The Foodie Curls Indian Recipes: fish recipe

Basa is a bland fish and does not have any natural strong flavours in it. The sauce is the key to make this fish recipe a success. This garlic butter fish recipe takes 20 mins. Serve alone or with pasta or mashed potatoes for a wholesome dinner. I enjoyed my butter garlic basa along with mashed potatoes.I have written the recipe for mashed potatoes which you can find - here-. Me and my husband love fish and we enjoy all kinds of fish recipe like Mangalorean traditional Bangudepulimunchi recipe, Surmai curry recipe and Bombil fry fish recipe.

Garlic and butter are two magic ingredients that go well with any kind of protein, including fish recipes.

Basa Fish ingredients

1/2 kg Basa fish
2 tbsp Butter
2 tbsp Garlic
1/2 finely chopped onion
Pepper powder
Lemon
Salt

Garlic butter sauce

How to make garlic butter sauce for fish recipes? This magical sauce is very easy to make and calls for four simple

Ingredients:

Minced garlic
Melted butter
Lemon juice
Chopped parsley/ Coriander leaves

You can watch this recipe video on my YouTube Channel as well:

How to make Butter Garlic Basa fish

Step 1: Wash Fish

Rinse basa fillets under running water, and pat dry with kitchen paper

Step 2 : Marinate Basa

Marinate the fish fillet with salt and pepper. Keep it aside for atleast 30 minutes

Step 3 : Coat Basa

Coat Basa fish with 2 tbsp of Maida/ All purpose flour. This coating will make the fish crisp from outside

Step 4: Cooking

Heat a pan with 2 tbsp butter once the butter is melted at 1/2 medium sized finely chopped onion and 2 tbsp minced garlic. Sauté for 2 mins. To this place the marinated Basa fillet carefully. Flip it over after a minute or until light brown. Basa doesn’t take much time to cook. Finally once the fish is cooked add 2 tbsp of lemon juice over it. Keep the flame medium to low during entire cooking.

Step 5: Serve

Serve Basa fish with mashed potatoes or Pasta

Tip/ Notes

Basa also nice over salad greens or in a fish taco