Prepare Fish Reacheado

Ingredients :

1 pomfret
½ a lemon
salt to taste
20 red chillies
6-7 pc cloves
2 pc cinnamon
5 pc green cardamoms
¼ tsp cumin seeds
¼ tsp black pepper corns
2 pc ginger
1 pod of garlic
2 tsp oil
1 large chopped onion
1 tsp sugar


Preparation :

Soak red chillies, cloves, cinnamon, green cardamoms, cumin seeds, black pepper corns, ginger and garlic in toddy vinegar for 12 hours. Then grind to a paste.

Sauté onions in 1 tsp oil on low flame till brown. Add sugar. Now add the sautéed onions to the prepared paste. The recheado masala is now ready.

Clean and cut fish, then stuff it with reacheado paste. Add salt and lime juice. Refrigerate below 5 degrees centigrade 1 hour. Then shallow fry fish in 1 tsp oil for 7-8 minutes each side.

Fish recheado is ready. It's best served hot with goan bread.

We recommend you to look at our other Seafood Recipes

Most goans would agree that their favourite dish is fish curry and rice, where there is a good mix of ingredients in every mouthful. Seafood forms an important part of the goan diet as it is high in protein. Goa has a beautiful coastline which yields plentiful supplies of fish all year round. The goans skills in preparing and serving fish are legendary and this is amplified by the variety of fish available; kingfisher pomfret, doumer, tuna, mackerel, crab, prawns, tiger prawns, shark, lobster squid and mussels, the list is endless. Goans are extremely adept at preparing fish in a wide variety of fish. Very fresh fish is sliced thinly and served raw; this is desirable and adds a bit of zest to any goan recipe.

Fish can also be marinated, normally in a rashard but this is no means the only way it is prepared. Fish is also poached, battered, fried, grilled and cooked on skewers. For the sake of our little taste buds many beach shacks and restaurants present seafood lightly spiced, or without spices at all. Fish should be served as fresh as possible and it is usual for diners to choose their fish from tanks in restaurants.