Indian Fish Currychettinad Fish Curry Recipes

FISH CURRY | INDIAN FISH MASALA

Steps:

• Marinate fish with ½ tbsp ginger garlic paste, ⅛ tsp turmeric, ¼ tsp red chilli powder & ¼ tsp salt.
• On a flat fry pan, heat 1 tsp oil. Fry fish pieces slightly until the raw smell goes away just for 2 to 3 mins on both sides. You can also sear the fish. Keep this aside. (refer picture below)
• Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pot and add cumin. When they sputter, add onions and saute until lightly golden.
• Next add ginger garlic paste and saute for 30 seconds. Add tomatoes & ½ tsp salt. Saute until tomatoes turn soft and mushy.
• Next add coconut, fennel seeds (optional), red chili powder & turmeric. Fry until the mixture turns fragrant & raw smell has gone away.
• Cool this & add to a blender jar along with 2 to 4 tbsps water. Blend to a smooth or coarse paste to suit your liking. (refer notes). You can also use a immersion blender. Keep this aside.
• Add 1 tbsp more oil to the same pot used earlier. Heat up on a low flame.
• When the oil turns slightly hot, add curry leaves & green chilies.
• When they splutter, add the ground onion tomato paste and garam masala. Fry until the mixture smells good. If you feel it is not hot enough for your taste, then add more chilli powder at this stage & saute.
• Pour 1 ¼ to 1½ cup water. Mix and bring it to a boil. Cook until you see traces of oil on the surface and the gravy thickens a bit.
• Gently slide the fish pieces and cook covered on a medium heat.
• Carefully flip or turn the pieces to the other side after 3 to 4 mins.
• Cook until the fish pieces bulge a bit. This is the indication they are cooked completely. Taste the curry and add more salt if needed.
• Optionally garnish fish curry with coriander leaves if desired.

INDIAN FISH CURRY

Steps:

• Mix the mustard, pepper, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 2 tablespoons of canola oil in a shallow bowl. Add the fish fillets, turning to coat. Marinate the fish in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• Combine the onion, garlic, ginger, and cashews in a blender or food processor and pulse until the mixture forms a paste.
• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat 1 tablespoon of canola oil in a skillet over medium-low heat. Stir in the prepared paste; cook and stir for a minute or two. Add the cayenne pepper, turmeric, cumin, coriander, 1 teaspoon salt, and sugar. Cook and stir for an additional five minutes. Stir in the chopped tomato and vegetable broth.
• Arrange the fish fillets in a baking dish, discarding any extra marinade. Top the fish with the sauce, cover the baking dish, and bake in the preheated oven until the fish flakes easily with a fork, about 30 minutes. Garnish with chopped cilantro.

FISH CURRY

Steps:

• In a grinder grind the onions, ginger, 2 bay leaves, red chili, mustard seeds, cumin seed all together.
• Preserve some cut pieces 1 cup) of onion.
• Cut small pieces of tomatoes.
• Make small pieces of fish fillets, about 3 inches in length.
• Clean them properly if you are using the whole fish and make it into small pieces.
• Take a big plate, put the fish in it and sprinkle 2 teaspoon of salt, two teaspoon of turmeric powder and the garlic paste.
• Mix all of them properly.
• Allow to marinate for 1/2 hour.
• Take a pan or a wok (preferable), heat it and put oil to deep fry the fish.
• Once the oil is much hotter, fry the fish, 3-4 pieces at a time, 3-4 minutes on each side.
• Keep all of them in a separate plate.
• When all the pieces are fried, clean all the black residues from the oil in the wok with the spatula and put 2 tablespoon of fresh oil in the it.
• Then put a pinch of cumin seed, a pinch of mustard seed, 2 red chili, 2 bay leaves, a pinch of aniseed (all together is called panch-phoran) and allow them to splutter.
• Then put the cut onion pieces and allow it to just a little brown.
• Then put all the ground paste,tomatoes,left over turmeric powder and salt to taste.
• Keep stirring it until the paste becomes a little brown (it takes around 10 minutes).
• You can also identify it by looking at the wok, that the paste will start leaving the oil and paste will now no more stick on the wok.
• The paste is now perfectly fried.
• Now pour 3 cups of water to it, or as much thick gravy you want.
• Once the gravy comes to boil, start dropping the fried fish pieces and allow to boil for 15 minutes.
• Switch off the gas.
• Use coriander leaf for garnishing.
• This dish should be served with fresh steamed rice and squeeze some lime some juice on top.

THAI FISH CURRY

Steps:

• Heat oil in large skillet or wok; add curry paste, garlic, lime leaves, and galanga; stir-fry for 1 minute or until mixture becomes very fragrant.
• Add onions, chiles, and peppers and stir-fry until onions are slightly tender.
• Add vegetable broth, sake wine, shrimp sauce, coconut milk, lemongrass and bring to a boil.
• Add the fish cubes and tomato quarters, then cover, and simmer for 6-8 minutes or until fish is firm and cooked.
• Stir together cornstarch into water to make a slurry and add to wok; stir until curry is thickened; remove kaffir leaves before serving if desired.
• Add the juice of the lime and stir in, then sprinkle with chopped fresh cilantro just before serving.
• Serve with steamed jasmine rice, if desired.

SOUTH INDIAN FISH CURRY

Steps:

• Wash and clean the fish.
• Mix the chili powder, turmeric and coriander powder with a few drops of water to make a thick paste.
• In a shallow pan, heat the oil.
• Add the mustard seeds and the fenugreek seeds and sauté till they splutter.
• Add the shallots and fry till golden brown.
• Add the spices paste and fry for 2 minutes.
• Add 1 cup water and tamarind and bring to boil.
• Add the fish pieces, add curry leaves and sprinkle asafetida from the top.
• Cook for 20- 25 minutes.
• Serve with rice.

SARDINE FISH CURRY / KERALA STYLE MATHI CURRY / CHAALA CURRY

Steps:

• Clean Gambooge in clear running water and soak it in little warm water minimum for half an hour. Keep it aside. Cut all the fins and scales of sardines with a knife, rub it with little salt in an earthen ware and clean them in clear running water. Keep it aside. Take a small bowl and all the spice powders and pour little coconut oil or little warm water to form a paste. Grind it in a mixer and keep it aside.
• Heat coconut oil in an clay cooking pot / manchatti. Add mustard seeds. When it starts crackling, add the fenugreek seeds. Then add the dry red chilli and sauté it. When these seeds get slightly brown in clour, add the finely chopped shallots and one spring of curry leaves. Shallots have to get the golden colour. Then add chopped ginger and garlic followed by green chillies. Sauté it for few seconds till green chillies changes its colour and garlic gets light yellow colour. Add in the tomato piece and sauté it for few seconds.
• Now add the ground spice powders paste you made in advance. Sauté it well till you get a nice aroma and the oil starts separating from the pan. Add the water, salt and the other curry leaves. Bring it to a boil.
• When it started boiling add the cleaned sardine pieces. Cover the vessel with its lid and simmer the stove. Let it cook for 10 minutes or until the fish is cooked and oil starts floating. If you want to reduce the gravy, cook for few more minutes keeping its lid removed.
• Your Sardine Fish Curry / Keralas Mathi Curryis ready to serve.
• Serve it with hot rice or kappa vevichathu. It goes well with Kappa Vevichathu and Appam or Kallappam.