West Indian
Bombil Fry (Bombay Duck Fry)
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Bombil Fry (Bombay Duck Fry) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pat the bombil fillets dry; they are soft and gelatinous, so handle them gently and keep them whole where you can.
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Rub the fillets with the red chili powder, kashmiri chili powder, turmeric, ginger garlic paste, lemon juice and salt, and let them sit 15 minutes.
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Spread the semolina on a plate and press each fillet into it, coating both sides in a thin, even crust; the crust is what holds a bombil together in the pan.
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Heat the oil in a wide, flat pan over medium-high heat until shimmering.
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Shallow fry the fillets 3 minutes a side, turning once with a wide spatula, until the crust is golden and crisp and the flesh is opaque through.
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Serve hot and crisp, straight from the pan, with a wedge of lemon and dal-rice.
Serve it with
A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bombil Fry (Bombay Duck Fry), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bombil Fry (Bombay Duck Fry) carries gluten and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Aamti (Goda-Masala Spiced Dal) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Aamti (Goda-Masala Spiced Dal) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 250 kcal
- Protein
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bombil Fry (Bombay Duck Fry) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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