Kerala Fish Recipe

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Baked Crab

Ingredients

6 large crabs
4 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
2 cups milk
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp tobasco
1 cup grated cheese
2 eggs
1 capsicum or green chilli (de-seeded)
2 tbsp tomato sauce
1/2 tsp mustard powder
1 tsp salt

Method

Clean crabs and chop the meat.
Melt butter in a pan, add flour, fry a little, then add hot milk, stir until thick and
creamy, add the rest of the ingredients, leaving a little cheese aside.
Cool the mixture.
Beat eggs a little and add to the above mixture; pour all this in a greased baking
dish, sprinkle with cheese and bake in a hot oven until set.
Serve hot.
Note: The dish can be prepared and keep, and baked just prior to serving. The
mixture could also be baked in crab shells.

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Fish Cutlets

Ingredients

1 tin of tuna fish
1 large onion, chopped fine
1/4 piece ginger, chopped fine
3 cloves garlic, chopped fine
2 green chillies chopped fine
One small bunch cilantro, chopped fine
1 tsp garam masala & cayenne pepper
Salt to taste
Bread crumbs
2 eggs, beaten well
1 large potato boiled and mashed
half a cup of cooked peas

Method

Fry the fish in some oil, till slightly brown, with some salt and garam masala and
keep aside. Fry the onions till brown.
Add the ginger and garlic and fry for a while. Add the salt and garam masala and
fry some more.
Then add the green chillies and cilantro and stir for a little while Add the onion
masala from step 5, peas and the mashed potato to the fish and mix well.
Shape into cutlets. Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Take one cutlet at a time, dip in
egg, then dip in the bread crumbs.
You may repeat this step for crisper cutlets. Deep fry the cutlets
Drain them on paper towels and serve hot with an onion salad and mint / tamarind chutney.

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Ginger Fish

Ingredients

1/2 kg fish fillets
1 sprig spring onion, chopped finely
2 tbsp oil
For Sauce:
3 tsp grated ginger
2 garlic flakes
2 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp water
1 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp lemon juice
(Make a thin paste of all the ingredients.)

Method

Clean the fillets and make into serving pieces
Place it in the baking dish
Heat oil in a pan
Add the sauce paste into it
Simmer for 5 minutes
Pour over the fish fillets
Garnish with spring onion
Bake at 350 degree F for 30 minute.
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Kerala Fish Curry

Ingredients

King Fish or
(Salmon or Mahi Mahi) - 1 kg
Chili powder - two tablespoonful
Turmeric powder - half teaspoonful
Fenugreek - half teaspoonful
Mustard seeds - one tea spoonful
Red onions - 4 cut pieces
Garlic - 3
Ginger - 4 pieces
Coconut oil - 1/4 cup
Curry leaves - 10 stems
Salt - As required
Tamarind.

Method

In a frying pan, heat about a quarter of a cup of coconut oil or vegetable oil until the oil is hot enough to break a few mustard seeds in this oil. Now add the chopped onions, few curry leaves and split green chilies and stir
fry. To this add a mixture of turmeric, chilli powder, water and cook. When the oil begins to clear add the remaining spices previously ground, half a cup of `tamarind water' and sufficient additional water to make enough gravy Cook until the gravy is thick. Put this aside. In a separate large frying pan, prepare a bed of curry leaves. Arrange the pieces of fish on this bed. Pour the previously prepared gravy over this, The pieces of
fish should be completely covered. Add the remaining curry leaves and
tamarind, cover with a lid and cook slowly. Do not stir, if necessary you can lift the frying pan by it's handle and give it a gentle rotating or rocking motion during cooking to spread the gravy evenly. Stop cooking when the fish pieces are cooked sufficiently and the gravy is
thick.

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Masala Crab Curry

Ingredients

Big size Crab - 6 pcs
Onion paste - 1/4 cup
Ginger Garlic paste - 1/4 cup
Tomato Puree - 1/2 cup
Curd - 1/4 cup
Water - 1 cup
Whole Garam Masala few
Whole Jeera - 2 tsp
Bay Leaf - 2 nos
Garam Masala Powder - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
Salt as per taste
Fresh Coriander for garnish

Method

Clean the crab and boiled it for 2 minutes. Take only the fleshy parts for cooking.
Heat a pan add bay leaf, jeera and whole garam masala in it. Add onion paste,
garlic ginger paste, tomato puree in it.
Now add curd and salt, turmeric powder ,garam masala powder and the crab in it.
Mix all and fry them till it removes oil. Add water in it. Cover it for 10 minutes in a
slow flame.
Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hot with Rice or Paratha.