Bengali Style Fish Fry

This one snack I can eat anytime. Battered fried fish. In Kolkata, you can find varieties of Fish Fry, marinated, battered or fried differently, with different names like fish fry, fish roll, fish batter fry, fish kabiraji, fish chop etc.. Even recipes of Fish Fry can vary from restaurant to restaurant. I have made Fish fry in different ways. Here is one of them. I will post some other fried fish recipes soon.

Ingredients:
For the marinade
2 Basa or Tilapia fillet, cut into thin slices, about 6 pieces
1/2 cup ginger-garlic paste 
4 green chilies
2 tsp mustard oil
1 egg
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ajinomoto
1 tsp black pepper powder

For making the fish fry and frying
Bread crumb and gram flour (or flour if gram flour isn't available) mixed in a 2:1 ratio, enough to coat all the fish pieces
Oil for deep frying

Recipe:

• Mix all the ingredients above and marinate the fish for at least 5/6 hours
• Add about 1 tsp corn flour to thicken the marinade
• Take the fish pieces out keeping as much marinade as possible
• Coat the fish in the bread crumb-flour mix
• Keep the coated fish pieces in the fridge for about 2 hours
• Take it out of the fridge about one hour before frying, so it comes to room temperature. That way you will have less crumbs in the oil while frying
• Deep fry the coated fish
• Serve with salad