Red Snapper Fry. Fried Red Snapper.

When I did my Masters in Aqua Culture….I had an wonderful experience with this ‘Red Snapper’. For a brief period I practically hated this fish! Coz….you know,I had a very strict prof’ for Fishery Biology. In 5 days a weak….we will be having 2 practicals for Fisheries Biology alone….and other 2 days will be occupied with other practicals(biochemistry…genetics, biotech….what not) The seriousness about these practicals are….it runs for about 3-6 hours a day. One is supposed to Identify the fish, do other specimen research(like food analysis, nervous system….gill system….etc). To tell you simply ‘Identifying Fish itself will consume lot of time….there are 25000 fish in the world. And one could not practically say which species it belong to, by mere looking at it! The worst part is….she was so damn strict…that we have to finish even the record all within the same practical period. Of course she is correct…practicals is what we observe that day and record it right. She made it clear…that we need to record very same day.

So for final exam practicals….I got this ‘Red Snapper’. The question was ‘Food Analysis’. I dint know whether my fish was in starvation or what, its stomach was damn empty. I got really scared for a while…how i am going to do this without anything to analyse. Later I thought…let me write what ever I observe,that is practicals. I wrote like this ‘ the fish has protrusible mouth, so it could be a a predator type…grasping it food, its gills had denticles and it would have had hard meals…as rackers helped crushing them…like it could be surface a feeder and so on, all without analysing food…but examining its others morphic features. So I was so tensed until the result came….to my surprise someone really had appreciated my inference, as it was honest, I got 78/80.(as you know 20 marks goes to records)

Ingredients:

Red Snappers 4-6
Salt
Chili powder
Tamarind paste 1/2 spoon
Coriander seeds powder 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds powder 1/2 spoon
Cinnamon powder 1 pinch
Turmeric pwoder 1/4 spoons
Fennel seeds powder 1/4 spoon
Corn meal/bread crumbs few spoons.

Method:

Mix all the above said ingredients together(except oil, fish and corn meal).

Now bast this paste over cleaned fish. Let this sit for a while.

Heat up a skillet, add oil and bring this to smoky hot.

Now roll the fish in corn meal/bread crumbs. And braise them in hot oil

Serve warm to go with your South Indian Meals.
Oil for braising.