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Meen Vattichathu

Easy South Kerala recipe
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 kg Any small fish preferably natholi, mathi, chemmeen etc
  • 2 nos Onion chopped
  • 12 cloves Garlic chopped
  • 1 inch Ginger chopped
  • 1/2 tsp Chilly powder
  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  • Salt As reqd
  • 4 pieces Coccum soaked in salt water for 1/2 hour, Kudampuli
  • 8 nos Green chillies slit
  • Curry leaves Few
  • 2 cups Coconut grated
  • 1 tbsp Coconut oil

Instructions
 

  • Clean and put fish in a pan(man chatti preferred).
  • Add chopped onion, ginger, garlic, chilly powder, turmeric powder, salt, kudampuli, 1/2 cup water and allow to boil for 10 minutes.
  • Meanwhile roughly grind coconut with green chillies and curry leaves without adding water(Do not grind too much, only for crushing green chilly).
  • Mix this with fish and allow to boil for 5 minutes.
  • Remove from the stove and pour coconut oil and more curry leaves. Mix again and cover it for 5 minutes. Now it ready to be served.
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