Cut the fish into thin round pieces, clean and keep aside.
Grind together one cup chopped onions, garlic bulbs, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and poppy seeds to a fine paste.
Add the paste to the fish pieces and allow to marinate.
Take a deep bottomed pan, add oil and heat. Add the remaining cup of chopped onions and fry until brown.
Add tomato pieces, red chilly powder, turmeric powder and fry until tomato pieces become tender.
Now add the marinated fish pieces
along with the paste to the above.
Mix gently so that the fish pieces do not break down and at the same
time blend with other ingredients.
Fry for a few minutes, add enough
salt and water, mix again and allow
to simmer in medium flame until
the preparation is perfectly done.
Serve with rice.