Kerala Fish Curry

Ingredients:

6-7 small onions - peel and mash
6-7 small onions - cut in circles to fry in oil for garnish
little ginger - peel and mash
curry leaves
green chillies (3 long) - slit side ways
Coconut - half - grate and squeeze out milk - then put in mixer and squeeze out milk again
Kokum - 2-3 (soak in water and keep)
Chilli powder
Turmeric powder 

Recipe

Take mud pot, put mashed onions, ginger, curry leaves, green chillies , add one and a half tsp chilli powder, half spoon turmeric, salt to taste. Mix with hand. Add fish. Mix. Pour water till the fish is fully covered + lil more. Add the second milk (diluted one) - 3/4th of what you have. Now turn on the stove. Wait till it boils. Keep in sim. Add two kokums (remove the water in which they are soaking). Keep a lid over the pot (little open).

Let it cook for about 5 - 10 mins. Check if the fish is cooked. If cooked, add the first coconut milk. Let it cook for some time - it should not boil.  When it is about to boil, turn it off.

Peel about 6-7 small onions, cut them in circles and fry in oil until brown and add on top of the fish curry.

Mutton Biryani: Kerala Style

Ingredients

Mutton: 1 Kilo curry cut
750-1 KG rice
Onions - 6 big or 8 small
Small onion - 50 gms
Green chillis - 8-10 if spicy
Ginger - 2 long pieces
Garlic - 25 gms
Tomato - 6
Coriander - handful
Cinnamon - finger size 2
Elaichi - 4 full - mash a bit
Clove - 15
Bay leaf - 2
chilli powder - 1 spoon
curry leaves - 2 full strips
turmeric - 1 small spoon
lemon - 2
Curd (by choice to add little sourness)  1 spoon sour curd
Black pepper - 1 small spoon
Salt to taste
Ghee - 2 big spoons
Garam masala - 1 spoon
Grapes - 2 spoon
Oil

Method

Marinate mutton with turmeric, salt, lemon (1), garlic ginger paste (1 spoon), black pepper powder (1 spoon), mix all and nicely mix with the mutton. Keep aside for half hour. After that, take half glass (less) water and keep in cooker - 2-3 whistles. (semi cooked). After that, seperate the water.

soak the rice for half hour in water. Remove water.

Take a big vessel or cooker, put oil, onions - ten minutes fry in sim, add small onions and green chillies (cut small), curry leaf, ginger, garlic (mash) - let a nice smell come in about 2 minutes. Add tomatoes (finely chopped) - 5 minutes fry.  (add curd if you want, here)Turmeric, chilli, garam masala, corriander - after 5 min.

Add the mutton without water, and mix for ten minutes. Add oil if needed.

Add rice. keep in low flame, mix the rice with everything else. Add the second lemon's juice.

Mutton water - measure and see. Boil that water - 1 glass rice - 2 glass water ratio

Taste and see, and add salt. Water has to boil, keep mixing. After it boils, don't mix, slow the flame. Rice and mutton comes in one level. Then close and put in sim. (can fry raisin in ghee and put now). On top keep something heavy or a vessel with hot water. Ten minutes. Then open.

Add some coriander on top. and ghee if you want.