Meen Pachila Curry

Ingredients for Meen Pachila Curry:

1. Fish with thick flesh – ¼ kg

2. Green chillies or Bird’s eye chilli – 10

    Shallots – 3

    Curry leaves – 4 stalks

    Salt – For taste

    Palak or green spinach – 3 leaves

3. Coconut milk – For 1 coconut

4. Malabar tamarind (Kudam puli) – 2 pieces

5. Coconut oil – 1 big spoon

How to prepare Meen Pachila Curry?

1. Wash fish and cut into small pieces.

2. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 2.

3. Add coconut milk to the gravy, along with Malabar tamarind.

4. Transfer the contents to an earthen pot and place in flame.

5. When the contents get heated, add fish pieces to it. Cook the fish.

6. When fish pieces are well cooked, pour 1 big spoon of coconut oil.

7. Stir it once and take your fish curry from flame.

Recipe Source: Vanitha Magazine February 15-29, 2012

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