Homestyle Fish Fry with Yogurt-Cilantro Dip

This is my Ma's recipe which I recreated the day I had invited Progna( this is her blog), Sam and their 3year-old son Sid over for lunch. Since Progna is an awesome cook herself and I was inviting her over for the first time, I needed a surefire recipe. I knew that I had hit the mark when Sid and Soh (my 2.5year old who is also a picky eater) asked for seconds.

Ma makes it with Bhetki (wikipedia:Barramundi/Barramundi perch) - and this is how it looks.

What I needed:

For the fish fries:

• 4 Tilapia fillets (you can use Bhetki fillets) 
•  1 small onion
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• 1 cup of cilantro
• 3-4 mint leaves
• 1/2 cup of flour (for coating)
• 1 egg lightly beaten (for coating)
• 1 cup of plain bread crumb (for coating)
• 1tbs of oil
• Salt to Taste
• Freshly Ground Pepper
• Oil for frying

For the yogurt dip:

• 1/2 cup curd
• 1 cup of cilantro
• A dash of Lemon
• 3-4 cloves of garlic
• Green Chili - 2 
• 1 tsp Oil

How I made them:

• I washed and patted the fillets dry with a paper towel and seasoned both sides with salt and paper.
• Cut the fillets into bite size pieces - I got about 5-6 pieces out of each fillet
• Blended together the onion, garlic cloves, cilantro and mint leaves along with 1tbs of oil, added the fish to the marinade, covered it and let it stand overnight.
• Next day, I made an assembly line of flour, egg and breadcrumbs in 3 different vessels and dredged the fish fillets first in flour, then dunked in the egg and ultimately gave those a coating of breadcrumb.
• Heated some oil in a pan and fried the fish till they turned golden brown on each side and served them with the yogurt-cilantro dip.

The dip: I blended all the ingredients together and voila.. the dip appeared. I however did not add salt to it.