Air Fryer Whole Pomfret Fish In Cafreal Masala#Improv

I love baking/grilling the fish in the air fryer, for two reasons, one that the house does not smell of fish and the next you need not give attention to it. Place it in the air fryer basket and set the timer.. that's it. The fish got so nicely golden and was still juicy and delicious. Do try this adjust the spice level according to your taste. I love this spicy, the cafreal masala is so delicious, if you have this with steamed rice it will not be spicy, so do try this.

Ingredients
For One Medium Pomfret
4 Green Chillies
1 Bunch Coriander leaves
2" Piece Ginger
6 Cloves Garlic
½ Teaspoon Poppy Seeds
6 Whole Black Peppercorns
1 Small Piece Cinnamon
½ Teaspoon Heaped Cumin Seeds
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric powder
5 Cloves
2 Cardamons
1 Tablespoon Heaped Tamarind juice or Vinegar
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil
Salt to Taste

Method 

Grind all the ingredients to a fine paste. Add salt, taste for sourness add tamarind paste according and give it a pulse.  

Next, apply 2 tablespoons of the ground masala to the fish. Rub it in well. Leave to marinate 10 - 15 minutes.

Preheat the air fryer , 180°C, for 5 minutes. Brush the basket with oil and place the fish, set the timer for 5 minutes. 

Flip the fish and again set the timer for 5 minutes. It's ready!!

For the Sauce Coating

Heat oil in a frying pan add the remaining ground paste and wash the blender jar with ½ cup water, add that water too and fry till oil starts to leave the sides, add the fish gently to this masala and coat it well. 

The gravy should be nice and thick and coating the fish, but you can adjust to your preference. 

Serve it our a bed of steamed rice , cauliflower or enjoy it chapatti.
Enjoyed this with cauliflower rice, I added ¼ cup water to pan and a little of the cafreal paste saute the cauliflower rice and enjoyed with the fish. This was super delicious.

My Notes

I have not calculated the carb count for this. If you are very particular then check the carb count and accordingly enjoy this recipe. The carb count is only on the spices.

Labels: Keto, Low Carb, Fish, Improv Cooking Challenge, Air Fryer, Goan

Air Fryer Radishes from A Day in the Life on the Farm 

Air Fryer Roasted Chickpeas#SundayFunday

This is a quick method for making Crispy Roasted Chickpeas. So easy, healthy, delicious, crunchy, guilt free and tasty snack for sure! Roasted Chickpeas are quite an addictive snack. Cooked Chickpeas are coated with spices/oil and then air fried to perfection until crispy and well browned. Adjust the seasonings according to your taste.

Ingredients
1½ Cup Cooked Chickpeas
1 Teaspoon Olive Oil
¼ Teaspoon Ground Turmeric
½ Teaspoon Cumin Powder
½ Teaspoon Smoked Paprika
½ Teaspoon Garlic Powder
½ Tsp Red Chilly Powder
½ Teaspoon Salt or to taste

Method

Spread the cooked chickpeas on a kitchen towel and pat them dry.
Place the seasoning ingredients in a bowl and stir to combine.
Add the chickpeas and marinate well in the spices.
Arrange the chickpeas in a single layer in the air fryer basket.
Air fry them at 200°C for 10 minutes. After 5 minutes, give it good shake / toss them well.

Check after 10 minutes, if not as crispy as you want then cook for another 3 minutes or more until you have the desired crispiness.
Once they cool down, store the roasted chickpeas in airtight jar.

Labels: Appetizer, Snack, Air Fryer, Vegan, Gluten free, Chickpeas, Sunday Funday

Sunday Funday Theme " Chickpeas"

Sneha’s Recipe: Air Fryer Roasted Chickpeas 

A Day in the Life on the Farm: Chickpea and Farro Soup 

Mayuri's Jikoni: Chole Bhature 

Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Greek Seasoned Roasted Chickpeas 

Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Pearl Couscous & Chickpea Salad with Basil 

Food Lust People Love: Roasted Salmon with Crispy Chickpea Salsa 

Palatable Pastime: Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

Air Fryer Parceled Fish With Green Tahini Chutney#FishFriday

This parceled fish is is super simple and flavorful to make, using this Green Tahini Chutney really elevates this dish.

Ingredients  
Grind To A Fine Paste
1 Tablespoon Tahini Paste 
½ Cup Coriander Leaves With Tender Stems 
½ Teaspoon Cumin Seeds  
Salt to taste  
2 Green Chillies or according to spice level
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice 
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil 
2 Cloves Garlic - chopped 
1 Scallion / Spring Onion - chopped 
Other Ingredients 
250 - 300 Grams Thick Slice Fish Fillet 
Aluminum Foil  
Sliced Tomato & Cucumber - for serving  

Method

Grind all the given ingredients to a paste without adding any water.  

Our Green Tahini Chutney is ready.

Wash the fish well. Apply little salt and keep aside for 5 minutes. Wash the fish in fresh water and pat it dry. Apply this paste to the fish and let it marinate for at least 15 to 20 minutes. Wrap it in a foil. Bake it in a preheated air fryer for 10 - 12 minutes at 200°C .

Serve warm with salad. 
Labels: Tahini, Green Chutney, Middle Eastern, Air Fryer, Seafood/Fish, Fish Friday, Healthy, Main course, Serves One

Are you a food blogger who would you like to join Fish Friday Foodies? We post and share new seafood/fish recipes on the third Friday of the month. To join our group please email Wendy at wendyklik1517 (at) gmail.com. Visit our Facebook page and Pinterest page for more wonderful fish and seafood recipe ideas.    

• Palatable Pastime: Grilled Shrimp Boil (in foil packets)
• Food Lust People Love: Spicy Honey Baked Steelhead Trout
• A Day in the Life on the Farm: Alaskan Rockfish Packages
• Sneha’s Recipe: Air Fryer Parceled Fish With Green Tahini Chutney 
• Karen's Kitchen Stories: Fish Foil Packets with Cod, Chipotles, Black Beans, and Corn  

Han’s “Dice”-d Potatoes - Recipe Inspired by : A Star Wars Story#Foodieextravaganza

Han’s “Dice”-d Potatoes were inspired by Han’s lucky dice. Not only are they themed but they are also an easy, delicious, a healthier replacement for traditional French fries and the best part it that these are not fried at all! These can be perfectly paired with Millennium Falcon Burgers!

Han's later while escaping his home world of Corellia, gave the pair of dice to Qi'ra as a symbol of good luck, only for her to be captured by Moloch, taking the pair of dice with her.

Ingredients
2 Medium Potatoes - cut into large cubes/ diced
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
½ Teaspoon Homemade Garlic Salt
1/8 Teaspoon Onion Powder
1/8 Teaspoon Paprika Powder
½ Teaspoon Black Pepper Powder 
½ Teaspoon Sugar  
Method 

Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil with ½ teaspoon salt .
Add diced potato cubes.
Cook for until just fork tender. (Do not overcook them)
Drain and allow to cool slightly.
In a large bowl, add potatoes, oil, and rest of the seasonings, toss them well to coat in the seasonings.
Spray a air fryer grill basket with cooking spray.
Add potatoes to grill basket.

Cook at 200°C for 10 - 12 minutes. Then , shake the basket to , tossing occasionally so they don’t burn after every 5 minutes. 

Let them continue to cook until golden brown and crispy.

Taste for salt, sprinkle a dash if necessary, on the potatoes and serve with Millennium Falcon Burgers.

Labels: Foodie Extravaganza Party, Potato, Side Dish, Air Fryer, Homemade, Garlic Salt

Foodie Extravaganza is where we celebrate obscure food holidays or cook and bake together with the same ingredient or theme each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog with us, come join our Facebook page Foodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board.

Posting day for #FoodieExtravaganza is always the first Wednesday of the month.    

• Baked Lightsaber Churros by The Spiffy Cookie
• Blue Milk Cocktail by A Day in the Life on the Farm
  
• Galaxy’s Edge Inspired Blue Milk by Tara’s Multicultural Table
• Han’s “Dice”-d Potatoes by Sneha’s Recipe
  
• Homemade Cheese Cracker TIE Fighters by Food Lust People Love
• Millennium Falcon Peanut Butter Cups by Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Air Fryer Pasta Chips#MultiCookerMonday

This is another TikTok sensation made with cooked pasta that’s tossed with olive oil, parmesan cheese, spices, that are then air fried until crispy! They come out so crunchy, perfect for dipping with your favorite sauce for a fun appetizer!

These air fryer pasta chips don’t need a lot of oil. A teaspoon or up to 1 tablespoon is plenty and will make them perfectly crispy! Air Fry the pasta in batches. Depending on the size of the air fryer basket, you may need to separate the pasta into batches to avoid overcrowding, which can affect the results.
Shake the air fryer basket a few times. While cooking the pasta chips, make sure to shake the basket to allow all the surface areas to get crispy. Made this for my hubby's birthday to serve as a starter.

Ingredients
200 Grams Penne Pasta
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
½ Teaspoon All Purpose Seasoning
Sea Salt
Hot Sauce as required

Method

Bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a boil. Cook pasta al dente according to package directions and drain.

Toss the hot pasta with olive oil, hot sauce, all purpose seasoning, salt and pepper.

Arrange a single layer in the air fryer basket and Air fryer them in a preheated air fryer at 200°C for 15 minutes, tossing a couple times.

Serve the pasta chips with a dip of your choice.
Labels: Pasta & Noodles, Air Fryer, Starters, Appetizer, Multi Cooker Monday, Vegan

Multicooker Monday - October 2021

Air Fryer Pasta Chips from Sneha’s Recipe
Birria Quesatacos (Instant Pot) from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
Black Eyed Peas and Okra (Instant Pot) from Palatable Pastime
Instant Pot Dal Dhokli from Magical Ingredients
Pork and Cabbage Starting with Leftovers (slow cooker) from A Day in the Life on the Farm

Air Fryer Whole Mackerel Fish Roast#FishFriday

This is recipe is a Kerala delectable mackerel fish roast in banana leaf wrap . It's spicy but delicious and it pairs best with hot steamed rice. This fish recipe is popularly known as fish pollichath.

Ingredients
1 Whole Mackerel - make slits
Coconut oil or Vegetable oil as required
Banana leaf's as required
For Fish Marination
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric powder - quarter tsp
½ Teaspoon Chili powder - half tsp
1 Teaspoon Vinegar / Lemon juice
¼ Teaspoon Level Sea Salt
For The Masala
1 Large Tomato - sliced
1 Teaspoon Garlic - mashed
1 Teaspoon Kashmir Chilly powder
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric powder
¼ Teaspoon Salt
¼ Teaspoon Garam Masala powder
Other Ingredients
3 - 4 Kaffir Lime Leaves
1 Lemon - cut into thin slices

Method

Clean and wash the fish well , then pat dry it well. Give slits in fish and marinate the fish with all the ingredients given under 'for fish marination'. Keep refrigerated for 1 hour (do not skip this).
Meanwhile let's make the masala
Heat a kadai with a tablespoon oil. Add the tomato slices, salt and sauté well. Cover and cook over a medium flame until mushy. Add mashed garlic and stir well until raw smell of garlic disappears. Then add chilly, garam masala powder and turmeric powder. Combine well. To this add half a cup of water and let it cook until oil separates. Switch off the flame.

Heat oil in a pan for shallow frying. Fry the marinated fish until both sides for a minute on each side. Be careful, do not fry the fish until crispy. Transfer to a plate.
Now take a banana leaf and slightly heat the banana leaf. This helps to fold the leaf without breaking.

Take the leaf place half of the tomato masala on the leaf , then lemon slices, chiffonades of karffir lime leaves Now place the half fried fish.

Top the remaining tomato roast masala over the fish again lemon slices and chiffonade of karffir lime leaves.

Fold the banana leaf and seal it folds with tooth picks.
Preheat the air fryer at 180°C for 5 minutes. 

Place this in the basket of the air fryer and set the timer to 10 minutes.

Ta da.. air fryer healthy whole mackerel fish is ready to be enjoyed.

When done, serve hot with the leaf.

Enjoy with hot steamed rice.
Labels: Mackerel, Whole Mackerel, Kerala, Air Fryer, Banana Leaf, Spicy, Main course, Seafood/Fish, Fish Friday

Are you a food blogger who would you like to join Fish Friday Foodies? We post and share new seafood/fish recipes on the third Friday of the month. To join our group please email Wendy at wendyklik1517 (at) gmail.com. Visit our Facebook page and Pinterest page for more wonderful fish and seafood. Theme for this month - let's share some recipes using the oven to roast our fish and seafood. 

Sneha’s Recipe: Air Fryer Whole Mackerel Fish Roast
Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Crispy Salmon Bellies
Food Lust People Love: Baked Shrimp-Stuffed Sole Fillets
Palatable Pastime: Honey Pistachio Crusted Salmon
Goats and Greens: Roasted Almond-Breaded Tapenade-Stuffed Trout with Mushroom Sauce.
A Day in the Life on the Farm: Roasted Chilean Sea Bass One Skillet Dinner
Karen's Kitchen Stories : Slow Roasted Salmon with Garlic Butter and Herbs

Air Fryer Tofu 65- Vegan & Gluten Free#MultiCookerMonday

Tofu, this soya cheese which is a perfect replacement for paneer for vegan's. They are excellent source of protein with many health benefits. Tofu has a neutral taste.
Made this Tofu 65 which is an excellent for a starter or else as a snack food for my vegan guest. Since these are air fried it doesn't take much time in cooking. Once marinated, these tofu slices can be grilled in an air fryer with less effort and short time.

Ingredients
400 Grams Firm Tofu
2 Teaspoons Kashmiri Red chilly powder
1 Teaspoon Black Pepper powder
1 Teaspoon Cumin powder
1 Teaspoons Ginger garlic paste
1 Small Lemon juice
1 Teaspoon Garam masala
1 Teaspoon Pink Himalayan Salt or to taste
1 Teaspoon Oil
A Pinch of Tandoori color - optional
½ Teaspoon Oil for brushing the air fryer basket

Method

Drain the water from the tofu and cut as medium thick slices and keep aside.

Take all the ingredients in bowl except the tofu slices, mix the marinade well and then add the tofu slices. apply the marinade well on each slice. Cover and keep it in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

After an hour take it out of the refrigerator and preheat the air fryer for 4 minutes at 180°C.
Grease the air fryer basket with a pastry brush with oil. Then arrange the slices, do no crowd the basket and set the air fryer timer to 10 or 15 minutes so as to how crispy you want.

It took just 25 minutes to make two batches of these in a preheated air fryer,
The first batch I kept for 10 minutes after 6 minutes changed the sides. The next batch to make a little more crispy kept it for 15 minutes, after 10 minutes changed the sides.

I served it Mayo Chipotle Sauce , you can serve this with any sauce of your choice.

Labels: Air Fryer, Vegan , Gluten Free, Healthy, Tofu, Starter, Party Pleasers, Multi Cooker Monday

Multicooker Monday

• • Air Fryer Buffalo Chicken Wings by Karen's Kitchen Stories
  • Fryer Tofu 65- Vegan by Sneha’s Recipe
  • Instant Pot Kheer by Magical Ingredients
  • Slow Cooker Barbecue Green Beans by Palatable Pastime
  • Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas by A Day in the Life on the Farm
  • Toaster Oven Mexican Rice by Sid's Sea Palm Cooking