Sunday, December 4, 2016

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.