Steps to Make Award-winning Fish Pollichathu

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, Recipe of Perfect Fish Pollichathu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Many things affect the quality of taste from Fish Pollichathu, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Fish Pollichathu delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.

As for the number of servings that can be served to make Fish Pollichathu is 4 to 6 people. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Fish Pollichathu estimated approx 45 minutes.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have Fish Pollichathu using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

This is traditionally made in Kerala, usually with a breed of fish called "karimeen", which is very seasonal. Hence I have used Pomfret and Seer fish to make this recipe. This is an excellent starter and the flavour comes from the banana leaf that is used in this recipe. There is a version of making this recipe with coconut milk which is also very delicious. This version posted here is suggested by Ms.Sushmitha Girish(sushcooks) from Cookpad Community which I really loved.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Fish Pollichathu:

1. 350 grams Fish preferably with less bones
2. 2 large onions finely chopped
3. 2 medium tomatoes
4. 6 shallots
5. 1 piece ginger
6. 6 pods garlic
7. 1 spoon Kashmiri Chilli powder
8. 1 spoon Coriander powder
9. 1/2 spoon Turmeric powder
10. As required salt
11. 1 spoon Fennel/saunf
12. 1 spoon jeera
13. 1 spoon Pepper corns
14. 4 sprigs Curry leaves
15. 1/2 lemon size Tamarind
16. 50 ml Coconut oil
17. 1 spoon Mustard seeds
18. 2 green chillies

Instructions to make Fish Pollichathu

1. Marinate fish pieces with 1/2 spoon turmeric powder, 1/2 spoon chilli powder and salt as required for at least 30 minutes. Shallow fry them and drain it over kitchen towel
2. Soak tamarind in water for at least 20 minutes. Keep other things ready.
3. In a blender/mixie jar add 1 spoon saunf, 1 spoon jeera, 1 spoon pepper corns
4. Add shallots, ginger, green chillies
5. And garlic and grind coarsely
6. Then open the mixie jar/blender and add tomatoes and grind them and keep the paste aside.
7. In another pan add 4 spoons of coconut oil and add 1 spoon of mustard seeds and let it spluter. Then add finely chopped onions and 2 sprigs of curry leaves and fry the onions till it is golden brown
8. Then add the grinded paste and saute for 2 minutes
9. Then add salt, kashmiri chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder and saute for 2 minutes. Then add tamarind juice and saute till raw smell goes off and keep the masala ready
10. Now heat a banana leaf over gas stove and soften it. Do not overburn. This step is to ensure that the banana leaf doesn't tear off when assembling. Spread a layer of onion tomato masala over the banana leaf
11. Then place the fish pieces over it and also top some more masala over the fish. Add some raw onions on top
12. And some curry leaves and wrap the banana leaf tightly(not very tight) but without gaps and tie it with a thread
13. In a tawa add 3 spoons coconut oil and place the wrapped fish pocket. Cover and cook on both sides for 10 minutes each on medium high flame.
14. Take it off from stove. Cut the threads and open the fish and relish the flavours of Fish Polichathu

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