Tandoori Pomfret

This is one of my favorite recipe and I am sure that you will love this. You can have it with steam rice or just with salad. So lets start making Tandoori Pomfret.

Ingredients:

• 2 Pomfret fish
• 2 tablespoon yogurt(tok doi)
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
• 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
• 1/4th teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon carom seed powder(joan guro)(blend carom seed in a mixer to get the powdered form)
• 1/2 teaspoon chat masala
• 2 tablespoon oil
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder
• salt as per taste
• a pinch of red food color

Procedure:

• Its very important to clean the fish for this preparation.Remove all the fin and its mouth excluding caudal fin(lej). Cut the fish diagonally from its mouth so that you can clean it from there then give three slits on each side.Please refer the below images for that.

• Take a bowl , add 1 tablespoon lemon juice,1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder and mix it really well.Now rub this mixture on the body of the fish very well specially on the slits and cuts.Now let it rest for 10mins.
• Take another air tight bowl ,add yogurt and all the spices except chat masala.Add a tablespoon of lemon juice and salt in it and mix it really well.While adding salt please remember that you have already added salt to the fish and this salt is only for the mixture.So please be careful about the amount of salt in the mixture.
• Rub the mixture really well in the fish and add a tablespoon of oil from the top.Cover the lid of the bowl,put it in the fridge and marinate it for about 4-5hours.

• Preheat your oven at 350degree Fahrenheit or 180degree Celsius and bake it for 5-6min.
• After that take it out from the oven,turn the fish on the other side,add some oil from the top and again bake it for another 5-6min.
• After that this delicious , mouthwatering recipe will be ready to serve. Sprinkle some chat masala from top and serve it with onion and lemon and enjoy it all alone or with steam rice. 

This recipe is specially for SumanDa who requested this,so a big thank you to SumanDa, and for all of my readers, I hope that you will also like this preparation and will definitely try this out in this weekend itself.