Fish Curry

I love fish - Let it be curried or fried. Let me share a fish dish with you. It is ideal when served with rice or boiled tapioca.

Ingredients:
Fish - 1/2 Kg
Coconut - Grated 1/2 cup or for straining milk -1
Red Chilli Powder- 2tbsp
Turmeric-1/2tsp
Cocum- 5-6 pieces
Salt to taste
Oil- 2tbsp
Curry Leaves- 1 sprig
Onion- 3-4 pieces

Method of Preparation:
Clean the fish well . Grind coconut well with red chilli powder and turmeric. Mix the fish with the ground masala, cocum, salt and sufficient water. Cook well in medium heat. When the gravy thickens add oil and crushed onions and curry leaves. Remove from fire and serve hot.

Variation:
1. The same can be made with coconut milk instead of ground coconut. Strain first milk (1/2 cup) and second milk (2 cups) from the grated coconut by adding water. Saute crushed onions, ginger (1 small piece), turmeric, red chilly powder in oil (or you can mix all the ingredients in the second milk and bring to a boil) Add the second milk, fish, salt and cocum. Boil on medium heat. When the fish is almost done and the gravy thickens add the first milk and remove from fire.

2. You can use onions and tomatos also if you like it. If so, heat oil and cook onion and tomato fairly well before adding the fish and other ingredients. I prefer cocunut milk rather than ground coconut when i prepare fish curry.

Tips:
Instead of cocum, raw mango pieces can be used. But taste varies. Again, you should remove cocum based on the flavour after cooking / keeping it for sometime.