மீன் கறி / Tangy Fish Curry without Coconut

Sometimes when you are up against the stress, making a fish curry seams like pulling a mountain. Its all because of a simple coconut. You have to do lots of work to that, starting from crack opening the coconut,grate it, grind it, Oh man that is tons of work. So when you are in those period of time try out this simple tangy fish curry which uses only onions and tomatoes.

This curry has simple spices and it is cooked in coconut oil, which gives lots of flavour to it. One more tip is you can make the curry a day ahead, because it taste so good the next day, the flavours will develop and gets into the fish. So try this out and tell me how it turned out.

Preparation time: 5 mins

Cooking Time: 35-40 mins

Serves : 4-5

Ingredients:

Fish Pieces - 500 gms (any firm white fleshed will do, I used Malabar Trevally/ Paarai)

Tamarind Pulp - 3 tblspn ( Click here for recipe)

Onion - 1 large sliced thinly

Tomato- 1 large chopped finely

Salt to taste

Chilli Powder - 2 tsp or to taste

Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp

Pepper Powder - 1 tsp

For Seasoning:

Coconut Oil - 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp

Fenugreek Seeds / Methi - 1/2 tsp

Dry Red Chilli - 1

Curry Leaves - 1 spring

Method:

Take a earthernware kadai or any pan and heat it up. Add coconut oil in it and let it heat up too.

Once it gets hot. Add the seasoning ingredients and let them sizzle for a min or so.

Add in onions and saute for 5 mins till they turn translucent and slightly golden.

Now add in the spice powders along with salt and let them bloom in the oil for 30 sec.

Throw in the tomatoes and let the cook for 5 mins till they turn mushy.

Now add in the tamarind pulp and some water(around2-3 cups) and bring it to a boil.

Now add in the fish pieces and let it cook covered for 15-20 mins.

Switch off the flame and serve with rice.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

Heat some coconut oil in a kadai

add mustard, fenugreek, red chilli and curry leaves

Add in the onions

and saute well

add in red chilli powder,pepper, salt, turmeric

and mix well

and in tomatoes

and mix well

add in tamarind extract

and bring it to a boil

add in fish pieces

cover with a lid

and let it cook for a while

Serve