Fish / meen kuzhambu

Name: Fish / meen kuzhambu
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: En
Ingredients: 1/2 Kg Fish; 6 Small onion (6 to 7 Nos); 1/2 Cup Big Onion (Chopped); 1/2 Cup Tomato (Chopped); 2 Coconut (2 to 3 tblsp); 1 tblsp Chilli Powder; 2 tblsp Corrainder Powder; 2 Oil (2 to 3 tblsp); 1 tsp Mustard; 3 Garlic (3 to 4 cloves); 8 Onion (8 to 10 Nos); 8 Curry Leaves (8 to 10 Nos); 2 Tomato (2 to 3 tblsp ; Chopped); 1 Cup Tamarind Juice; Chilli Powder (As per taste); 2 tsp Turmeric Powder; Salt (As per taste)

Main Dish

Easy

35 min

Fish Kuzhambu a favorite dish for many, the taste of it increases day by day.Fish Fry and Fish Kuzhambu are my DH's most favorite items.He enjoys its taste in each and every spoonful. Last weekend I prepared both Fish Kuzhambu and Fish Fry, as usual he liked it very much and I am soo happy :). I prepared this with Sill Fish ( English : Herring, Tamil: Nunalai, Koimeen, Malayalam: Kannan Mathi, Hindi: Hilsa, Bhing) you can use the same procedure for all other fishes.

Preparation

Preparation15 min

Cook time20 min

Marinate fish with salt, turmeric, chilli powder ( each one tsp) for 10 to 20 minutes.
Heat 1 tblsp oil in a pan and add ingredients listed under to grind one by one. Let it cool for sometime and grind the mixture. Keep it aside.
Heat 2 tblsp oil in a pan, add mustard seeds once it splutters a add onions and curry leaves saute it till onions become translucent, then add tomato and saute it for 3 to 4 minutes.
Then add ground paste and saute it till the oil oozes out, add tamarind juice to it and mix well.
Add required amount of water, if you want the gravy to be little watery, also add chilli powder,salt as per taste and add 2 tsp on turmeric powder to it and mix well. Let it cook for 10 minutes till the oil oozes out.
Add marinated fish to the gravy, close the lid of the pan, In-between mix the gravy very gently and cook for another five minutes.
Gently take out all the cooked fishes using spatula and place it in the bowl, then pour the fish gravy into the bowl.( This prevents the fish from breaking down into pieces). Serve it Hot.