Nadan Chatty Meen Curry(Fish Curry -- Kerala) Preparation
Ingredients
1.Fish -- Neimeen/Thedu (Seer Fish/Cat fish) -- Freshly cut in to pieces -- 8--10
2.Red chilli powder -- 3 tablespoon
3.Coriander powder --2 tablespoon
3.Turmeruic powder -- 1 teaspoon
4.Green chili -- 2 num
5.Tomato -- 1 num
6.Kudam-puli (Gamboge/Garcinia Cambogia)-- 1
7.Musturd seeds -- 1/2 teaspoon
8.Small Onion -- 1/2 teaspon
9.Oil -- 1 tablespoon
10.Garlic -- 6-7 num
11.Ginger -- 3/4 teaspoon
12.Curry Leaves -- 6-7
13.Water -- 3 glass
14.Salt -- Add according to taste.
Preparation
1.Mix 3 tb red chilli + 2 tb corriander + 1 tsp turmeric powder well and heat it for 1or 1/2 min in a pan in low flame until it turns brown.Don't cook this mix for a long time as it destroys the taste.
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3.Mix the other half portion of above cooked mix, salt and 3 glass of water and pour in to Meen Chatty/ Earthern Pot and heat it until it boils.
4.Pour a litle bit of oil in to a frying pan and cook the fish in it for sometime(5-6 mins).Don't deep fry the fish.Just fry both sides of the fish.
5. Add sliced Ginger/Garlic/Kudampuli(Gamboge) in to the mix in Earthen pot.
6.Add the lightly cooked fish in to the Earthen pot, when the mixture in pot boils.
7. Add sliced tomato,Green chili, Curry leaves.
8.Add salt if needed.
8. Keep it for sometime until the it gets cooked.
9.Heat 1- tb of oil in a pan.Fry Sliced Small Onion.Add mustard seeds,let it splutter
10.Pour the mixture(9th) over the Fish Curry.
And Serve Hot,You can garnish the curry with big onion and tomato :-)
Tip : Do not stir with a spoon while cooking fish, as there is the likelihood of breaking the fish. Hold the Chatty/Earthen pot with both hands tilt it to mix the curry.
The curry tastes best with Kerala Rice and Cooked Tapioca :-)