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Meen Vevichathu Easy

Panicker`s meen curry
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Prep Time 40 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 250 gms King Fish washed and sliced into medium pieces
  • 3 tsp Chilli kashmiri powder
  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder soak turmeric and chilly powder in enough hot water to make a paste
  • 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
  • 1 tsp Mustard seeds
  • 4 nos Onion finely sliced, small size
  • 3 cloves Garlic chopped fine
  • 1/2 tbsp Ginger finely chopped
  • 2 pieces Kudam Puli soak in hot water just enough to cover it.
  • 4 tbsp Coconut oil
  • 3 stems Curry leaves
  • Salt as reqd
  • Water enough to cover the fish

Instructions
 

  • Heat 2 tbsp of coconut oil in a clay / mud chatti till smoking.
  • Add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds, let it crackle and the fenugreek seeds turn dark brown.
  • Stir in chopped onions, few curry leaves, sautT for 2 minutes add ginger and garlic and continue to fry.( about 2 minutes)
  • Transfer the chilly paste to the pot and fry till the oil floats on top of the masala and you get the fresh aroma of masala.
  • Add puli water to the masala followed by 2 cups (approximate to cover the fish) water. 6)Allow the water to boil briskly, put in fish pieces and then salt and close with a lid.
  • Take care not to stir with a spoon.
  • Pick the chatti and give a gentle to and fro motion.
  • The fish is cooked when the oil floats on top and the gravy is thick.
  • :- Serve hot!!!
  • :- This dish is best prepared in a chatti using firewood. The gravy tastes better the next day. Let the fish remain in the same pot.The puli should be of good quality
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