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Anchovies Fish Curry Recipe – Nethili Meen Curry Recipe (with coconut)

August 1, 2015 By Aarthi 9 Comments

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This fish curry is one of the recipe which i found on a cookbook and tried it immediately. The actual recipe name is nethili meen kootu, but i called it as simple nethili meen curry. I already have a version of anchovies fish curry with no coconut, this one has coconut and it gives a little substance to the curry. 

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Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 30 to 40 mins
Serves : 5 to 6


Ingredients:

Anchovies / Nethili Meen – 300 grams cleaned
Oil – 4 tblspn
Curry leaves a handful
Onions – 1 large size chopped finely
Tomatoes – 1 large chopped finely
Green Chillies – 2 slit
Chilli Powder – 1 tblspn or to taste
Coriander Powder / Malli Podi – 2 tblspn
Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi – 1 tsp
Tamarind Pulp – 3 tblspn
Water – 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves a handful finely chopped

For Masala:
Fresh Coconut – 1/2 cup grated     
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tblspn
Fennel Seeds / Saunf / Sombu – 2 tsp


Method:

Grind the ingredients given for masala to a smooth paste. Set aside. Dissolve tamarind with some water and set aside.

Heat oil in a earthernware pot. Add in curry leaves and fry for few sec.

Add in onions, chillies and salt. Saute this till it gets light golden.

Add in tomatoes and cook till it gets mushy.

Add in spice powders and mix well. Add in coconut masala and cook till oil separates from the mix.

Add in tamarind water and cook till oil floats on top.

Add in fish and simmer for 5 to 8 mins.

Add in coriander leaves and mix well.

Serve.

Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients
Clean your fish and set aside
Take coconut in a blender
add in fennel seeds
ginger garlic paste or chopped ginger and garlic
puree till smooth..Set aside
Heat oil in a pot, add curry leaes
add in onions and green chillies
add in salt
fry them 
cook till they get light golden
add in tomatoes
cook till it gets mushy
add in spice powders
add in the coconut masala
saute them
cook them till oil separates and nice aroma comes from the masala
pour in tamarind 
mix well
simmer till oil floats on top
add in cleaned fish
mix well
cook them for 5 mins or so
add coriander leaves
mix that well
Serve
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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Anonymous

    August 1, 2015 at 11:09 am

    Mouth watering recipe

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  2. Meena .s

    June 18, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    Tasty, I tried it and it was great. But I made it without using oil. Still it was nice and i added a small Brinjal. And I wish to tell you one thing that I now can cook a little bit only because of you, I learned rasam, nethili fish curry & peera, dhal curry, cauliflower kootu from you. I tried all of these for the first time with OK comments from my family. Because I never had cooked anything before… Aarthi love you have much. U r a good teacher…

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  3. Senthil T

    July 17, 2016 at 8:41 am

    I tried it now…..really awesome…. Thank u so much for posting this with yummy pics…..pics help me a lot…

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  4. Sudhak

    September 7, 2016 at 3:54 am

    Tried it and came out really well…awesome it was…thanks arthi

    Reply
  5. Alboni - Boni's Healthy Twists

    September 28, 2016 at 5:56 am

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  6. Sarala Prathish

    January 20, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    I regularly follow all your posts..it is really good and easy to follow with step wise pictorial demonstration which is indeed kind of very helpful. Thank you for the great dishes. I have a doubt can the same procedure be followed for every other fish or is it only for anchovies?…

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    • Aarthi

      January 24, 2018 at 12:51 pm

      yes u can

      Reply
  7. Swetha

    November 10, 2019 at 6:39 am

    Tried this recipe today !!! Great taste and so flavourful… simple, quick reciple with easy ingredients… Thanks Arthi .

    Reply
  8. Athulya

    January 2, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    Tried it now it’s tasty

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