Simple and Delicious !

We wouldn't prepare Meen peera at home normally, but started to cook it once when I saw my TVM neighbour prepared it. This curry is usually prepared using kanava / squid , mathi / sardines or with small fishes like netholi / chooda etc. I have made little changes to the recipe according to my taste.



Ingredients
Fish fillets 1 1/2 cups
shallots / chuvannulli 10
green chillies 3 or more
ginger piece 1/2 " length
coconut grated 1 1/2 cups
curry leaves few
turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
chilli powder 1/2 tsp
kokum / kudam puli 3 small pieces
coconut oil 1 Tbsp
salt



How to prepare
Crush coconut, green chillies, shallots , ginger and curry leaves as we do for aviyal.
Cook fish with kudampuli, salt and the powders with little water.When it is about 3/4 cooked, add the crushed ingredients and reduce water. Fish with less bones is good for this. If you use sardine, remove bones after cooked (mullu kudanju kalayuka). Pour the coconut oil into this and keep covered. Remove from fire. If you like tamarind use it instead of kudam puli.

See the Meen thoran recipe,

Ingredients
Fish fillets 6 medium size pieces
garlic and ginger paste 2 tsp
lime juice 1/2 of one lime
fennel seeds powder 1/4 tsp
pepper powder 4 or more tsp
salt
oil



How to prepare
Clean fish and marinate using the above ingredients. Shallow fry them. Use coconut oil for frying. It will enhance the taste..!

Caviar / fish eggs are known as parinjeen or pananjil in our place. (Don't know how it is known in other places of Kerala.) This is a very simple dish which we would make just as we prepare our usual omelets.



Ingredients
Fish eggs / caviar 1 cup
onion 1
tomato 1
pepper powder 1 tsp
green chillies 2
curry leaves few
turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
eggs 2
salt
oil



Method
Wash and cook caviar with salt , turmeric powder and enough water. Remove outer skin (if it has) and mash it.Chop all the vegetables. Break eggs into a bowl. Add the chopped vegetables, pepper powder and salt. Mix together , just like for making omlettes.Heat a pan, spread little oil make and omelettes. Make small omelettes. Otherwise it will break.

I had few salmon fillets in my freezer, and was wondering what to do with it. Since salmons are not much familiar here, no body liked it and said, it has a biscuit taste! A friend told making curry with salmon fish will taste good, but I postponed it for the next time, and just tried a chilly fish with the usual chilly chicken ingredients and it was worth , all the fillets disappeared! :) I used the same method to finish the leftover canned sardines after the roti canai event..:D

Ingredients and how to prepare
Fish fillets 6
onion 1
green chillies 2
ginger 1/2 " piece chopped
lemon juice 1/2 tsp
garlic paste 1 tsp
ginger paste 1 tsp
curry leaves few chopped
coriander leaves chopped few
soya sauce 1 tbsp
chilli sauce 2 tsps
tomato sauce 2 tbsps
pepper powder 1 or 2 tsps
chilli powder 1 tsp
corn flour 2 tsps
salt
oil

Cut fish fillets into small pieces. Marinate them with garlic and ginger paste, salt, pepper powder,chilli powder ,lemon juice ,half of the soya sauce and cornflour. Keep for half an hour. Shallow fry them. Chop onion and cut green chillies. Heat oil,(use the remaining oil used for frying ) saute onion, green chillies, curry leaves and ginger together for some time. Don't saute too much. Add fried fish, remaining soya sauce, chilli sauce and tomato sauce. Mix well, after adding coriander leaves remove from fire.
You can try this with prawns too.



Chilly Sardines
Sardines in tomato sauce 300 gms
onion 1 chopped
green chillies 2 chopped
ginger 1/2" piece chopped
garlic cloves 2 chopped
curry leaves few chopped
soya sauce 1 tbsp
chilli sauce 2 tsp
pepper powder 1 tsp optional
mustard seeds
oil

Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, saute onion. when transparent add green chillies, ginger, garlic and curry leaves. Saute and add sardines with the sauce which it is soaked. Add the other sauces too. Mix well and remove from fire.

Kanava / Koonthal - Squid / Calamari Roast

Ingredients and Method
Koonthal / Squid 1/2 kg pieces
tomatoes 2
onions 2
garlic and ginger paste 2 teaspoons
green chilly 2
curry leaves few
red chilly powder 2 teaspoons or as desired
coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon
turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
garam masala powder 1/4 teaspoon
fennel seeds powder 2 pinch
vinegar 2 tablespoons
salt
oil



Mix everything together except oil , vinegar and curry leaves. Cook them on a medium heat. If needed add enough water to cook. When it is about to finish cooking add vinegar. Reduce water. Heat oil in a pan, pour the prepared curry into this. Add curry leaves too. Saute till very dry. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Meen thoran is a simple dish to prepare.You can use any fish to make this. Especially Ayala/Mackeral, Sravu/Shark, Ayakkoora/Seer fish are good for this. You can use canned tuna too. Take this as a side dish with rice.

Tuna Thoran or Meen Thoran / Dry Fish Curry

Ingredients
tuna 2 cans
pepper powder 2 teaspoons
turmeric powder 1 tea spoon
coconut 4 tablespoons
pearl onions 10
ginger 1 inch piece
green chillies 3
curry leaves few
mustard seeds
coconut oil
salt



Method
Remove water (or oil) from the tuna.
Chop small onions, green chilies and ginger piece.Mix them very well by hands, with tuna , coconut, curry leaves, salt and all the powders. Heat coconut oil, splutter mustard seeds. Add the mixture into this and stir well.Keep this on a low flame for a while by keeping the lid closed and stirring occasionally. Let it dry and remove from fire.
If you make this with any other fish, first cook fish with turmeric powder, salt and water. Remove all the bones and take the fleshy part. Crumble it. Then follow the same method. If you want to get a more spicy dish, add little red chilly powder.

Ingredients
Fish 6 fillets
Mustard seeds 2 tea spoon
Pepper corns 1 tea spoon
Lemon juice of 2 lemon
Chilly powder ½ tea spoon
Gram flour/ besan ¼ cup
Salt
Oil for frying

How to prepare
Powder or paste mustard and pepper together.
Mix fish with the above paste or powder, lemon juice, salt and chilly powder.
Marinate for few minutes.
Dip fish pieces in besan to cover the both sides.
Deep fry.
Serve with salad.

This is the French style fish fry.I got this recipe from net long back, unfortunately forgot the site name.

Ingredients

Ingredients
Fish - 250 g
Red chilly powder -1 tsp or according to your taste
Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
Garlic and ginger paste – ½ tsp
Fennel seed powder – one pinch
Besan / Kadalamavu – ¼ tsp (for this type of fish)
Salt

This recipe is given by my friend Latha. I have tried this many times. It is very simple and tasty. It has been one of kid's favourite.