Pepper Fish Curry
- 14
- June
- 2009
Ginger-Pepper Fish Curry:
Strong Spicy Fish Sauce. Ginger based Fish Curry. Pepper Fish Curry. Milagu Meen Kuzhambu. Miriyam Chappalu Pulusu. Inji Meen Kuzhambu.
This is my favourite ‘fishing spot’ in the neighbourhood! My team had a short fishing trip few months ago, got bit lucky!! Mississippi is famous for its catfish and its panfried catfish recipe. But, I totally did this in my way,today. As my crew here are all big ‘maniacs’ for ‘hot food’! Can you beleive it!!
I have a regular cooking class team here, who are fond of extra-spicy Indian food. Guess, I almost changed their ‘bland tongue’! Few of my students started complaining that they are gaining weight coz’ of my food!! There is one hell of my buddy here, who wants more ‘spice’ in his food. And my friend Kyle adds almost 1/4 cup of Thai chilies (Bird’s eye red peppers)to 1 cup of rice these days!! Dennis, adds chili powder to his breakfast omlette! Kathyrn says, she fixes ‘hot chicken tikka and tandoori’ in old a fashioned way…all chili powder, absolutely no color!! Samantha changed her ‘tomato ketchup’ with ‘Lousiana hot sauce’! Americans started craving for ‘hot food’ these days. Whooo!!!
Ingredients:
Fish 1-2 or many!!
Purple onion 1 small chopped
Country tomato 1 finely chopped
Garlic 7-9 cloves semi crushed
Ginger 3-4″ grated
Peppercorns 2 spoons – semi crushed
Salt
Turmeric 1/4 spoon
Chili powder 1/2 spoon
Tamarind paste 1 spoon
Sesame oil few spoons
Mustard, cumin, asafoetida – 1/4 spoon
Dry chilies & curry leaves few.
Method:
In a wide wok, heat oil. Fry fish for fw minutes on both the sides, till the skin turns crisp slightly and then set aside.
In the same oil, heat the remaining oil. add tempering spices and followed by onion, garlic and tomatoes…fry real good, maybe until tomatoes wilt and raw odour of onions and garlic leave the pan.
Now, add salt, turmeric, chili, ginger and peppercorns to it. Continue frying over high heat till fragrant.
Add tamarind paste and 1 cup of water to it. Bring this to sauce like consistency, add fish. Coook for brief period and set aside.
Serve to go with thai sticky rice or palin steamed basmati rice, Enjoy!!!
very nice presentation malar!
I can only admire the curry .. since i am vegetarian.. and the gravy is really tempting. THe clicks are beautiful
Thats a wonderful curry…looks delicious, pepper n ginger are two great flavors.
I haven’t tried fish curry with ginger yet, Malar! It sounds very intriguing! I grind pepper along with the masala too.. I’m looking forward to try your fish curry soon with whole black pepper and ginger. The picture makes me drool!
Pepper as base sounds delicious!!
nice yummy recipe dear..love all ur fish curries
Good to know that most of the people started liking spicy food..Fish curry looks absolutely stunning…Love to have the full bowl..
yenna Malar, fishing phoi kalakkuriya:)
Nice pic of that lake. Inji meen kulambu with that good looking fish will make every one drool. Hope thats a nice catch:) I am pretty sure ur team might had a feast on it. No wonder the locals started liking the spicy food.
nice and yummy recipe lovely presentation beautiful pic. s too
I want to have this fish curry rite now, tempting dish!
Wow…thats a gorgeous picture Malar…with the fish on top…looks yum!
fish curry looks so spicy and delicious..mouth watering… will try this for sure.. cat fish is my fav..
Sure this is my next try with fish for my hubby good one!!
Oh wow fish curry looks flavourful and yum…
Spicy and yummy fish curry.
Looks very delicious and yummy!!! This is absolutely my fav!!!
wow ..cat fish is ma favv..so juicy it is..n the first pic is too good Malar..:)
Another fish dish to tempt me I see