Bang after an extremely busy and lazy period. How you may ask one can be both at the same. Actually this is what I specialize in and am good at it - 30 years of practice helps. It has been festivities involving fireworks first for bonfire and then for Deepavali. I have been bingeing on too many goodies that is way beyond my waist could cope with. Trying to sober down but without much success. This meen kuzhambu recipe reflects my position, trying hard to sober down but returning to old ways. So here is the recipe for meen kuzhambu for the pure pleasure of food. I got the recipe from this site (a great place for discussing food especially South Indian style) and have pretty much used it without any change.
- Shallots – 1 cup (or 1 large red onion)
- Coconut – ½ a coconut
- Tamarind – lemon size
- Tomato – 1
- Corriander powder – 4 Tbsp
- Chilli powder – 2 Tbsp
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Salt
- Fish – 750 gms
- Fenugreek seeds
- Curry Leaves
- Sesame oil – 3 tbsp
Peel and chop the onions except 6 of the small onions. Is using a big onion chop it to medium size and reserve ¼th of them. Grind the coconut, tomato and the reserved onions to a fine paste. To this add the powders and grind again. Extract the tamarind juice and mix it with the ground paste. Clean the fish and rub it with turmeric powder and salt. Heat 2 Tbsp of sesame oil in a pan. Any oil can be used, in Tamil Nadu sesame oil is used to get a unique flavour. When the oil is hot add the fenugreek seeds (this gives a wonderful aroma) and add the curry leaves and onions and fry until the onions turns colour. Then add the ground paste with some water. This has to bubble of for atleast 20 mins. Use more water if the curry is thick. Then add the fish of your choice. King Fish goes very well for this recipe. Cook the curry till the fish is cooked. Pour over the remaining sesame oil on the curry and close it with a lid and enjoy. I have tried some other fish curry recipes as well, but none is as good as this one. The Kuzhambu taste even better the next day.
6 comments:
Drooling over ur fish curry. Looks very tempting. I´ll give anything for a good fish curry.
Love the fish curry , now i just need simple rice for it :-)
First time here. That fish curry looks fabulous *drroling*.
Mamatha
Hi Devi,
Nice looking fish curry. Read just now all your recipes.
Feel like trying your lamb curry and fish too. Lovely blog........
cheers
rajani
what kind of fish did u use??
Hi Puspha, thanks for the comments. Just now checked out your blog and you have a cool one.
Thanks Happy cook. This fish curry is my kids all time favorite.
Thanks for visiting Mamatha. I hope you enjoy the recipes.
Hi Rajani, the lamb curry is a must try, esp with the New Zeeland lamb it comes out really well. Just now checked out your blog and you have a great one.
@Anonymous I generally use King fish. It is called Vanjaram in Tamil. But any fish would suit this recipe. I have tried Salmon and Hake, but wouldn't recommend Salmon.
I checked out all your blogs, didn’t know they were so many great ones out there. I am so glad I started blogging.
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