Varutharacha Meen Kuzhambu Recipe with step by step pictures. Roasted spices and coconut made into a paste and made into a delicious fish curry.
Varutharacha Meen Kuzhambu Recipe
When it comes to making curries or any kulambu, I love making it from scratch. I mean making it from roasting whole spices till it turn nutty and dark and grinding it to form the base of the gravy. This gives you the maximum flavour and this what makes the curry taste like a proper curry. Of course there are certain curries that can be made in minutes..In fact I have a separate section called Curry in a Hurry, You can check that. This curry is not that instant kind..It needs some effort but once the masala is done, cooking can be done in 30 mins.
I am not so fond of fish, I have a few fish recipes in my blog, you can check all of them here.I made this a month back and I served it with a simple fish fry.Hope you will like this a lot and let me know what you think.
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Varutharacha Meen Kuzhambu Recipe
Ingredients
- Fish – 300 gms cubed any fish of your choice
- Salt to taste
- Coconut Oil- 2 tblspn
- Shallots /Sambar Onion – 3 finely chopped
- For Roasting and Grinding:
- Coconut – 1 cup
- Coriander Seeds / Kothamalli – 1 tblspn
- Dry Red Chilli – 4 or to taste
- Shallots / Sambar Onion– 5
- Garlic – 5 cloves
- Tamarind – 1 small Piece / 2 tbsp if using paste
- Curry leaves – 2 spring
Instructions
- In a pan add all ingredients except tamarind and fry till it turns dark brown. Now add tamarind to the mixture and take it in a blender and make into a smooth paste.
- Transfer this to a kadai along with some water. Add salt to taste and bring it to boil. Cover and simmer till oil separates.
- Now add in the fish pieces and mix well.Cover and simmer again for 8-10 mins.
- Heat coconut oil in a pan and add chopped shallots and fry for 3 mins.
- Pour this over the fish curry and mix well.
- Serve with rice and fish fry.
Video
Meen Kulambu Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take your favourite fish |
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| add all roasting ingredients in a pan.. |
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| start frying |
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| fry till it turns dark golden |
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| like this |
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| transfer to a blender |
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| add tamarind |
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| and grind again |
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| transfer to a kadai |
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| add salt |
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| bring it to a boil |
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| cover and simmer till oil separates |
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| now add fish |
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| and let it cook |
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| cover and cook |
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| till oil separates again |
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| heat coconut oil |
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| add shallots and fry till golden |
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| pour this over the curry |
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| Mix and serve |
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| Taste great with rice |
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| Enjoy.. |
Ganga Sreekanth
Yummy and spicy.perfect with rice
faseela
wow...yummy n authenic curry....
kala
Nice...
Megan Pence
Aarthi this looks delicious! I never would have dreamed something like this. Wonderful!! ~Megan
Suja Manoj
Wow this is awesome fish curry..drool
Sumi
yummy..yaravathu ippadi samaichi koduthanalla irukum 🙂
J
I've never had curry with tamarind, but it sure looks good!
Gloria
look and sounds really yummy!!
maha
this gravy looks just awesome.mouthwatering dish...thanx dear 4 sharing this.........
Maha
Teena Mary
Your recipes are simply amazing! Loved the method of preparation of this fish curry...I would love to have that rice & fish on the banana leaf right now!!
Nitha
delicious... looks yumm..
Poonam Borkar
Curry looks very delicious Aarthi..will try this!!
Spicy-Aroma
Manju
Lovely, this recipe ios very similar to how we Keralites prepare Theeyal...
Shabitha Karthikeyan
Yummy and aromatic fish curry !!!
Mélange
My all time fav Aarthi.The aroma reached here.Am drooling..So yummy and homely.
Rumana Rawat
Yummy curry:)
Treat and Trick
So mouthwatering and nice recipe!
Shilpakiran
yumm yumm and just yumm...thanks for sharing
Chandrani
Spicy and yummy fish curry.
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Roshni
mouthwatering
Biny Anoop
wow love the gravy...gr8 one
Kim
This fish probably taste fantastic with all of these ingredients! I like it!
Vidhya
Sounds delicious and looks tempting.
Archana
I love fish curry