Traditional Goan Fish Curry

Traditional Goan Fish Curry

Ingredients

Prawns/ Mackrels 500 grams
Onion (payaz), sliced 1 big
Garlic (lahsan), chopped 1 table spoon
Green chillies (hari mirch) 4
Coconut (grated) 3 cups
Coriander seeds (dhaniya) 2 table spoons
Cumin seeds (jeera) 1 tea spoon
Whole red chillies (lal mirch) 2-3
Peppercorns (kali mirch) 6-7
Turmeric powder (haldi) ½ tea spoon
Tamarind pulp (Imli) 2 table spoons
Tefla 3-4

Instructions

  1. Clean and wash fish.
  2. Marinate it with salt, turmeric powder, a bit of chopped garlic and chopped green chillies.
  3. Grind together coconut, coriander, cumin seeds, whole red chilli, pepper corns, and stand it for 10 minutes.
  4. Add ½ cup of warm water in the ground mixture and squeeze the coconut through a muslin cloth so as to extract all milk.
  5. Simmer the milk over a slow flame till it thickens.
  6. In another pan heat oil and add sliced onion and garlic and sauté it for 3-4 minutes.
  7. Add marinated fish, turmeric powder and stir fry for a minute.
  8. Now pour the prepared coconut milk, tamarind pulp, salt and tefla and simmer till the curry is reduced in half and fish is cooked.
  9. Serve this with steamed rice.

Tip

  • Tefla- It is berry that is native to Goa and is valued because it gives a strong aromatic and characteristic flavour to the fish curry.

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