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How to make Sura puttu | Restaurant Style Sura Puttu | Fish recipes

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Sura puttu is my favorite dish. My mom used to prepare this twice a month in my childhood days and 3 days a week when i delivered my son. People used to say, that paal sura is good for delivered ladies as it produces more breast milk. This recipe is again my mom recipe and my family favorite too.

How to make Sura Puttu

Preparation time: 30 min | Cook Time: 10min | Serves:5
Recipe Category: Side Dish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Ingredients

  • Shark / Sura meen – 1/2 kg
  • Water – 1.5 cups
  • Oil – 3 tsp
  • Mustard seeds – a pinch
  • Urud Dal – 1/2 tsp
  • Channa dal – 1/2 tsp
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Green chillies – 3 (chopped finely)
  • Onion – 2 big (chopped finely)
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Salt – as per taste
  • Coriander leaves – for garnishing

Method
1. Cook the shark with 1/4 tsp Salt and 1.5 cup of water in a pressure cooker. keep it for 2 whistles and switch off immediately. After cooking remove from cooker and Slightly squeeze out the excess water.

2. Allow it to dry and scramble the shark with hand or a spatula and keep aside.

3. In a vessel, add oil and oil is hot, add the mustard seeds, urud dal, channa dal, curry leaves and green chillies, one by one and fry a min.
4. Add the onion and salt and saute well.

5. Add in the ginger garlic paste and turmeric powder and saute again till the raw smell of ginger garlic goes off.

6. Add in the Shark and mix well and keep on frying for another 5 min.

7. Serve hot as a side dish or eat as it is as I do.

This goes to my event – Dish name starts with S

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Comments

  1. siva prakasam.k says

    Hello
    Fine receipe
    Small suggest – While saute can also add SOMBU 2 spoon
    For extra taste – can add cashew paste (submerged in water for 15 mts & grind the same with that water) for remembering rich taste

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  6. Navaneetham Krishnan says

    How did I miss this delish post of yours? We too enjoy sura puttu very much. Its always mum's version will still be the best. Another of our fav too but those sura is only available once a while at my place.

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  9. Ponnu Alfred says

    I had never heard about Sura puttu …… Thank U for making us learn about this dish …….step-by-step pictures are really helpful ……..great work ..

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  19. Divya Shivaraman says

    Akila you will not believe this still want to tell you, i didnot know this is made with fish until 2 years back when i tasted this for the first time(my aunt prepared it during my pregnancy :))…i had a thought itz a pittu with shark meat…how funny…loved your version

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