கிராமத்து மீன் குழம்பு / Traditional Village fish Curry

Fish Curry - This is the first Non veg dish i learnt from my mom :) It's an awesome aromatic mouth watering dish for sure. Try this meen kuzhambu with easy step by step pics . Happy Cooking !! :)


Serves : 5 

Ingredients 

Fish (any kind as per your wish )
Green Chillies - 6 straightly chopped
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbspn full
Chopped onion - 2
Chopped Tomato - 2
Coriander leaves & curry leaves chopped - 1 cup
Fenugreek - 1 tspn
Sombu podi / Fennel Seed Powder - 1 tspn
Vadagam - 1 tbspn (optional )
Tamarind - 3 lemon sized 
Chilli powder - 4 tbspn full ( here i used homemade chilly powder so i don't use coriander powder separately . If you don't have homemade chilly powder then , use 2 spn pure chilly powder & 3 spn coriander powder with it ) 
Turmeric powder - 1/2 spn
Mango - 5 chopped 
Oil - 3 to 4 tbspn.
Salt to taste

Method 

Clean fish.


Soak tamarind and get the filtered tamarind water of 2 to 3 cups



Heat pan with oil , drop mustard , Fenugreek 1 spn .
Add coriander & curry leaves with chopped green chillies.
Add Onion and ginger garlic paste.
Add vadagam.
Saute until onion is transparent.



Add Tomatoes & saute for two mins.




Add tamarind water with required salt & spices turmeric , chilly powder & fennel seed powder (1 tspn )
Add water if necessary ( as per your consistency level ) but do remember that gravy gets thick stage by stage so add enough water to require consistency level you desire.





Keep it in low flame . Once this gravy started to boil add mangoes.




After 5 mins.Add fish finally  ( don't stir continuously , fish may get crushed in gravy ). keep it in low flame & Cook for 7 - 10 mins.



Check for salt.

Serve with hot rice  & with Big Smile :)

Note : Esply For those who use pure chilly powder - If you want to thick the gravy , you can add grinded coconut cumin paste 5 mins before switching off the stove. 
Homemade chilly powder users also can use this coconut cumin paste for better taste :)

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