Fish curry recipe-Indian style/ Hyderabadi Fish curry in 3 simple steps
Fish curry is the gravy or stew prepared from any variety of fish like salmon, rohu, murell or king fish with added spices and nuts of choice depending on the locality and personal choice of people. There are many variants of fish curry, like the Hyderabadi fish curry, Goan fish curry, Singaporean fish curry, Kerala fish curry, etc.
Fish curry is rich in proteins, vitamins and goes well with chapati or plain rice.
Here is the recipe for Hyderabadi fish curry in 3 steps: marination, masala preparation, and stew preparation. Do give it a try. You will love it.
Prep Time | 15 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
Servings |
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Ingredients
For marination
- 500 grams Salmon / Any fish
- 1 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste
- 1.5 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
- 1 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt (as per taste)
For Gravy masala
- 1 fistful Sesame Seeds / Til (dry roasted)
- 1.5 fistful Dry grated coconut (or pieces of 3/4 of dry coconut half)
- 1 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste
- 1 large sized onion
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds (or 1 teaspoon coriander powder)
- 1 pinch methi seeds/ fenugreek seeds
- 2 teaspoon Zeera/ cumin seeds (1 tsp for masala and 1 teaspoon for tampering)
- 1/2 cup water or 100 ml(to add while grinding to make masala paste)
- 5 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 medium sized Bay Leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- 1 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder or paprika
For stew preparation
- 25 grams dried tamarind (for making tamarind pulp) as per taste
- 1 cup water to adjust consistency
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt as per taste
- 1 fistful Fresh curry leaves
- 2 medium sized Fresh green chillies
- 1 fistful Fresh Coriander Leaves
Ingredients
For marination
For Gravy masala
For stew preparation
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Instructions
Peparation of masala gravy
- Heat Tawa or wok or pan on medium flame and dry roast the dry grated coconut, sesame seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, and methi seeds one by one for 30 seconds each.
For making stew
Recipe Notes
- Be careful while roasting coconut powder, sesame seeds, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, methi seeds. Do not over roast the nuts and spices. Roast them only until golden only for 30 seconds.
- While caramelizing the onion, fry until golden.
- It is optional to fry fish for 2 minutes. If you feel like frying the fish, may break the pieces then skip the step and add the raw marinated fish directly to the fried masala, then cover and cook for 3 minutes on a low flame before adding the tamarind pulp.