Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, meen vattichathu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Meen Vattichathu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Meen Vattichathu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook meen vattichathu using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Meen Vattichathu:
- Prepare 1 kg Red snapper -
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds -
- Get 1/4 tsp Methi Seeds -
- Make ready handful Curry Leaves - A
- Make ready 3 - 4 tbsps Coconut oil -
- Take 1/2 cup Shallots - finely sliced ,
- Prepare 1.5 tsps Ginger - finely grated ,
- Prepare 1.5 tsps Garlic - finely grated ,
- Get 3 chilly , Green , cut lengthwise -
- Prepare 3 pcs Kudam Puli (Fish tamarind) - ,
- Prepare To taste Salt -
- Get 3 - 3.5 tsps Chilly powder -
- Take 2 tsps Chilly Kashmiri powder -
- Get 2 tsps Fish Masala -
- Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric powder -
Steps to make Meen Vattichathu:
- Heat 3 tbsp coconut oil in a meen chatti (or, a non stick pan). Splutter mustard seeds. Add methi seeds and saute for 10 seconds. Add curry leaves.
- Add the ginger-garlic-green chilly to this and saute until they start to turn brown.
- Now, add the finely sliced shallots and saute on medium flame. The shallots also should turn slightly brown (not golden brown)
- Make a paste with the spice powders with as little water as possible. Adjust the chilly powder as well as Kashmiri chilly based on your spice tolerance.
- To this, add the spice paste and continue to saute until the oil starts to separate.
- Now, add 3 cups of water and bring to a boil.
- Add the kudam puli and salt to taste and bring to a boil again.
- Add the cleaned pieces of fish carefully. Do not put a spoon into stir this. Hold the edges of your chatti carefully and give it a slight shake ;). Bring this to a boil.
- Reduce the flame, cover and cook until the fish is done.
- Once the fish is cooked through, switch off the flame. Garnish with a spoon more of coconut oil and curry leaves.
- Serve with rice, tapioca, or even appam!
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