Kugan's Kitchen Part 6

[kugan98]

Dev, my aunt says there are so many different ways to cook this dish.
This is a very simple way to cook. Use fleshy small fishes.
Some meen peera will look like meen puttu. Kugan98


MEEN PEERA

Ingredients:

½ kg small type fish cut and cleaned
2 pieces kudampuli
¼ cup water
1 ½ tbs coconut oil
½ tsp mustard seeds
2 sprigs curry leaves
Salt to taste

To Make A coarse Mixture:
6 shallots sliced
½ inch piece ginger chopped
½ cup coconut or more
3 green chillies
1 pip garlic chopped
½ tsp cumin seeds
½ tsp tumeric powder
1 tsp chillie powder

Method:

Wash and soak the kudampuli in ¼ cup of water.
Coarsely grind all the ingredients mentioned above.

Heat a non-stick pan with the coconut oil.
Add in the mustard seeds and the curry leaves.
Add in the coarsely ground coconut mixture.
Stir fry for a second. Add in kudampuli with the water.

Add in the fish pieces and salt. Mix gently and close the lid.
Cook on medium flame. Stir gently in between.
Sprinkle little water if needed to cook.
The dish has to be dry one, so allow the excess water to evaporate.

Serve with steaming rice.

Thanks To the owner of this picture:

[kugan98]

Suvai, here is the aval kesari for you. Enjoy, Kugan98

AVAL KESARI

Ingredients:

1 cup aval
¼ cup ghee or more
1 cup water
Little orange colouring
A pinch of cardamom powder
¼ cup milk
1 tbs roasted cashew nuts
1 tsp roasted raisins


Method:

Dry roast the aval with ghee till a nice aroma comes.
Keep aside.

In a pan, add the water, colour and cardamom powder.
Let it come to a boil, add in the roasted aval.
Keep on stirring slowly, let it cook for few minutes.

Then add in the milk and stir again.
Sprinkle little hot water if you feel the aval is not cooked.
Add in the sugar and stir again.

The sugar will melt and harden again. You will get a kesari texture.
Bring down the heat, add in the cashew nuts and raisins.
Add also the ghee, stir nicely and remove to a container.

[dev]

wow, thanks for all the recipes Kugan... Actually we had a complementary BF at the resort and we were served a variety of kerala food for BF(incl the banana stew)...other dishes like veg stew, kadalai curry ellam neenga already post panninadhu thaan... on one day we ordered for a kerala thali meal and they served the sweet chips along with the meal. They served plain dhal, sambar, vendakka kitchadi, moru curry, aviyal, milaguperatti, thoran, sweet chips etc... The meal was way too much for us that I just managed to have just a taste of 1/2 the dishes served...Fish was for the kid... I also had a spicy peas curry that had coconut milk in it...not sure if u've posted the recipe for that...it was very yummy... I also love their egg curry... Will have to chk the blog to see if these recipes are already posted...

[groucho070]

Kugan, fish looks awesome. Any fish you recommend. Malay name please, I am weak-u in English names for fish. Thanks for sharing.

[Lathz]

kugan ka.....ur aval kesari is really tempting......mouth watering edy......yummmyyyyyy

[dev]

Groucho, u can use any fleshy fish I guess... the restau ppl made it with some boneless fish chunks(I guess it's vanjiram) as I said it was for the kid...U can also try tilapia...I'm not sure abt tuna...

[kugan98]

Dev, thank you very much for your nice post.
Dev, imm semma sapaaduthaan

Dev, I know about the green peas curry with coconut milk.
My children do not like green peas, that's why I do not cook it.
They will pick out the green peas, even in fried rice and things.
I will post the recipe if you want.
The egg curry too will have coconut milk.
Thanks and take care, Kugan98

[kugan98]

Groucho anneh, in Kerala they will use fresh nethili meen, or sardines.
We can use, ikan tenggiri slices, ikan tongkol, ikan tamban, ikan pari,
ikan siakap. Is NOV anneh around? Shh, you can even use ikan yu

I am safe, vegetarian

Groucho anneh, it is something like our sora meen puttu.
It will be very tasty, when you really dry fry it.

Aamaa, kudampulikku enggeh poovingga?
Try with thick tamarind juice or our assam keping.

Thanks and take care, Kugan98

[kugan98]

Thanks Lathz for your nice post.
Do try it, very simple to make and very tasty.
Thanks to our Suvai for requesting.
At times we forget, simple recipes.
Thanks and take care, Kugan98

[dev]

K, pls do post the green peas curry and egg curry recipe... pics illanalum paravaillai...