Ingredients
1. Fish/thirandi/stingray – 1 kg
2. Green chillies slit length wise – 2 nos
3. Ginger – 1 inch piece
4. Garlic chopped – 1 tsp
5. Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
6. Kodampuli /kokum/ fish tamarind – 3- 4 pieces
7. Curry leaves
8. Salt to taste
For tempering
mustard seeds – 1tsp
Dry red chillies – 2 nos
Shallots
Curry leaves
Coconut oil – 2 tbsp
For roasted coconut paste
Grated coconut – 2 cups
Chilli powder – 2 to 1/2 tsp.
Coriander powder – 4 tsp
Shallots – 4 nos
Peppercorns – 1tsp
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Method
Clean and cut the fish in to medium pieces. Soak kudampuli in one cup of hot water and set aside.
In a hot pan , add 1 tsp oil. Fry coconut and shallots till light brown. Add coriander powder, chilli powder turmeric powder, peppercorns and cumin seeds. Roast for a minute. Don’t burn them. Switch off the flame. Let it cool. Now grind them into a fine paste. Keep them aside.
In a munchatti, cook ingredients 1 to 8 adding 1 1/2 cups of water or (enough water). When it starts to boil, lower the flame, cook for another 5-6 minutes. Add the ground paste with little water to this. Cook in low flame till the gravy thickens (it should not be too thick or too watery). You can see the oil floating on the surface.
Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds. Add shallots, dry red chillies, and curry leaves to this. Pour this to the above prepared curry. Meen thenga varutharacha curry is ready to be served with kuthari choru. This curry goes well with dosa.
Tempting and delicious curry.. the color of gravy looks very appetizing..
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Looks so tempting…wish I could taste a bit of this curry.
V tempting n inviting… Love d color
wow the color of the curry is awesome..
look at the color of the curry, its so tempting that even i get so tempted.
Adipoli fiery curry.
very tempting color,hot & yummy!
Love to see your recipe linked up in Flavors Of Cuisines-"Mexican"
Tempting and tasty gravy.
Curry looks gorgeous and super tempting dear
D R O O L!!
perfect and delicious.
Delicious fish curry..Looks so spicy and yum!! 🙂
tempting…nice colour looks spicy..
What a great, comforting dish. The color of your curry is absolutely stunning – it even looks spicy and full of flavor.
First time here, yummy colour and fish looks great.
im drooling here, mom cooks with stingray too 🙂
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This is really flavoursome. Perfect for the winter dinners.
wow!!this looks delicious!!
enda ammo – chudukan chorrinu etta kootu…i loved this curry – kalakki.
I have prepared prawns.in same manner..inviting and drooling here
OMG this is tempting 😛
Simply drooling….this is soooo tempting!
Wooow super nice colour
The colour is looking good