Name: Mathi Peera Fry
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1/2 kg Sardine/Mathi; 1 cup Coconut (grated); 6 nos Shallots (Kunjulli); 3 nos Green chillies; 1 tsp Turmeric powder; 2 tsp Chilly powder; 1 tsp Coriander powder; Curry leaves (Few); 1 small Ginger; Coconut oil (As reqd); 1 tsp Mustard seeds; Salt (As reqd)

Mathi Peera Fry

A tasty fish dish with coconut and other spices

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Prep Time 30 mins

Total Time 30 mins

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1/2 kg Sardine/Mathi
1 cup Coconut grated
6 nos Shallots Kunjulli
3 nos Green chillies
1 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tsp Chilly powder
1 tsp Coriander powder
Curry leaves Few
1 small Ginger
Coconut oil As reqd
1 tsp Mustard seeds
Salt As reqd

Instructions

For preparing mathi peera fry, first clean fish and make slits. Crush roughly coconut, shallots, green chillies, chilly powder, coriander powder, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and curry leaves. Keep aside.
Sprinkle little salt and 1/2 tsp turmeric on the fish pieces and shallow fry in mann chatti.
Take out the fish and keep aside.
In the same chatti, pour little oil and splutter mustard seeds. Add the crushed coconut mixture and fry.
Add the fish pieces and cover it with lid and cook for sometime.
When done remove from flame and pour little oil on top.
Mathi peera fry is ready.