Malabar Meen Vattichathu

Ingredients

Fish - half pound( sadrines, mackarel)

Onion - 1 big

Tomato - 2

Green chilli - 3

Ginger garlic paste - 1 big tspn

Tamarind - half a lemon size

Chilli powder - 1 and a half tspn

Turmeric powder - half tspn

Cilantro - 1 tspn chopped

Mint leaves - 1tspn chopped

Curry leaves - 6

Oil

Salt to taste

Method

• Take a deep frying pan and mix all the ingredients  with three cups of water except fish and oil.
• Let it boil above the stove till the onions and and tomatoes are half boiled.
• Then put the fish in mixture and boil till cooked, may be for 10-15 min.
• Pour 1 tblspn of oil above the curry after switching off the stove.

In the case of shrimp/prawns allow the curry to boil for half an hour.