{"id":7975,"date":"2021-12-16T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:16:53","slug":"deep-fried-and-spiced-fish-egg-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/deep-fried-and-spiced-fish-egg-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-Fried and Spiced Fish Egg Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any fish can be used for the fish-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/?s=roe\">eggs<\/a>, but West Bengalis like to use only freshwater fish. The quantity of flour depends on how much it takes to make non-breakable balls. The egg is both for binding and to deepen the taste\u2013half an egg is enough, but you could use more or less if needed.<\/p>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeling-in-the-Years.jpg\" alt=\"reeling in the years\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeling-in-the-Years.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeling-in-the-Years-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Deep-Fried and Spiced Fish Egg Balls<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>8 ounces shad or whitefish roe<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon turmeric<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon ginger, pasted in a mortar or blended<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon garlic, pasted in mortar or blended<\/li>\n<li>1 small dried red chile, crushed<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n<li>White flour<\/li>\n<li>Half an egg<\/li>\n<li>Salt to taste<\/li>\n<li>1 cup vegetable oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Knead all ingredients except the oil until well-mixed and the resultant mix achieves sufficient consistency to stick together.<\/li>\n<li>Then form small balls from the mixture, heat the oil in a heavy skillet until medium hot but not smoking, and fry the balls on medium heat for 2 minutes, or until starting to turn golden.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yield: 10 balls<br \/>\nHeat Scale: Medium<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"level__left\">\n<div class=\"level__item\">\n<div class=\"js-copy-attribute-content photo-page__adp-cta__container__attribution\">Photo by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@bertellifotografia?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Matheus Bertelli<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/small-bowl-with-appetizing-sweet-snack-balls-3856049\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any fish can be used for the fish-eggs, but West Bengalis prefer freshwater fish. The amount of flour depends on how much it takes to make non-breakable balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,50],"tags":[826,251,825,104,414,335,827],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}