Fish curry with sambar powder
Fish sambar is an easy, simple and tasty fish curry made with just sambar powder.
Ingredients
- 500 g Fish
- 2 tbsp Oil
- Few Curry leaves
- 10 Shallots finely chopped
- 2 Green chilli slit
- 2 tsp Ginger garlic paste
- ¾ tsp Salt as per taste
- ½ inch Fresh turmeric finely chopped (optional)
- 1 Tomato finely chopped
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- 2 tsp Sambar powder Adjust as per your spice need.
- 1 handful Coriander leaves Finely chopped for garnishing
- 1 lemon size Tamarind Soak and extract water
Instructions
- Clean and wash the fish. You can keep refrigerated until you add in curry.
- Heat a kadai, add oil. Once the oil is heated, add curry leaves.
- Add chopped onions, slit green chilli and salt. Saute until onion is brown.
- Include ginger garlic paste and saute until its raw smell goes off.
- Add fresh turmeric pieces now along with chopped tomatoes.
- Saute until the tomatoes are mashed.
- Add turmeric powder and sambar powder now.
- Mix together and saute for 2 minutes in low flame.
- Add tamarind extract water and extra water to adjust the gravy consistency.
- Bring this mixture to boil.
- After it starts to boil, reduce the flame.
- Cook in low flame until oil start separated. This should take about 10 minutes.
- Now add fish pieces and immerse in masala mixed water.
- Cook in low flame for 5 minutes.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Now the yummy fish curry is ready.
- Let it rest for an hour at least, then serve with hot rice.
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Notes
- Adding chopped shallots for this recipe makes whole lot of difference.
- You can adjust sambar powder as per your taste. 2 to 3 tsp sambar masala would be sufficient for medium spicy gravy.
- Further, always reduce the flame to low after the gravy started boiling.
- Finally, you can adjust the tamarind water as per your taste or based on the fish variety you use. Some fishes need more tamarind water while few require less.