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Kerala restaurant style fish curry recipe | Choora (Tuna) fish curry

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Kerala Restaurant Style Fish Curry - Choora curry - Tuna curry - Kera curry

We can make Kerala style fish curry in many ways, with or without coconut. This is a bright red color, tangy restaurant style fish curry made with coconut milk. We can use finely ground coconut paste also for this fish curry.

I’ve already shared many recipes in this blog with and without coconut.

Kerala Style Fish Curry | Mulakarach Meen Curry | Mulakitta Meen Curry

Kottayam style fish curry | Kerala style fish curry | Meen mulakittathu | Meen vevichathu | Meen curry recipe

Notes

  1. Either use finely ground coconut paste (Grind coconut with 2 1/2 to 3 cups water) or coconut milk. To make the coconut milk – Grind the coconut with 2 1/2 to 3 cups of water and  squeeze out the coconut milk. No need to separate first and second extract of coconut milk. Such way, coconut milk won’t split while making the fish curry.
  2. Make this fish curry in the evening, keep overnight and serve next day.
  3. This curry can be keep outside for 2 days if handled properly like boil the curry in the morning and the evening and kept in a hygienic place without using wet spoons (if made in a clay pot).
  4. The fish curry gravy will be thickening over time.
  5. Use some pieces of tomato if you wish while making this fish curry.
  6. We are not using ginger and garlic in this recipe, still you can experiment by adding chopped ginger and/ or garlic.
  7. Clay pots are the best to make this fish curry.
  8. You can choose any type of fish to make this curry like  Tuna, Mackerel, King fish, Salmon, Cobia, River fishes etc.

Best combination

  1. Boiled Cassava (Kappa Vevichathu)
  2. Puttu
  3. Rice
  4. Dosa

Kerala restaurant style fish curry recipe | Choora (Tuna) fish curry

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Serves: 8 Prep Time: Cooking Time:

Ingredients

  • 1. Fish - 500 gms (Cut into small pieces
  • 2. Freshly grated coconut - 1 Cup (Or 3 Cups Coconut milk) - Refer notes
  • 3. Shallots (Chuvannulli) - 10 Nos (Sliced)
  • 4. Dried gamboge fruit (Kudampuli) - 4 Medium pieces
  • 5. Green chili (Pachamulak)- 2 Nos (Slitted)
  • 6. Curry leaves - 2 Sprigs
  • 7. Fenugreek powder (Uluva podi) - 1/4 Teaspoon
  • 8. Turmeric powder (Manjalpodi) - 1/2 Teaspoon
  • 9. Coriander powder (Mallipodi) - 1/2 Teaspoon
  • 10. Red chili powder (Mulakpodi) - 2 1/2 Tablespoon
  • 11. Coconut oil - 2 Tablespoon
  • 12. Salt - To taste

Instructions

1. Heat a Clay pot and add coconut oil.
2. When oil is heated up add shallots and salt. Saute till shallots are soft in medium flame.
3. Add dried gamboge fruit, green chilis and curry leaves and saute till fragrant.
4. Reduce the flame very low then add fenugreek powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and red chili powder one by one and saute till raw smell goes off. Don’t let it burn.
5. Add coconut milk and boil. When boiled,  add cleaned fish pieces and cook in medium flame for 10 minutes.
6. Reduce the flame to low and cook for 5 more minutes and switch off the flame.
7. Add a sprig of curry leaves and keep the pot half opened to let the oil separate on top.

 

 

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Kottayam style fish curry | Kerala style fish curry | Meen mulakittathu | Meen vevichathu | Meen curry recipe

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Kottayam style fish curry is a popular fish curry in Kerala. This fish curry became popular with the place named ‘Kottayam’. It’s a spicy tangy fish curry traditionally made in clay currypot. This type of Kottayam style fish curry is served in most of the Christian marriages in Kerala.

Kerala style fish curry especially Kottayam style fish curry should be prepared and kept in clay currypot to get more taste. This Kottayam style fish curry can be kept outside the fridge and will be edible even after 2-3 days if properly handled (See the notes).

Kudampuli – dried gambooge is the main flavouring ingredient of Kottayam style fish curry. Gambooge gives the tanginess to the fish curry. The fish curry tanginess can be adjusted with the amount of Kudampuli pieces added. I always prefer my Kottayam style fish curry to be spicy and tangy 😛

Best combination
– Kappa vevichathu (Tapioca)
– Rice + Moru curry/ Sambar/ Chammanthi/ Thoran

 

https://youtu.be/KP_ik3R9m40

 

Notes
Use clay curry pot for Kerala style fish curries. It will enhance the taste.
Use clay currypots in low-medium flame only. Too much heat will burn the curry and the currypot will be damaged easily.
Use a pinch of fenugreek seeds only.
Add 2 dry red chillies and 2 green chillies while suating the ginger and garlic (optional).
Use cashmiri chilli powder only or with normal red chilli powder. Cashmiri chilli powder is less spicy and it will amke fish curry gravy thick.
Add kudampuli/ dried gambooge pieces according to the sourness of the curry you want.
Soak gambooge in water for 15 minutes to let it soft.
Any fishes like tuna, king fish, sardine, mackeral etc can be sed to make this Kottayam style fish curry.
Do not add too much water or less water. So that the fish curry will become watery or become very dry.
Swirl the currypot or use spoon gently to avoid breaking fish pieces.
After cooking check the sourness of the fish curry. Remove a piece or two of gambooge if the curry is very tangy.
Cook and keep the curry in the clay currypot itself for more taste.
Boil the fish curry every morning and evening and do not use wet spoon. So that the fish curry will be good to eat till 3rd day.

Kottayam style fish curry | Kerala style fish curry | Meen mulakittathu | Meen vevichathu | Meen curry recipe

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Ingredients

  • 1. Mustard seeds - 1/2 Tsp
  • 2. Fenugreek seeds - A pinch
  • 3. Ginger - 2 Tbls - Julienned
  • 4. Garlic - 15 Cloves - Medium
  • 5. Shallots - 10 Nos - Sliced (Chuvannulli)
  • 6. Curry leaves - 5 Sprigs
  • 7. Turmeric powder - 1/4 Tsp
  • 8. Cashmiri red chilli powder - 1/4 Cup
  • 9. Fenugreek powder - 1/4 Tsp
  • 10. Dried gambooge - 4 Cloves (Kudampuli)
  • 11. Water - 500 ml
  • 12. Salt - To taste
  • 13. Hing powder - A pinch (optional)
  • 14. Coconut oil - 1/4 Cup

Instructions

  1. Heat coconut oil in a Manchatti/ Meenchatti (clay currypot).
  2. Swirl the currypot and spread the coconut oil inside the manchatti.
  3. Splutter mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds.
  4. Add ginger, garlic and shallots and saute till soft. Don’t let it brown.
  5. Add 3 sprigs of curry leaves.Saute it.
  6. Keep the flame low and add turmeric powder, chilli powder and fenugreek powder.
  7. Saute till oil separates.
  8. Add soaked gambooge pieces and saute it for 2 minutes.
  9. Add 500 ml boiling water.
  10. Add salt.
  11. Let the curry boil till oil seperates with the pan little open in a medium flame.
  12. Add fish pieces and cook. Keep the pan little open and in low-medium flame.
  13. Swirl the currypot occassionally to avoid burning the bottom.
  14. Add hing powder after 15 minutes. Cook again, pan little open for 5 more minutes.
  15. Add 2 prigs curry leaves and switch off the flame.
  16. Keep the curry pan little open for 15 more minutes and serve.

 

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Mathi/ Chaala Thakkali Curry | Kerala Style Sardine Tomato Curry

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Mathi/ Chaala Thakkali curry is a Kerala style sardine fish preparation with tomato in coconut paste. Mathi/ Chaala can be prepared in many ways with or without coconut. This recipe is very suited for Mathi/ Chaala than any other fishes. We can keep the curry 1 day and 1 night without refrigerating if we prepare this Mathi/ Chaala curry in earthen utensil and boil morning and evening. But in my opinion this curry is tastier when we eat right after the cooking. 🙂

The truth is I love the tomatoes in this fish curry than the fish pieces. 🙂

Notes

  1. Mix the fish curry gently while cooking else the fish pieces will fall apart.
  2. Adjust the sourness with the amount of gamboge and tomato added.

Best combination

  • Rice + Moru Curry + Mathi/ Chaala Thakkali Curry
  • Kappa/ Chakka Vevichathu (Cooked Tapioca/ Raw Jackfruit)  + Mathi/ Chaala Thakkali Curry

https://youtu.be/LBzKccbDT74

Mathi/ Chaala Thakkali Curry | Kerala Style Sardine Tomato Curry Recipe

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Serves: 6 Cooking Time:

Ingredients

  • 1. Sardine – 12 No
  • 2. Coconut (scraped) – 1 Cup
  • 3. Turmeric powder – 1 Pinch
  • 4. Red chilli powder – 1 Tablespoon
  • 5. Coriander powder – ½ Tablespoon
  • 6. Fenugreek seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
  • 7. Shallots – 6 Nos
  • 8. Green chilli (slitted) – 4 Nos
  • 9. Dried gamboge fruit – 1 Piece
  • 10. Curry leaves – 4 Stems
  • 11. Water - 2 Cups

Instructions

  1. Soak teared dried gamboge fruit in hot water for sometime.
  2. Make a smooth paste of ingredients 2 – 7 with enough water.
  3. Mix the coconut paste with enough water.
  4. Then add soaked gamboge, curry leaves, slitted green chillis and salt to the above mix.
  5. Boil the coconut gravy in a pan, preferably an earthen pot.
  6. Add tomato and cut fish pieces when the gravy is boiling.
  7. Keep the pan covered and cook in low flame. Gently mix the fish curry occasionally.
  8. Cook for about 10 minutes and oil separates from the curry.
  9. Add some more curry leaves in the prepared fish curry, gently mix and switch off the flame.
  10. Keep it covered for sometime and serve hot with rice.

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