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Meen/Chemmeen Moily - Seafood Moily
Ingredients
Serves: 6
A Chirstian dish.
500 gms seafood (pearl spot/pomfret/prawns)
1 cup oil
2 medium-sized onions,chopped
4 green chillies,chopped
3-cm piece ginger,chopped
2 medium-sized tamotoes,chopped
1 stalk curry leaves
1 cup coconut milk
Marinade:
Juice of 2 limes
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp salt
Ground to a fine paste:
2 cloves garlic,chopped
3 cloves
3-cm stick cinnamon,broken into pieces
1 tsp fennel (badi saunf)
3 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp black pepper powder
4 tsp water
Method of Preparation
- Clean dish (if used),cut into 5-cm pieces,wash and drain.Shell prawns (if used),remove heads,devein,wash and drain.
- Combine ingredients for marinade,mix in seafood and marinate for 20 minutes.
- Drain seafood and reserve any marinade left over.
- Drain seafood and reserve any marinade left over.
- Heat oil in a kadhai,add sea food and fry.(5-10 minutes for fish;5 minutes for prawns.)Remove from oil,drain and set aside.
- Reduce oil to 2 tbsp,add onions,green chillies,ginger,tomato and curry leaves,and fry till onions turn brown.
- Stir in ground paste and fry for 2 minutes.
- Add seafood with reserved marinade and scant 1/2 cup water.Mix gently,cover pan and cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Stir in coconut milk and remove from heat.
- Serve with appam,pathiri or idiappam.
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