Meen Kuzhambu

Ingredients:

• Fish - 1/2 kg
• Small onions - 1/4 cup
• Garlic - 6 to 8 pod
• Tomato - 1
• Chilli powder - 4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
• Tamarind - 1 small lemon sized
• Rock salt - 1 to 2 tsp
• Oil - 4 tb sp
• Ginglee oil - 2 tbsp

For Seasoning

• Fenugreek seed - 1/2 tsp
• Pepper - 1/2 tsp
• Split urudh dhal - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli - 3
• Asafoetida - 2 pinch
• Curry leaves 2 string

Method:

Clean the fish. Peal the onion and garlic. Soak the tamarind and salt in 1 cup water.
Heat oil in a kadai. season it with the ingredients given under for seasoning. add the onions and garlic sauté well initially in high flame and then simmer the flame. make solution of the tamarind squeeze and take the tamarind out. mash a tomato in the tamarind juice.
Pour this content into the kadai. Add more water. Add chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and let it boil. check for salt and spices.
Now add the fish pieces into this gravy and let it boil. add the ginglee oil also and simmer it. let it boil till the oil comes out.
serve with Rice and appalam.

Note: you can also add thing slices of coconut just before adding the fish. the coconut soaked in this kuzhambu will be of a different taste. Give a nice tip for the chilli powder as the kozhambu will taste good only when it is a bit spicy. Also this is a good combination for Hot Idly or Dosa. Usually Meen Kuzhambu tastes like heaven the next day.