Fish Podimas

Ingredients:
Fish:2 fillets
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder:a pinch
Chilli powder:1/2 tspn
Water:1/2 cup
Onion:1 large(chopped)
Tomato:1 medium(chopped)
Chopped ginger:1 tspn
Chopped garlic:1 tspn
Green chilli (chopped):2 no
Cloves:2 no
Cinnamon:1/2 inch stick
Coriander powder:1 tspn
Chilli powder:1/2 tspn
Oil:2 tspn
Mustard seeds:1 tspn
Cumin:1 tspn
Curry leaves
Grated coconut:1/2 cup

Cut the fish into cubes.Marinate the fish pieces with turmeric powder,chilli powder,salt for 15 minutes.Cook this marinated fish in 1/2 cup water until water gets evaporated and fish is done.Heat oil in another pan and sputter mustard seeds.Add cumin and curry leaves.Saute for 30 seconds and add cinnamon,clove,ginger,garlic,green chilli.Saute for some time and add chopped onion.Fry until brown and add tomato.Add coriander powder and chilli powder.Saute until tomato is cooked and then add the cooked fish.Add grated coconut and mix well.Remove from the flame.Serve hot with rice or chappathi.

Meen Porichathu

Ingredients:
Fish:1/2 kg
Chilli powder:2 tspn
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder:a pinch
Oil:2 tspn

Combine chilli powder,turmeric powder and salt and add little amount of water to make it a paste.Marinate the fish with the paste and keep aside for 30 minutes.Fry in the oil all sides gets cooked properly.Drain out the oil with a tissue paper and serve warm.

Malabar Meen Curry

Ingredients:
Fish:1/2 kg(cut into medium pieces)
Grated coconut:3/4 cup
Chilli powder:2 tspn
Turmeric powder:1 pinch
Shallots:2
Fennel seeds:1/2 tspn
Onion:1/4 of medium sized(thinly sliced)
Kudampuli:3 to 4
Tomato:1/2 medium(chopped)
Ginger:a small piece (chopped)
Garlic:1 clove(split into half)
Salt to taste
Oil:2tspn
Mustard seeds:1 tspn
Fenugreek seeds:1/2 tspn
curry leaves

Soak kudampuli in water and keep aside.Combine coconut,chilli powder,turmeric powder,fennel seeds and shallots and grind them to a paste.Heat a deep pan and pour the paste into the pan.Add ginger,garlic, onion and tomato.Add some water(1/4 cup)Bring to boil.Simmer the flame and cover the lid and cook till the raw smell goes.Add kodampuli with water into the pan and again bring to boil.Add the fish pieces and bring to boil.Cover the lid and cook 15 minutes more simmering the flame.Remove the pan from the stove and season the curry with mustard seeds,curry leaves,fenugreek seeds in oil.Add fried onion(cut into very small pieces)(optional).Serve with rice or pathiri.

Varutharacha Meen curry

Ingredients:
Fish:1/2 kg
Onion:1/2 of medium sized(chopped)
Mustard seeds:1 tspn
Curry leaves
Oil:1 tbspn
Salt to taste
Kodampuli:3 to 4

For roasting
Grated coconut:1/2 cup
fennel seeds:1/2 tspn
Shallots:2 to 3
Chilli powder:1 to 1 1/2 tspn
Coriander powder:2 tspn
Garlic:3 to 4 cloves(chopped)
Oil

Soak kodampuli in water and keep it aside.Clean and cut the fish into medium pieces.Heat oil in a pan and add garlic and coconut and stir continuously.When the color of coconut changes add shallots and fennel seeds.Fry until coconut turns brown.Add chilli powder and coriander powder and fry for a minute and remove from the stove.Remember to stir continuously because it might get burnt easily.Allow it to cool and grind to paste.Pour this paste into a deep pan and add the kodampuli along with water.Add salt and let it boil.Simmer the flame and keep for some time.Add the fish pieces.Cover it with a lid.When the fish gets cooked remove from stove.Season the curry with mustard seeds,curry leaves and fried onion.Serve with rice.

Fish Fingers

Ingredients:
Tilapia fillets:2 fillets(each cut into 4)
Ginger garlic paste:1tspn
Coriander powder:1 tspn
Chilli powder:1 tbspn
Turmeric powder: a pinch
Garam masala:1/4 tspn
Salt to taste
1 beated egg
pepper powder:1/4 tspn
Bread crumbs
Oil for frying
Marinate the fish with ginger garlic paste,coriander powder,chilli powder,garam masala,salt and turmeric powder.Refrigerate it for 1 hour.Beat the egg and add pepper powder and salt.Dip the marinated fish in the egg and coat both sides of the fish with the bread crumbs.For thick coating again dip the fish in egg and then bread crumbs.Shallow fry or deep fry the fish until brown.Serve hot with ketchup or ranch.