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Choti Rani Recipe
How To Make Choti Rani
Whole fish in a yogurt and spice paste cooked twice in the tandoor or oven.
- Total Cook Time 40 mins
- Prep Time 10 mins
- Cook Time 30 mins
- Recipe Servings2
- Intermediate
Ingredients of Choti Rani
- 1 baby King fish
- 1 Tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- 4 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp red chilli
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1 Tbsp mustard oil
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- Salt to taste
- green coriander
- Ginger julienne
- Lemon slices - for garnishing
- For the Marinade:
- 1 cup hung yoghurt
- 1/2 Tbsp roasted gramflour and mustard oil paste
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 Tbsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 Tbsp roasted cumin powder
- 1 tsp green cardamon - ground
- 3 tsp lemon juice
- 3 Tbsp mustard oil
- Salt to taste
How to Make Choti Rani
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Wash the fish throughly and make slashes in the middle.
2.
Generously sprinkle ginger-garlic paste, followed by red chilli powder, salt, mustard oil and lemon juice. Keep aside.
3.
In a separate dish, mix yoghurt with gramflour paste.
4.
Add garam masala, red chilli powder, cumin powder, cardamom, lemon juice, mustard oil and salt.
5.
Apply this mixture to the fish and then roast it in a tandoor or a pre-heated oven for five minutes.
6.
Remove the fish from the tandoor and apply butter.
7.
Now put it in a skewer and hang for two minutes.
8.
Then put it back in tandoor for 2-3 more minutes.
9.
Serve garnished with green coriander, ginger juliennes and lemon slices.