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Fish Gravy / Meen Kolambu

Ingredients: Fish - 1/2 kg Shallots - 10 Ginger - 1 inch [finely chopped] Garlic - 8 pods [finely chopped] Coriander Powder - 1 tsp Chilly Powder - 2 tbsp Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Tamarind - a lemon size (soak it in water and extract the pulp) Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp Curry Leaves - few Red Chilly - 3 Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the fish and drain the excess water. Grind onion, ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds, red chilly and curry leaves. Now add grinded paste to it and fry until the raw smell leaves off. Add coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and fry till the raw smell leaves off. Add tamarind pulp to it and bring it to boil and let the gravy to thicken a little. At last add fish pieces to it and wait until it is cooked well. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it! Side Dish: Goes well with hot rice Like this article? Subscribe to the RSS fe...

Fish Fry / Meen varuval

Ingredients: Fish – 8 pieces of medium size Coriander Powder – 1 tsp Chilly Powder – 2 tsp Pepper Powder – ½ tsp Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp Ginger Garlic Paste – 2 tsp Rice Flour – 1 tsp Corn Flour – 1 tsp All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1 tsp Egg White of 1 egg Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Mix coriander powder, Chilly Powder, Pepper Powder, Turmeric powder, Ginger Garlic Paste, Rice Flour, Corn Flour, All Purpose Flour / Maida, Egg White of 1 egg, 2 tbsp of cooking oil and required salt in a bowl to a paste like consistency. Add a little of water if the mixture is too dry. Marinate all the fish pieces in this mixture and the masala should coat on all the sides of the fish equally and refrigerate it for at least an hour. After an hour, deep fry the fish in batches in simmer flame so that the fish will turn be much crispier rather than cooking in high flame. Side Dish: It goes well with hot white rice and briyani and all other types of variety rice. Like this article? Su...

Fish Kolambu (Type 2)

Ingredients: Fish – ½ kg (cut into cubes) Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp Red Chilly Powder – 2 tbsp Tamarind – lemon size (soak it in water and extract the juice) Small / Baby Onion – 50 gms Tomato – 2 (finely chopped) Coconut – 1 piece Aniseed – 1tbsp Pepper – 1 tbsp Garlic – 5 pods Cumin Seeds – 2 tsp Fenugreek Seeds – 2 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Service For: 3 People Cooking Time: 20 minutes Cooking Instructions: Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and sauté it with baby onion, aniseed, pepper and garlic pods. Now transfer this to a mixie jar along with tomatoes and coconut piece and grind it to a fine paste. Heat oil in a deep pan and sauté it with cumin and fenugreek seeds. Add the grinded paste to this and fry it for a while. Now add tamarind juice, chilly powder, coriander power and required salt and water to it and bring it to boil. When the gravy starts to thicken, add fish pieces to it and bring it to boil. Switch off the stove when the fish is well cooked. Fish will be cooked withi...

Fish Kolambu (Type 1)

Ingredients: Fish – ¼ kg (clean it and cut into small pieces) Tomato – 3 (finely chopped) Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Green Chilly – 6 (cut it lengthwise) Tamarind – 50 gms (soak it in water and extract the juice from it) Garlic – 10 pieces Coriander Powder – 5 tbsp Red chilly Powder – 3 tbsp (if u need more, you can add it) Cumin Powder – 1 tsp Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Fenugreek Seeds – 1 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Service For: 3 People Cooking Time: 15 minutes Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds and when it starts to splutter, add onions to it and fry it till it turns golden brown. Now add tomatoes to and green chilly to it and fry it till it is well mashed. Add turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and red chilly powder to it and mix it well. Add tamarind water to it and bring it to boil. Now add salt and required water and let it to cook well. When the kolambu is cooked well and when it attains to a li...