Monday, February 28, 2011

Fish curry - with coconut

This is a fish curry which I normally prepare.  People back home though are vegans I started liking fish. this is one of my favorite dishes which is spicy and that could be taken with steamed rice or chappathis.


The ingredients are as follows:

1 large tomato-chopped into fine pieces.
2. 1 large onion - chopped into fine pieces
3. garlic pods large - 6 pieces.
4.ginger - finely chpped
5. Green chillies 4 - chopped
6. Tamarind - size of a gooseberry
7 Coconut grated and ground into fine paste-half
8. half teaspoon - turmeric powder
9. half teaspoon- dhania powder
10. Chilli powder -2 teaspoons
11. fenugreek powder - 1/4 of a teaspoon
12.garam masala - 1/2 teaspoon
13. cleaned fish - any edible fish cut into pieces.
14. salt to taste
15. oil -1 teaspoon
16. curry leaves

Preparation:

1. In a cooking vessel with a thick bottom pour little oil and add mustard seeds, green chillies, chopped garlic, chopped onions and saute till golden brown color.

2. Add tomotoes to this and saute. Then add garam masala, turmeric powder, chilli powder and shania powder to this mixture. Let the mixture cook to a paste like form.

3. Move the contents to a mixer grinder and finely grind to a thick paste. pour the gravy to the cooking vessel and add fish to it. add a bit of water and let this boil a little.

4. Soak tamarind in water and pour it on the gravy.

5. Then add cocnut paste to this mixture. let this cook for some time and add a little more water to it. once the water content is reduced a thick gravy is formed, add salt to taste and add curry leaves.

6. Serve hot with steamed rice,appam, dosa, idiyappam or chappathis.






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