The global seafood scenario is witnessing changes in consumer's preference particularly in urban consumers. Conventional products are slowly disappearing from the markets, their place being taken up by products emerging in new styles or forms of value added products in Ready-To-Eat and Ready-To-Cook form. Keeping in view a new Ready-To-Eat product, Fish ball in curry was prepared from Catla fish. In this book methodology of product preparation and shelf life study of product at chilled and frozen is discussed.

Battered and Breaded value added fish products is one which have a good market potential in domestic as well as international market. However, the emphasis of coated products has been shifted from home front to the restaurant and fast-food outlets. Developing battered and breaded value added fishery products is a satisfactory task for the fish processing industry with multiple benefits. Most prominent and profitable one is the coated product. Battered and breaded fish product is convenience food product valued greatly by the consumers all over the world. India has a vast potential for...