Recipe: Delicious Mulakitta Meen Curry / Kottayam Style Fish Curry

Recipe: Delicious Mulakitta Meen Curry / Kottayam Style Fish Curry Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Mulakitta Meen Curry / Kottayam Style Fish Curry. Let me share a traditional Kerala style fish curry. People from northern Kerala calls it Malabar fish curry / Kozhikodan fish curry, while those towards the Travancore region, calls it Kottayam style fish curry and some calls it simply Meen Mulakittath. This is the simplest to prepare fish curry which even the amateurs can cook at home easily.

Kottayam fish curry recipe which is also called as Meen Mulakittathu is a very simple recipe using fish tamarind. only very few ingredients are used to make a delicious Kerala Kottayam style meen curry.

When we talk about the fish curries, there are so many variants of the curry made across different regions of Kerala.

Kerala Fish Curry - Kottayam Style receipe

You can cook Mulakitta Meen Curry / Kottayam Style Fish Curry using 15 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mulakitta Meen Curry / Kottayam Style Fish Curry

1. Prepare 1/2 kg of Fish Tuna seer fish - /.

2. It’s 1 tablespoon of coconut oil.

3. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of fenugreek seed.

4. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of mustard seed (optional).

5. Prepare 4 sprigs of curry leaves.

6. It’s 1 cup of shallot onion sliced / 1 - sliced thinly.

7. Prepare 5 - 6 nos of garlic sliced.

8. You need 1 of ginger piece crushed.

9. It’s 2 nos of tomato sliced - (optional).

10. It’s 3 of cocum piece.

11. You need to taste of salt.

12. You need 3 tablespoons of kashmiri chilli powder.

13. It’s 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder.

14. Prepare 1 1/2 tablespoons of coriander powder.

15. It’s as required of water.

Kerala Fish Curry (Kottayam Style) or Meen Curry ( മീൻ കറി ) is a spicy curry.

It is a good combination with rice and tapioca ( kappa ).

Fish curry is a signature item among any other curry in India, especially Kerala.

Meen Vevichathu is what it is called in kottayam.

Mulakitta Meen Curry / Kottayam Style Fish Curry step by step

1. Cut fish in medium size pieces.

2. Crush ginger, slice shallots and garlic.

3. Mix red chilly powder, coriander powder and turmeric with water and make a paste.

4. Wash cocum and soak in 1/2 cup of water for 15 mins.

5. Slice tomato length wise.

6. Keep a kadai or earthen container on stove and add coconut oil..

7. When the oil is hot, add mustard and fenugreek seeds followed by curry leaves. Fry them..

8. Add the ginger garlic and onion and fry till golden brown.

9. Add the masala paste and saute till the raw flavour leaves and the masala turns dark red colour..

10. Add the soaked cocum with the water, mix well, and add sliced tomatoes.

11. Add salt to taste and enough water to cover the fish (when added).

12. Bring this to boil.

13. Add fish to the gravy, cover and cook for 5 to 7 mins in medium flame.

14. Open the lid, take the pan in hand and rotate the curry inside the pan to mix it. avoid using spoon as it may break the fish pieces..

15. Cover and cook for another 5- 10 mins, then open the lid and cook till the gravy gets thick.

16. Switch off flame, pour a spoon of cocunut oil on top of the curry, add some curry leaves.

17. Serve after the curry cools down..

It is a spicy and delicious fish curry which is mainly tamarind based and taste so delicious.

The main flavour for this comes from the unique sour ingredient called as kokum.

I ran out of that so i used normal tamarind but still it tasted delicious.

Malayalam word for fish is "Meen".

Some people call it as "Malsyam.