Kerala Fish Curry

 I am a big fan of homemade foods, especially South Indian Cuisine. My favorite one is the Kerala style spicy fish curry with tamarind or raw mango. Here in this post I decided to add some Kerala style recipes and I am sure that you are going to enjoy it.

Kerala Fish Curry with raw mango

Fish curry with raw mango is a typical traditional Kerala recipe.

 

• · Fish - ½ kg

• · Small Onion 7 nos

• · Ginger (small piece)

• · Garlic – 5 nos

• · Fenugreek powder – one pinch

• · Turmeric powder - ½ tsp

• · Chilli powder 3 teaspoon

• · Corriander powder - 1 teaspoon

• · Mango cut in to small pieces

• · Cumin (jeera) - ¼ tsp

• · Green chilli 2 nos

• · Curry leaves - a few

• · Coconut (Scarped)- 1cup

• · Oil – 1 tablespoon

• · Mustard seeds -1 tsp

• · Tamarind(dried)- 2 nos

• · Black pepper powder- 1 tsp

• · Salt - to taste

 

Clean and cut the fish into small pieces. Grind onion, ginger, garlic, turmeric powder, chilly powder, coriander powder, cumin, and pepper powder with little water into a fine paste. In a cooking vessel, usually use mud vessel to make fish curry in Kerala, heat oil and add mustard seeds, when it started bursting add curry leaves and fry a little bit. Add the grinded paste with sufficient water and salt. When started boiling add the fish pieces and raw mango and green chillies. Cook for fifteen minutes and let the curry simmer. By the time Soak one cup of scraped coconut in one cup of warm water for three to four minutes. Grind and squeeze to extract the milk. Finally add fenugreek powder and the coconut milk. Serve with steamed rice.

Note: you can add drumsticks if it is available. At the end you can garnish the curry with coriander leaves.

Pulissery(curd with coconut)

Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup yogurt,1 cup grated coconut,1 small onion cut into small pieces,2 garlic,1/4 tsp cumin,1/2 tsp coriander powder,a pinch of methi or uluva or fenugreek seeds powder,1/4 tsp turmeric powder,some red chilli's(dry),mustard seeds and curry leaves to fry.

In a mixer grind into fine paste,coconut,onion,garlic,cumin,coriander powder,uluva powder and turmeric powder. Then mix the paste firmly with yogurt. You can add water if needed. Heat oil and add mustard seed,when mustard seed started bursting add curry leaves and chilly(Dry). Fry a little and add the yogurt paste,heat it for a while ( Do not boil!!!!)