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Village Fish Curry

Nadan fish curry
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Tamil
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb King fish
  • 8 - Pearl onion chopped
  • 2 nos Tomato chopped
  • 7 - Green chillies chopped
  • 5 - Curry leaves
  • Coriander leaves As reqd
  • 7 nos Garlic pods
  • 2 tbsp Chilly powder
  • 2 tbsp Tamarind paste Puli
  • 11-12 nos Black gram Uzhunnuparippu
  • 1 tsp Mustard seeds
  • 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds Uluva
  • 4 - Black pepper
  • 1 cup Coconut milk
  • Salt As reqd
  • 3 tbsp Oil

Instructions
 

  • Heat oil in a non stick pan.
  • Add tomatoes and saute it for a minute.
  • Take a vessel and add red chilly powder, tamarind paste, salt and water and stir it well.
  • Remove the tomatoes from the oil and put it in the above vessel.
  • Heat up the same pan used for frying tomatoes.
  • Splutter mustard seeds.
  • Add black pepper, fenugreek seeds and black gram and fry, till the fenugreek starts to emit a nice aroma.
  • Add curry leaves, pearl onions, garlic and green chillies.
  • Add salt and saute, till they become brown in colour.
  • Add coriander leaves.
  • Add the tamarind paste and tomatoes and allow to boil for 5 mins.
  • Add pieces of fish and allow it to boil.
  • Cook, till the fish is well cooked.
  • Add the coconut milk and heat it for 3 mins.
  • Switch off the flame.
  • :- Add salt, if needed.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.
  • :- Serve with rice.
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