Fish curry /Chaapala pulusu

Fish is an important part of our diet. It is very healthy food with low fatand calories,  carbohydrates, vitamins and fatty acids. Even doctors recommend to take fish atleast twice a week.  This is a good food for even heart patients. Fish is an important food in many cuisines of Indian. Now i would like to present the fish curry or chaapala pulusu as made in telangana style of cooking..  For this korameenu or any quality of fish can be used..

Ingredients :

Fish peices – 1 kg

Tamarind extract – 1 cup

Onion – 2

Ginger garlic paste -2 tsp

Cumin powder -1 tsp

Fenugreek powder – 1/2 tsp

Coconut powder -3 tbsp

Coriander powder – 1 tbsp

Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp

Red chillie powder -1 tsp

Salt -to taste

Curry leaves -2 sprigs

Lemon juice -1 tsp

Oil – 2 tbsp

Clean the  fish peices and rub lemon juice on all peices and keep aside.  Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and fry  the sliced onions till they are  soft.  Saute the cumin and fenugreek seeds and grind them  powder and  use  in the recipe or you  can use the readily available powders.  But the freshly ground spices give a special taste and flavour to any recipe..  Take  the tamarind paste or extract and make a liquid adding  water. This should not be too thick or too dilute.. We cook the fish along with other spices in this tamarind water.. Grind the onion into fine paste . Add  turmeric powder, red  chillie powder, coconut powder, coriander powder, cumin and fenugreek powders , salt as required, curry leaves and oil along with the onion paste. Add  the fish peices  and mix well  and cook it on medium heat .  Slowly mix the  curry frequently not to break the peices.  Cook till the fish is cooked  and gives out delicious flavour and oil floats on top. Remove from fire and serve.

Actually many say or agree that this fish curry or pulusu tastes great when cool.   and in many regions it is eaten on next day along with jowar  rotis which is a wonderful combination.. Try to take fish not less than a kg. This is becos they have less bones.. easy to separate..

This is my first entry to Spotlight: fish even organised by indrani.

Read  this post in Telugu:

This is evergreen recipe learnt from my mom. i dont even dare to change any ingredient becos its perfect ..

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Tags: fish, non-vegetarian