In a wide bowl, add thoroughly cleaned fish and pat dry with a kitchen towel.
In a wide bowl, add thoroughly cleaned fish and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Now add all the masala powders, ginger garlic paste, all-purpose flour and cornflour, and salt and mix well until the masala paste coats evenly onto the fish.
In a wide nonstick pan, add two to three tablespoons of oil and shallow fry nethili/ anchovies on medium heat, and this nethili/ anchovies fish cooks within a few minutes. So, have an eye and gently flip the fish onto the other side to cook perfectly. This fish hardly takes three to four minutes to cook.
Cook fish to perfection until it turns lovely golden crispy brown texture on one side. Now transfer the fish fry gently onto the absorbent tissue to absorb excess oil. Tada. Nethili varuval/ anchovies fry is ready to serve.
Serve this nethili varuval / anchovies fry as an accompaniment to rice varieties, as an accompaniment or snack just like that.
Notes
Clean the fish well and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Add masalas and gently mix as this fish is delicate and tender. You can marinate the fish overnight. Also, you can marinate only for fifteen minutes and then fry immediately.