Description
This Delicious Pickled Fish is perfect for those who love a tangy twist. Made with fresh fish and marinated in a blend of spices, this pickled fish is a taste sensation you should not miss.
Ingredients
Units
Scale
Fish
- 2 kg of Hake Fish
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- flour
- cooking oil
Curry sauce for pickled fish
- 4 – 6 Onions, cut into rings
- 375 ml (1 1/2 cups) Sugar
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) Curry
- 15 ml (1 tbsp) Turmeric
- 10 ml (2 tsp) table salt
- 2.5 ml (1/2 tsp) Coriander Seeds
- 8 star Anise Seeds
- 2 pieces of Cassia/Cinnamon Stick
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) Green Ginger, pounded
- 750 ml (3 cups) Brown Grape Vinegar
- 250 ml (1 cup) Apple Cider Vinegar or wine vinegar
- 250 ml (1 cup) water (optional) mixed with 1 tbsp Corn Flour (optional)
- 5 fresh lemon or Bay Leaves
Instructions
Fish
- You can’t make pickled fish just like that, because if your curry sauce is too sweet, sour, or hot, the whole dish is spoiled and all the effort is wasted.
- It is better to use firm fish if it is stored in glass jars for a long time because it does not break easily. Use Cod, Garrick, Cape Salmon, or Yellowtail.
- If the fish is going to be stored in the fridge and will be eaten soon, you can put Hake in cheaper.
- Cook the fish first.
- Cut the fish into motes and salt and pepper it.
- Lightly sprinkle with flour or roll in flour and shake off the excess flour.
- Unpack on a plate in the fridge and let it rest for half an hour.
- Heat a little cooking oil in the pan, about 3 cm deep.
- Once the oil starts to stir, it’s ready. If it smokes, it’s too hot.
- Bake the fish motes, but don’t put too many in the pan at once, then they will absorb water.
- Bake the skin side down first and then turn it over.
- That way the fish motes will not warp.
- Scoop out, keep it on the spatula so it can drain the oil, blot it on kitchen paper, and then leave it in a large dish to cool.
- Pack only one layer, so that the fish does not absorb water.
Curry sauce for pickled fish
- Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook for 20 minutes.
- Pack layers of fish and onions in a wide-mouth jar and pour the curry sauce hot over it, spices, and all.
- Let it cool well and seal. First, cover the jar with plastic wrap to prevent the vinegar from rusting the metal lid.
- The pickled fish will be ready to eat within three days, but it will keep for months.
- Bottle at 20 minutes
Notes
Created, Prepared, tried, and tested by Edward from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs and SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutritional calculation reflected for all as not possible to work out per serving.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4 bottles
- Calories: 5095
- Sugar: 454.1 g
- Sodium: 8281.3 mg
- Fat: 122 g
- Saturated Fat: 19.1 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 554.2 g
- Fiber: 34.6 g
- Protein: 400.8 g
- Cholesterol: 1200 mg