Karutha Kuzhambu/ Marundhu Kuzhambu- Post Pregnancy Recipe

This is a very tasty and healthy fish curry usually prepared for lactating mothers. You can use any fish of your choice to this marundhu Kuzhambu. If you are a vegetarian you can add garlic instead of fish.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4

Author sathyapradeep

Ingredients

1/2 kg Fish I used sardine/ Mathi fish
Salt
1/4 tsp Hing
20 cloves Garlic
Tamarind extract from a lemon size tamarind
2 tbsp Gingelly oil

For the masala

1/3 cup Coconut
1 tbsp Ajwain
2 tsp Pepper
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 piece Dry ginger
6 Shallots
Curry leaves
2 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Chilli powder
1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
12 cloves Garlic with skin

Recipe Notes

Keep all the ingredients ready.

Heat a kadai and dry roast all the given ingredients for masala. Roast till it turns dark brown. Now switch off the flame and then add coriander powder, chilly powder and turmeric powder. Let it cool and grind it to a paste.

In a clay pot take this paste, along with tamarind extract, salt, fish, hing adding sufficient water.

Ina separate kadai heat oil and add garlic. Let it cook till it turns soft. Atlas add curry leaves. Add this to the fish curry and let it boil for 5 mins.