into small cubes. Clean and let the water be drained completely from fish. Add 1 teaspoon chilli powder, 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt to this. Let this marinate for 15 minutes.

In a heavy bottom pan add around 5 tablespoon oil and deep fry the fish .

 

Remove the fried fish from oil. Add mustard, fenugreek, dry chilles, and curry leaves. Let it splutter, after that add chopped ginger and garlic. Saute this till the ginger and garlic are cooked properly and the raw taste is gone.

Now add  chilli powder and fried fish. Mix it thoroughly. Finally add vinegar, salt, water and sugar. Once everything is combined switch off the flame.

 

Do Note

 

The amount of water to be added depends on how much gravy you need in pickle .  Fish will soak the gravy, so during cooking i added 3/4 cup water. Later the pickle became little dry so added 1/4 cup water to make it little loose. Chilli powder used in this recipe is kashmiri chilli powder which is less in heat and more in colour. If normal chilli powder is used reduce the amount according to one's spice level.