Spicy Onion Fish Curry Recipe with step by step pictures. This is made without coconut, onion and spices. Curry which goes well with rice.

Spicy Onion Fish Curry
Adding coconut to fish curry makes delicious curry, but recently I started experimenting a lot to find the perfect no coconut fish curry. Couple weeks back I made a fish curry with lots of shallots, onions and curry leaves. It gave the thickness to the fish curry, flavour to it and tasted yummy.
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I made this for lunch and served it with roti. It was yummy. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.
Ingredients for Spicy Onion Fish Curry
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam / Methi - ½ tsp
- Curry leaves a sprig
- Chilli Powder - 2 teaspoon or to taste
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi - 2 tblspn
- Brinjal - 1 large sliced into long slices
- Fish Pieces - 500 grams (i used sardine)
- Tamarind Pulp - 2 to 3 tblspn or to taste
- Water as needed
For Masala:
- Oil - 2 tsp
- Shallots / Sambar Onion / Chinna Ulli - 25 to 30 peeled
- Onion - 1 large sliced
- Curry leaves a big handful
- Turmeirc Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
How to make Spicy Onion Fish Curry
- Heat oil in a pan, add in shallots, onion, curry leaves, salt and turmeric powder and
- Saute for 8 to 10 mins till it is translucent and light golden.
- Now take it in a blender and make it into a fine puree.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add in fenugreek and mustard seeds. Add in curry leaves and saute for a min.
- Pour in the pureed masala and cook till oil separates from it.
- Add in chilli and coriander powder and mix well.
- Now add in brinjal and toss well. Add in water and tamarind pulp, mix well. Cook till brinjal is cooked.
- Now add in the fish pieces and cook till the fish is done.
- Serve with rice.

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Spicy Onion Fish Curry Recipe | Fish Curry without Coconut
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon Oil
- 1 teaspoon Mustard Seeds / Kaduku
- ½ teaspoon Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam / Methi
- Curry leaves a sprig
- 2 teaspoon or to taste Chilli Powder
- 2 tablespoon tblspn Coriander Powder / Malli Podi
- 1 large Brinjal sliced into long slices
- 500 grams Fish Pieces i used sardine
- 2 to 3 tablespoon Tamarind Pulp or to taste
- Water as needed
- For Masala:
- 2 teaspoon Oil
- 25 to 30 Shallots / Sambar Onion / Chinna Ulli peeled
- 1 Onion large sliced
- Curry leaves a big handful
- 1 teaspoon Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, add in shallots, onion, curry leaves, salt and turmeric powder and saute for 8 to 10 mins till it is translucent and light golden.
- Now take it in a blender and make it into a fine puree.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add in fenugreek and mustard seeds. Add in curry leaves and saute for a min.
- Add in the pureed masala and cook till oil separates from it.
- Add in chilli and coriander powder and mix well.
- Now add in brinjal and toss well. Add in water and tamarind pulp, mix well. Cook till brinjal is cooked.
- Now add in the fish pieces and cook till the fish is done.
- Serve with rice.
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Spicy Onion Fish Curry Recipe step by step pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Heat some oil in a pot |
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| Add in a good amount of peeled shallots or sambar onions |
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| add in sliced onions |
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| good amount of curry leaves |
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| sprinkle in some salt and turmeric powder |
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| saute well |
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| Cook till the onions gets soft and a little colour |
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| add in tomatoes |
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| saute well |
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| take this in a blender |
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| make it into a fine puree |
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| Now in the same pan, add a touch of oil |
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| crackle some mustard and fenugreek seeds |
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| add in curry leaves |
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| saute for a min |
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| add in pureed masala |
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| now add in some chilli powder and coriander powder |
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| mix well |
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| cook till oil separates |
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| add in sliced brinjal |
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| Mix well |
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| Add in tamarind pulp |
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| pour in water |
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| mix well and cook till brinjal is cooked |
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| Add in your fish pieces, i used sardine / chala meen |
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| mix well and cook till fish is done |
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| Curry done |
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| Serve.. |










































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