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Fish Molee with vegetables (Kerala Style Fish Curry)

A traditional Kerala Fish curry with a nutritional twist- vegetables! This twist is the result of my lack of time (or some may say laziness) in making a separate vegetable dish to go along with this. But I must say it tasted great and got everyone eating the extra vegetables! It’s winter, so I added some frozen winter vegetables to it.

The original Meen (Fish) Molee doesn’t have extra vegetables added to it-so you could omit it if you want the authentic dish. For those looking for  one dish with protein+veg, this is ideal.

Ingredients for Fish molee with vegetables:

• Fish fillets- 500gms (cut and marinate in 1 tsp pepper powder, lemon juice, 1/2 tsp turmeric, salt)
• Carrot, Green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach- 1 cup frozen/fresh (omit if you want to make authentic molee)
• Onion – 3 medium (sliced)
• Ginger:  1 tbsp crushed/grated
• Garlic: 1 tbsp crushed
• Green Chilies: 2-3 slit (or as per heat tolerance)
• Cloves – 4
• Cinnamon – 1 medium stick
• Tomato – 3-4 medium (chopped)
• Coconut milk – 1 can
• Water- 2 cups
• Salt- to taste
• Oil – 3 tsp
• Curry leaves- 10-20 numbers

Method:

1. Heat oil in a kadai, add the cloves, cinnamon stick, grated ginger and garlic and sliced onions.
2. In the meanwhile, shallow fry the fish in a little oil. Keep aside.
3. When the onions have turned translucent add the coconut milk and a cup of water.
4. Stir for 2-3 minutes, then add the tomatoes and another cup of water.
5. When the tomatoes are cooked, add the curry leaves, fried fish pieces, salt and let it come to a boil (add more water if it’s too thick)
6. Do not stir too much or the fish will break.
7. Serve with appam, rice, neer dosa or plain dosa