Goan MACKEREL CURRY WITH BLACK GRAM & FENUGEERK (Uddamethi)

MACKEREL CURRY WITH BLACK GRAM & FENUGEERK (Uddamethi)

Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 8

Ingredients :-

1. Large mackerels (scalled) 6 nos
2. Grated coconut 2 cups
3. Onions 4 nos
4. Red chillies 8 nos
5. Turmeric powder 2 tsp
6. Peppercorns 50 nos
7. Oil  3 tbsp
8. Lime-size ball of tamarind (15 gm)/Kokum
9. Rice 2 tbsps
10. Black gram 2 tbsp
11. Fenugreek ½ tsp
12. Salt to taste

Method:

Cut each mackerel into 4 pieces; apply salt, marinate and wash after 15 minutes. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan. Stir-fry rice till it becomes dark brown and remove from oil. To the same oil add  black gram (dal) and stir-fry till browned. Remove the black gram (dal) from the oil. Put fenugreek and blackpepper corns into the same oil, stir-fry till fenugreek splatters, and remove from the oil. Cut one onion lengthwise. Stir-fry in 2 tsp oil in a separate pan till golden brown. Add grated coconut and stir-fry till brown.

Course rice and black gram (dal) together. Grind stir-fried coconut, tamarind, chillies and turmeric to a rough paste and keep aside. Fenugreek and peppercorns should also be ground to a fine paste.
Cut the remaining 3 onions fine and stir-fry in the remaining oil until onion becomes soft. Add ground coconut with 5 cups water and salt. Add mackerels, mix ground rice and black gram dal with the curry. Stir and cook for 3 minutes.