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Village Syle Fish Curry Recipe / Gramathu Meen Kuzhambu Recipe

January 31, 2015 By Aarthi 21 Comments

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Fish has always an interesting ingredient to work with. I love love experimenting with it, and those experiments should satisfy my fish loving hubby as well. This is one recipe which i came across from my friend vani’s blog. She has lots of traditional recipe, you guys have to check it out.

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This fish curry has a mixture of roasted ground masala and fresh ground coconut masala which really makes it so yummy..Hope you will like this and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Coking Time : 45 mins
Serves : 5 to 6
Recipe Source: Vani, A Good Friend of Mine

Ingredients:
Gingelly Oil / Indian Sesame Oil – 3 tblspn
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
Shallots / Sambar Onion – 5 chopped finely
Tomatoes – 1 medium size chopped finely
Curry leaves a handful
Tamarind – a small lemon size
Salt to taste

For Grinding:
Coconut – 1 cup grated
Sambar Onion / Shallots – 10

For Roasting & Grinding:
Dry Red Chillies – 8 to 10 or as needed
Coriander Seeds – 2 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp

Method:
Soak tamarind in water and squeeze to remove the pulp. Strain and set aside.
Roast ingredients given for roasting, grind it to a fine paste. Grind coconut and shallots to a fine paste as well.
Take both the masala in a bowl, add in tamarind juice. Mix well..Masala done.
Heat oil in a kadai. Add in mustard seeds and let them sizzle.
Now add in shallots, tomatoes and curry leaves. Sprinkle some salt and cook for 2 mins or so.
Now add in masala and mix well. Add more water if needed, Cover and simmer till oil separates.
Now add in fish pieces and cook till fish is done.
Serve.

Pictorial:
Start by taking a small lemon size tamarind and soak it in water

once it is well soaked, squeeze to remove the pulp from it
Take your grinding ingredients

Take it in a dry pan

roast till golden

Remove to a plate and let it cool

now take it in a blender

powder it lightly

add in water

puree till smooth

take the pureed masala in a bowl

Now take small onion / shallots and coconut in a blender

make it into a fine paste

add the coconut masala in 
add in tamarind pulp

mix well..Add more water if needed

Take your other ingredients

Heat gingelly oil in a kadai

Add in mustard seeds

in goes some chopped shallots, curry leaves and tomatoes

Saute them lightly

sprinkle some salt

pour the masala in

mix well

now bring this to a boil

cover and simmer till oil separates

look the gravy is done

add fish pieces in

mix well and cook till oil separates

curry done

enjoy
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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

    January 31, 2015 at 11:38 am

    I am a lover of your blog. Checking it daily:-). Pls let me know which fish you used

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  2. Aarthi

    January 31, 2015 at 11:45 am

    @AnonymousYou can use any fish, i used a fish called terachi, not sure about the english name.

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  3. Anonymous

    February 1, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    I'm drooling seeing these pics of fish curry..

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  4. Anonymous

    February 1, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    I'm drooling after seeing the pics of ur fish curry… I do the same way..

    Reply
  5. Anonymous

    April 14, 2015 at 8:42 am

    Arthi, could you post the recipe for Andhra sweet pootharekulu

    Mary

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  6. Anonymous

    April 15, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    Day before yesterday, I tried and it came out well. Thanks for step by step pictures

    Reply
  7. Anonymous

    March 22, 2016 at 6:53 am

    The quantity prescribed is for 1/2 kg or 1 kg fish

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  8. Aarthi

    March 29, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    @Anonymousit is half kg

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  9. Unknown

    May 8, 2016 at 7:35 am

    Really it tasted so nice …my hubby liked it more

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  10. Anonymous

    May 25, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    All your recipes are excellent!! Thank you!

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  11. Unknown

    November 4, 2016 at 8:29 am

    If I cook this and leave it out overnight Wil it become bad by the next day noon..if I don't keep it in fridge

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  12. Suganya Bharathi

    July 17, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    Tried this…. 😃 It was really very tasty… Bookmarked.. This is one of my favourite dish to do… Thanks for sharing this recipe.

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  13. Lavany

    October 28, 2017 at 6:45 pm

    Made this today with cod fish.. super yummy.. thanks

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  14. Rama

    November 5, 2017 at 3:23 am

    Came out very well 😍 😊

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  15. Vo

    November 22, 2017 at 4:59 am

    Tried this today. It came out super yummy

    Reply
  16. Virgie

    November 26, 2017 at 7:43 am

    Tried this…turned out very yummy. Even my son who usually doesn’t like fish curry loved it. Thanks, Aarthi

    Reply
  17. ifa umar

    January 24, 2018 at 6:47 am

    you recipes are very tasty and very helpfull…

    Reply
  18. ambika

    June 4, 2018 at 6:01 am

    I tried yesterday. Came out very well. Thank u sooo much

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  19. Uma J Janu

    June 14, 2018 at 11:34 am

    I tried it today in clay pot. It came out superb. Thank you for posting such a good recipe……..

    Reply
  20. Durai

    May 10, 2019 at 7:36 am

    Hi,Can you make the receipe without the coconut milk, because that is original fish curry.

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  21. Juhi

    June 25, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    Love fish, and this looks delicious! Will definitely try it out. Thank you for sharing this recipe!

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