Ingredients:
Kanambu Fish / Mullet or any other medium sized fish with firm flesh – 1/2 kg
Grated coconut – 1 cup
Chilly powder – 1 tbsp (adjust to tate)
Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp
Jeera powder – 1/2 tsp
Garlic – 4 cloves
Shallots, ulli – 4-6
Tamarind paste – 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 strand
Mustard and fenugreek – for tempering
Gingelly oil (Indian Sesame oil) or coconut oil – 2 tbsp
Salt – to taste
How to Make Kerala Fish Curry:
1. Grind coconut, pepper, garlic, shallots, turmeric and jeera to a paste with some added water.
2. Heat oil and crackle mustard seeds. Fry fenugreek for a while and add a couple of chopped shallots. Then add curry leaves and chilly powder.
3. Add the gound paste, tamarind salt. Half a cup water may be added at this stage if gravy is too thick. Boil for 2 mins.
4. Add the cleaned and cut fish pieces, close and cook for 10 mins.
5. Serve hot with rice and any thoran.
Note: Replacing tamarind paste with one or two kodam puli (cocum) would change the flavour of the curry. But we use kodam puli only in curries that use no coconut like the Kerala red fish curry.
More Kerala Fish Recipes:
Karimeen Pollichathu
Kerala Fish Fry
Nethili Fry
Nags u kerala fish curry have copied and posted here..pls check it out..http://recipeshere.blogspot.com/2008/09/macchi-ka-salan.html
Ruby – there is chilly powder in the list of indredients, the 3rd item 🙂
how does ur curry look red in colour when u haven't added chilly powder….
Great recipe…. i love fish curry… but can some one please prepare it for me… am too lazy to prepare it for myself. lol….
Oh my, how did I miss this? I could just drink that gravy up… Great job N… I better post an RCI entry soon, before you post every mallu dish out there 😀
The fish curry looks amazingly delicious!
Love the look of the meen curry. Will def try this curry.
Very coincidental!!!I am drafting another simple meal!!!:O
Awesome post!!!
kanambu curry? wow, get me some..:)
randu divasam munbu valyoru kananmbu vangi grill cheythu akathaakki..:D
ini adutha thavana curry thanne..
it is fun to come to ur blog and see that u have changed something yet again!! looks nice..and since i can’t comment on the meal ..all i can say is ‘hi!’ 😀