Kerala Fish Curry Recipes - How to Cook &
Prepare - Traditional Malayalam Old Time Fish Meen Curry Recipies Kerala
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Kerala
Breakfast Recipes: Kerala Breakfast Recipes are very healthy
with no fat contents .The famous Breakfast Recipes are Idli ,Dosa Puttu
,Idiyappam etc
The Speciality of kerala recipes is that these recipes have approved by
the Ayurveda Sysyem fo its naturality
"Those People who eat balanced diet
in a limited quantity do not require any medicine .They are their own
physicians .They clean all the body systems by this action till the last
day of their life "- An old
Indian Verse
Ingredients
Tamarind(Puli) - 25 gm (1 oz)
Prawns(Chemmeen) - 450 g (1 lb)
(peeled)
Grated coconut - 50 g (2 oz)
Water - 400 ml (14 fl oz)
Creamed coconut - 25 g (1 oz)
Frozen peas - 100g (4 oz)
Curry leaves - 4 - 5 nos
Green chilly - 1 no
(deseeded and cut into half)
Fresh ginger root - 40 g (1.5 oz) (peeled and finely chopped or about
1 x 5 ml (1 tsp) ground ginger
Tomato - 2 nos
(skinned and diced)
Ghee - 25 g (1 oz)
or
Oil - 2 x 15 ml (2 Tbsp)
Fenugreek seeds(Uluva) - 1 x 5 ml (1 tsp)
Coriander seeds - 2 x 5 ml (2 tsp)
Whole red chillies(small) - 2 nos
(optional)
Salt - As reqd
Onion(large) - 1 no
(peeled and chopped) Preparation Method
1)Soak the tamarind pods in a teacup of hot water for 10 - 15 mins and
extract the pulp.
2)Rinse the prawns and drain well.
3)Put the desiccated coconut in a bowl with 300 ml/0.5 pint of the water
and leave for 10 mins.
4)Blend the desiccated coconut with the soaking liquid and strain to
get a creamy milk. Set the leftover pulp on one side.
5)Place the creamy milk in a saucepan.
6)Add the creamed coconut, peas, curry leaves, green chilly, ginger,
tomatoes and tamarind pulp.
7)Cover and allow to simmer for 10 - 15 mins.
8)Heat 1 x 5 ml spoon/1 tsp of the ghee or oil in a separate pan.
9)Gently fry the fenugreek seeds, coriander and red chillies, until the
fenugreek turns light brown.
:- Do not let the mixture burn and darken.
10)Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
11)Blend this mixture with the reserved coconut pulp and the remaining
water to make a fine paste.
12)Heat a further 1 x 15 ml/1 Tbsp of the ghee or oil.
13)Fry the prawns, until dry.
14)Add the blended paste and gently fry for 5 - 6 mins.
15)Transfer and stir this into the simmering coconut milk mixture.
16)Add salt.
17)Simmer, covered, for 15 - 20 mins.
18)Before serving, fry the onion in the remaining ghee or oil and spoon
it over the prawn curry.
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