Easy Fish Curry

Ingredients:
Fish cleaned and cut into pieces
Tamarind - lemon sized soaked in water
Tomato - 1 cubed
To make to a paste
Chilli powder - 1.5 tbsp
Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tbsp
Shallots - 10 to 12
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Curry Leaves - generous amount
Salt to taste

Method:
Grind everything under the list to make to a paste.
Put the paste, mix with some water and add the tomatoes and bring to a boil
When it starts boiling add the tamarind water and fish and cook on low flame till the fish gets cooked.Roughly it takes around 30 mins for entire process.

Ingredients to make to a paste

take in a blender

put the paste & tomato in a bowl

Bring to a boil

Tamarind water

add tamarind water the boiling mixture

add fish and cook on low flame till fish gets cooked

serve with rice :)

Fish Fry V2

This is also a basic recipe many of us now. I am just sharing the way i usually make.

Ingredients:
Fish any type you want - 6 to 7 pieces
Red Chilli powder - 2 tbsp
Garam masala - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tbsp
Salt to taste

Method:
In a small bowl add all masala powders along with salt. Mix few drops of water and make it into a smooth paste.
Apply this paste over each piece of fish and let it rest for 5 to 10 mins in ref. (If you leave in fridge it helps the masala to be absorbed by the fish)
Heat some oil on a pan and shallow fry the fish pieces.

take all powders

make into a paste

apply on fish pieces

shallow fry

fish fry ready

Prawn Fry

Ingredients:
Prawn - 500 gm
Red Chilli powder - 1.5 tbsp
Garam masala - 3/4 tbsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Onion - 1/2 sliced thinly
Salt to taste

Method:
Clean and devein the prawns.
Mix all the masala powders and keep it aside for 10 mins.
Heat oil in a pan, then put the prawn & onion and saute for 5 mins, close and cook another 5 mins
Finally fry for another 2 mins till it becomes dry. Serve with rasam and rice.

Quick Prawn Curry

                    This is a tangy prawn curry with very few ingredients. Amma used to make this very often, it just brought my childhood memories. This can be made in under 30 mins if you have already cleaned and deveined the prawns. Me and mams got a chance to get some prawns from market this week, so made this curry and didnt forget to take a snap to share it with you all.

Ingredients:
Prawns - 500 gm
Tomato - 1 finely chopped
Onion - 1 big finely chopped
Chilli powder - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Salt to taste

To temper:
Curry leaves - few
Mustard  & Cummin seeds and oil

Method:
Heat some oil in a pan and add curry leaves and mustard & cummin seeds and allow it to splutter.
Saute onion till it turns transparent. Then saute tomato till it turns mushy.
Once done add turmeric,salt and chilli powder, give a mix, close and cook for few mins till the raw smell goes.
Then add the cleaned prawns, give a quick stir and cook for 10 mins.
Garnish with coriander leaves if needed. Serve hot with plain rice and papadam. Enjoy :)

Notes:

Dont overcook the prawns as it changes its texture to rubber.
Make sure to clean the prawns well and devein it or it might lead to food poisoning.

Sura Puttu/ Scrambled Fish Fry

I was watching all the episodes of Kitchen Superstar of vijay tv. Whenever the contestants got a chance to cook fish, atleast one was there making sura puttu. I got a craving to taste it. I was not able to get shark fish for doing it. I replaced it with salmon. It tasted very good. So here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

Salmon Cutlet	2(around 1 kg)
Onion	1 chopped finely
Garlic 10 cloves	Chopped finely
Ginger	½ quantity of garlic chopped finely
Green Chillies	3 chopped finely
Chilli powder	1.5 tbsp
Coriander	¾ tbsp
Pepper powder	1 tbsp
Cumin seed	1 tbsp
Mustard seeds	1 tbsp
Curry leaves	few
Turmeric powder	½ tbsp

Method:

1.       Clean the cutlet and cook it with little water and turmeric powder. Once cooled, remove the flesh of fish alone.

2.       In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oil (I use gingelly oil for making any fish curry). Splutter the mustard seeds. Once done, add the cumin seeds and curry leaves.

3.       Then sauté onion, garlic,green chillies and ginger pieces.Add the scrambled fish. To avoid burning, you can sprinkle some water.

4.      Add all the masala powders and fry for another 5 mins till everything gets mixed well

 

 

5.       Check for salt. Serve hot with rasam or sambar rice.

Sardines in Tamarind sauce/ Chaalai meen puli kulambu

I had a craving to have fish. I just went to fish market without having idea of what I am going to make. I saw sardines in the shop, at once I remembered Amma’s fish curry. Sardines in tangy tamarind sauce.

Ingredients:

Sardines	500 gm
Tamarind	Lemon size soaked in hot water.
Shallots	5 or 6
Garlic	4 or 5 gloves crushed
Tomato	1 chopped
Chilli powder	1 tbsp
Coriander powder	1 tbsp
Turmeric powder	½ tbsp.
Salt	To taste
Curry leaves	A few
Mustard seeds	1 tbsp
Green chillies	2 or 3 slit lengthwise

Method:

1.       Clean the sardines and keep it aside

2.       In a pan, heat oil and splutter the mustard seeds. Add the curry leaves, green chillies,garlic and onion and fry till it becomes transparent.

3.       Then add the chopped tomatoes and fry till it becomes mushy.

4.       At the same times, take tamarind juice. Mix all the masala powders to the tamarind extract, add to the pan and allow the sauce to cook.

5.       Once it starts boiling, add sardines and cook fish. Allow the curry to thicken a bit.

6.       Serve hot with rice

 

Prawn Masala Fry

Prawns are my favourite and favourite for my sis as well. I didn’t taste prawns for a while and bought it last week so that I can make a similar one like my amma does. But as usual ended in a innovative one. It was good tasting. But a bit spicy.

Ingredients

Prawns	500 gm
Onion	1 big sliced
Tomato	1 big sliced
Chilli powder	1 tbsp
Coriander Powder	1 tbsp
Turmeric powder	1 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste	1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves	1 tbsp

Method:

1.       Heat oil in pan and sauté onions till it becomes transparent. Then add the ginger garlic paste and fry till raw smell goes off.

2.       Then add the tomatoes and fry till it turns mushy. Add all the masala powders and fry till the raw smell goes off.

3.       Then add the prawns and fry for 2 mins. Add little water and cover it with a lid. Allow to cook on low flame for 20-30 mins on low flame.

4.       Once the prawn is cooked, fry till all the water drains off and the curry reaches a semi-gravy consistency. Garnish with coriander leaves.