This is again my mother in laws recipe. I started having it after marriage. Now my little one also loves it so much that I prepare it every week at home.

Fish Mappas Recipe

Ingredients:

• Fish – 500g cut into medium pieces
• Cardamom – 4
• Cloves – 3
• Cinnamon – 1” stick
• Onion – 2 (finely sliced)
• Ginger  garlic paste – 3 tsp
• Tomato – 2
• Green chilli – 3
• Turmeric powder – ½  tsp
• Pepper powder – ¾ – 1 tsp
• Thin coconut milk – 1 ¼  cup
• Thick coconut milk – ¾ cup
• Curry leaves – few
• Oil
• Salt

 

Method:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Heat oil in a pan and add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon and saute for 2 min
• Add sliced onion and curry leaves and cook till onion becomes golden brown in color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Add green chilli, ginger garlic paste and cook for 2-3 min.
• Add turmeric and pepper powder, salt and cook for 2-3 min.
• Add chopped tomato and cook for 2 min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Add thin coconut milk  and wait till it starts boiling.
• Add fish pieces and cook with the pan covered in low-medium heat till fish is cooked (Swirl the pan in between)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Once fish is cooked add thick coconut milk
• Cook for another 4-5 min in low flame. Switch of the stove.
•  Pour 1 tsp of ghee over the curry prepared. Keep the pan closed for some time and serve hot with Palappam

 

 

 

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