Malabar Fish Curry

Ingredients:

• 250 g Shell fish or any other fish
• ¾ coconuts
• 1 big onion
• 4 green chilies
• 2 cm ginger piece
• ½ garlic pod
• 1 small onion chopped

Seasoning:

• 2 tsp chili powder
• Small ball of tamarind
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• ½ tsp fenugreek
• 2 tbsp coriander powder
• ½ bunch coriander leaves
• 1 tsp aniseed
• 1 curry leaf
• 1 big tomato
• 2 tbsp oil

Directions:

1. Clean and cut the fish into big slices. Peel garlic and scrape ginger. Cut tomato into 4 pieces. Soak tamarind in water. Extract milk from ½ coconut and keep aside.
2. Roast rest of the coconut gratings with aniseed, chopped onions and curry leaves in 1 tbsp oil till gratings are brown. Grind this mixture to form a smooth paste.
3. Grind garlic and ginger to a paste. Fry this paste also in oil.
4. To ginger-garlic paste add water, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt. Boil for a minute.
5. Cook fish till it is almost done. To this, mix coconut paste along with coconut milk. Finally add curry leaves and coriander leaves. Boil and remove from fire.