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Fish Gravy

Meen Kuzhambu / Spicy Fish Gravy – When I think of meen kulambu, I always have the feel that my mothers is the best. Not sure whether it is of the love and affection, she add along with her cooking or it is because of the experience or the both. After marriage, though I used to ask her the recipe and do the same what she says, I feel the taste never comes like hers. Though I am little bit ok now a days, still my Father says, my type meen kuzhambu, is different from my moms.  Last sunday I cooked Kerala Style Prawn Roast and Masala Fish Fry and I asked my mother to cook this meen kuzhambu and noted down each and every measurements and steps and I am sharing with you all.

You can also view other Fish Recipes below…
Masala Fish Fry
Anchovies Fish Fry
Anchovies Dry Fish Fry
Restaurant Style Sura Puttu
Pomfret Fry
Fish Fry

Now lets see how to cook, My Mothers Special Meen kuzhambu..

Spicy Fish Gravy

How to make Meen Kuzhambu / Spicy Fish Gravy

Preparation time: 30 min | Cook Time: 30min | Serves:5
Recipe Category: Main Course | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Ingredients

To Grind
Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp
Black Pepper corns – 1 tsp
Shallots / Small onion – 10
Tomato – 1

To Marinate
Fish Pieces – 15 (I used Sankara Fish)
Chilli powder – 1 tsp
Coriander powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/2 tsp

For Gravy
Oil – 3 tsp
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves – 12 to 15
Onion – 1 big (chopped finely)
Tomato – 1 big (chopped finely)
Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/4tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Hot water – 3 cups
Tamarind Pulp – 1 cup (Extracted from 2 gooseberry/amla sized tamarind)
Coriander leaves for garnishing.

Meen Kuzhambu Recipe

Method
Lets see the cooking method of Meen Kuzhambu.

How to make Fish gravy

1. Wash the fish with water thoroughly and again with salt and keep it ready.

2. Soak the tamarind in hot water for 10 to 15 min at least and extract the pulp.

3. Now take the washed fish in a big bowl and add the chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.

4. Mix them well, so that they are well coated and let it marinate for 30 to 40 min.
5. Now in a mixer, add the cumin seeds, black pepper.
6. Add the onions and the Tomato. 
7. Grind to coarse paste without any water and keep it ready.
8. In the Kadai / wok, add the oil, and when the oil is hot, add in the cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds.

 9. When they turn light brown colour, add the onions and fry for a min or till they becomes traslucent. ( Plz add the curry leaves at this stage. As I forgot to add, added in the 12th step. )

10. Now add in the tomatoes and saute them well.

11. When they are soft add the chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.

12. Add in the curry leaves and saute for another minute.

13. Add in the ground paste and saute till the raw smell goes off from the onion.

14. Add the tamarind pulp and let it boil,

15. Add the fish pieces now and let it cook nicely.

16. If the gravy is thick, add some hot water and let it boil for 15 to 20 min.

17. When the oil starts oozing out from the gravy, add the coriander leaves and switch off the stove.

18. Spicy Fish Gravy is now ready.

Meen Kulambu Recipe
Fish gravy step by step
Delicious and Mouth Watering Meen kuzhambu / Spicy Fish Gravy is ready to be served. 
Enjoy it with hot rice…..

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  1. Navnitz says

    I came all the way down searching for this comment. Fish usually cooks in 3-4 minutes anything over that will break the fishes or if the cooking is beyond the breaking stage it will get overcooked and become hard.

    Also it is better to roast the chilli powder before marinating so that we can avoid the raw smell of the chilli powder.

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  3. cool Bans says

    dear,i did this and came out so well.thanks so much. i always follow your fish recipe.at last i added few coconut strand mixed with some water .it was so tasty. try this last step also.

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    • Akila says

      Hi Cool Bans,

      Yes my Mom used to add coconut milk in the last step. But I feel the spiciness gets reduced by adding and also feel it give more sweet taste. I want my fish curry to be more spicy and I didn’t add the coconut here. If you want you can very well add. 😊

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  10. Renuka says

    Tried it multiple times and everytime it came out yummy .. Grinding the onion raw is new to me .. One of my aunts used to do it this way and I just loved it .. Followed your recipe and it came out very tasty

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  11. suba bharathi says

    Last Saturday I tried this recipe and came out very well. And today I tried I became expert meen kulambu expert. Thank u so much simple steps of cooking method and clear pictorial.

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  15. Pinku Evelyn says

    Thanks Akila mam. First time ever I tried out and the kulambu tasted well all told me. I'm a vegetarian and just cook for the sake of my family. Thanks for the recipe.

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  16. Arjunan Akilandeswari says

    Hi mprem123, Thanks for trying out my recipe… By the way how much cumin seeds you have added?? Is it 1 tsp or 1 tbsp?? If you have added 1 tsp and you still do not like cumin seeds flavor then reduce it to half and try again…

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  17. mprem123 says

    Thanks for the detailed step by step instructions. Tried it today and it was ok. Felt cumin flavour over dominated the recipe, otherwise it was fine.

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