Fish Curry

In India, fish curries are made in various styles and most famous ones are Spicy Kerala, Chettinad & Nellore. Today we are going to see how to make Nellore style Fish curry.  In this curry, fish is cooked in tamarind juice which will give you heavenly feeling when taken along with rice, ragi sangati, idli or dosa.

Fish Curry

Ingredients: Serve-4

• Fish - 1 kg
• Oil - 3/4 cup
• Mustard seeds - 2tspn
• Urad dhal -1tspn
• Jeera - 1tspn
• Pepper - 2tspn
• Curry leafs - Few
• Coriander leaves -Few
• Onion- 1(large size)
• Tomato- 2 (small size)
• Tamarind Juice - 4glass
• Turmeric powder- 1/2tspn
• Red chili powder - 5tspn (adjust to taste)
• Salt - 3tspn(adjust to taste)
• Fenugreek - 1tspn
• Coriander seeds - 1/2tspn

The following picture shows the step by step process for Fish Curry:

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Method:

1. First wash the fish with salt, turmeric powder and keep aside.
2. Take a pan, roast 1tspn Mustered seeds, 1tspn fenugreek, 1/2tspn coriander seeds until they crackle in a medium flame. Make a powder in mixy and keep aside.(figure 1)
3.  In a mixy jar add 1/2tspn jeera, few curry leaves, 1tspn pepper, 1/2 onion and make a smooth paste with little water, keep aside.(figure 2 & 3)
4. Take 4 glass of tamarind juice in a bowl ensure that juice should be little thick shown in the figure.(figure 4)
5. In tamarind juice smash 1 tomato with hand and then add turmeric powder, redchili powder, salt, prepared paste in step 3.Taste the juice, if you feel like the taste is not as expected then add necessary ingredients to suit your taste and mix well. (figure 5, 6 & 7)
6. Take a big pan heat oil in medium flame, add 1tspn mustered seeds wait for crackle and then add 1tspn urad dhal, 1/2tspn jeera, few curry leaves. Saute for few seconds.
7. Add onion and saute until onions become soft. (figure 8)
8. Add tomato and saute until tomatoes are smashed. (figure 9)
9. Add Tamarind juice which is prepared in step 5 and mix well. Close with lid and cook until tamarind juice become thick.(figure 10 & 11)
10. After tamarind juice become thick then add fish and mix slowly. Close with lid and cook for 10 more mins or until fish is cooked. (figure 12 & 13)
11. Open the lid, add 1/2tspn powder prepared in step 2 and cook for 2 more mins. (figure 14 & 15)
12. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Awesome Fish Curry is ready to serve! 

Additional Tips:-

• In step 9, cook the tamarind juice until it becomes very thick so that if you add fish then curry will become little thin or else curry will become very thin like water.
• Wash the fish with turmeric powder and salt to overcome raw fish smell.