Meen achar / Fish Pickle

When there is no fish some may feel difficulty to take rice, right? This is for such 'strict non vegetarians'! :)
Once you prepared , you can refrigerate this..

Ingredients

Mackerels - 3 nos

Ginger - 1/2 inch piece

Garlic pods - 8 nos

Green chillies - 4 nos

Curry leaves - A few

Chilly powder - 2 tsp

Coconut oil enough for frying

White vinegar - 4 tbsp

For marination:-

Chilly powder - 3 tsp

Ginger-garlic paste - 3 tsp

Fennel seed(Perinjeerakam) powder - 3/4 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
salt

Method

1)Cut and clean mackerels.

2)Cut into small pieces.

3)Marinate it with chilly powder, garlic- ginger paste, fennel seed powder and turmeric powder, salt and keep it in fridge for 1 hour.

4)Fry the marinated fish pieces in coconut oil.

5)Chop garlic, ginger and green chillies and cut a few curry leaves.

6)After frying fish, take it out and put the chopped garlic, ginger, green chillies and curry leaves in the remaining oil.

7)Fry for few minutes.

8)Add white vinegar , enough salt and 2 tsp of chilly powder into this and let it boil.

9)Add the fried mackerel pieces into it.

10)Remove from fire.

11)Allow it to cool.

12)Mix before serving. :- We can also make pickle with king-fish, shark and prawns. bones do not make problems . Cut the fish into small pieces.