Recipe: Fish Fingers with Tartar Sauce

Bangalore-based Dipanwita Kundu shares a quick and easy snack recipe. You can share your recipes too!

Enjoy your evening tea with crispy fish starters and tartar dip.

Here's the recipe:

Fish Fingers with Tartar Sauce

Ingredients

For fish fingers

• 300 gm Basa fish fillets (you can use any other boneless and filleted fish)
• 1 medium size onion
• 6 to 7 garlic cloves
• Small piece of ginger
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp American mustard sauce
• 2 tbsp maida
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp crushed or powdered black pepper
• Salt to taste
• Sunflower oil for deep frying
• Breadcrumbs

For tartar sauce

• Mayonnaise
• Juice of half a lemon
• Fresh or dried parsley
• Salt to taste
• Pinch of crushed or powdered black pepper
• 1 small onion, chopped

Method

For tartar sauce

• Take all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

For fish finger

• Cut the fish fillets into strips and marinate with salt, lemon juice, black pepper and keep it ­aside for 10 minutes.
• Make a smooth batter of mustard sauce, paste of (onion, garlic, ginger), salt, pepper, egg and mix well. Coat fish pieces well.
• Coat the fish pieces with breadcrumbs.
• Heat oil. Fry the coated pieces on a medium flame so that it cooks well from the inside.
• Serve hot with tartar sauce or any other choice of sauce.

Note: Instead of paste you can use finely chopped (onion, garlic, ginger) for the batter.

Photograph: Dipanwita Kundu

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