Recipes - Fish Caldeen
- Leera Sarita D'Souza
- Valencia/Kuwait
Fish Required:
½ kg. Fish (Pomfret, Halwa, Surmai or Prawns)
Ingredients :
1 coconut grated
1 ½ tsp cumin seeds
15 Peppercorns
3 tsps. coriander seeds
1 tsp. turmeric powder
4 green chillies slit
2 onions sliced
1 large tomato chopped
¼ cup rice (soaked for sometime)
2 tbsps. vinegar
4 tbsps. oil
1 sprig curry leaves
Salt to taste
Method :
Clean and slice the fish. Marinate the fish in a little salt and keep aside. Grind the Coconut, rice, cumin, coriander, peppercorns and turmeric with two cups of water. Extract thick milk from it and keep aside. Grind again adding 2 more cups of water and extract thin milk. Heat oil and put in the curry leaves. Add sliced onions and fry for sometime. Add the tomatoes and slit green chillies and fry for a minute. Add the sliced fish (wash off the salt from the fish before adding it to the pan) and fry well for about 3 minutes taking care that the fish does not break. Add the Vinegar, fry for a minute and then add the thin milk. Let it boil well till the fish is cooked. Finally add the thick milk, wait till it boils and remove from fire. The curry should be fairly thick. Serve with rice or khaboos.
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