Gajalee is one of our favorite restaurants in Mumbai. It serves coastal seafood. Though not exactly coastal variety, we also love their tandoori flavor. The server shows you the catch of the day - a fresh khapri pomfret - and then the chef prepares the Tandoori pomfret for you. Alas, I do not get fresh pomfret here. I mean, yes, it's available at our oriental stores, but the taste is not the same. So when I crave for the seafood, I use whatever I get from the supermarket. Thus, I made tandoori salmon and my husband actually enjoyed it even more. (after all it's boneless!)
Tandoori Salmon
Ingredients
3 salmon fillets, rinsed, patted dry, scored
Whisk together in a bowl
3 tbsp tandoori masala
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
Oil for basting/grilling
Method
1. Clean and rinse the salmon fillets.
2. Pour the tandoori marinade all over.
3. Make sure the fillets are covered with marinade. Set aside in the fridge for 30 minutes
4. Heat the grill pan. Lightly spray with oil
5. Place salmon fillets by removing excess marinade. Discard the remaining marinade.
6. Grill on both the sides till grill marks appear.
7. Serve with salad and lemon wedges.
Note -
1. Check for salt in your tandoori masala ingredients. and use or do not use accordingly.
2. Salmon is quite filling fish. One fillet is more than enough for one person. So choose smaller portions of fillets.
7 comments:
Wow!! nice looking salmon.
I make tandoori fish and shrimp in the same manner usually on sundays and also make grilled veges and pineapples and my son calls it BBQ meal :)
Gajalee is even my favorite !! though I love everything of it, i love the prawns pickle the most!!
btw do you have its recipe ?
I somwhow did quite take a liking to salmon. Nw that I am back in iNida I can really really enjoy pomfret, Surmai & my all time fav Karli & stuffed mackeral.
I am sure if try salmon this way i will like it.
even before reading the recipe I bookmarked it. i know its a keeper. the recipe is lovely and simple and the pic is to die for.
Mayuri:
I would love to have Seafood BBQ meal any time!!;-)
Kanchan:
I agree. Though I don't have a recipe for Gajalee's prawns pickle, I have a few prawns pickle recipes as made in my family. Will blog them soon.
Pooja V:
You are in India? Cool...It took me a while to get used to the seafood here, and now I have started enjoying it. But nothing beats fresh pomfret, surmai, karli, bangda, tisrya, bombil, rawas....I think I can go on and on and on!:-D
A homemaker's Diary:
That's so sweet of you. Thanks for bookmarking. Hope you enjoy it.
wow it looks so fresh n delicious meera..to be honetly this one iz tempting me...really mouth watering..congrats for this perfect tandoori salmon dear...
Hey Meera - stumbled across your wonderful blog! By the way - have you ever tried baking the Tandoori Salmon? It turns out wonderful - I bake it at 425F for about 10-12 minutes and then broil on high for about 5 minutes to brown. I've often served it with a Ceasar or other fresh salad and my family and friends love it!
:)
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