Non-veg recipe · lunch, dinner, snack
Milk-Marinated Squid Fry
பால் கனவா மீன் (Paal Kanava Meen)
Serves 3 · 1 hr 50 min (incl. 1.5 hr marinating)
Adapted from பேலியோ ஆரோக்கிய சமையல் (Paleo Arokkiya Samaiyal) by Rtn Kannan Azhagirisamy, page 78
Squid rings soaked in salted milk, coated with a garlic-chilli, egg and kasuri methi mix and shallow-fried in ghee.
Estimated per serving from USDA FoodData Central and Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 values for the raw ingredients. Real numbers vary with brands and portions. Some ingredients here (such as game, organ meats or seafood not in the Indian food tables) use approximate USDA reference values.
Ingredients
- half a kilo squid (kanava), cleaned (கனவா மீன்)
- 1 cup milk (பால்)
- 2 green chillies
- a little dried kasuri methi (கசூரி மேத்தி)
- 1 egg
- 6 cloves garlic
- as needed rock salt
- as needed ghee
Method
- Cut the cleaned squid into rings and soak in milk with rock salt for an hour.
- Grind the green chillies and garlic to a paste.
- Mix the paste, kasuri methi, egg and salt into the squid and milk and rest another 30 minutes.
- Shallow-fry the squid with its coating in ghee until cooked.
Adapted from பேலியோ ஆரோக்கிய சமையல் (Paleo Arokkiya Samaiyal) by Rtn Kannan Azhagirisamy, page 78. Method rewritten in our own words; ingredient quantities follow the book, with gram weights estimated for the nutrition figures. The book thanks the Arokkiya Unavugal (Healthy Foods) Facebook group and tamilpaleorecipes.com.
Recipe credit: tamilpaleorecipes.com and Adapted from பேலியோ ஆரோக்கிய சமையல் (Paleo Arokkiya Samaiyal) by Rtn Kannan Azhagirisamy, page 78.