Some more Kerala fish dishes

Fish Moli

This is an ancient delicious dish of Kerala.

Ingredients: -

1.Prawns (1kg), cleaned
2.Green Chilly (3 or 4 nos)
3.Big Onion (1 no.), sliced
4.Ginger (1 small piece cut into pieces)
5.Garlic (3 pods cut into small pieces)
6.Curry leaves
7.Turmeric powder (1 ts)
8.Kudampuli (2 nos)
9. First extract (1/2 cup) and 2nd extract (1 ½ cup) of coconut milk
10.Oil, mustard seeds
11.Salt

Method: -

Marinate prawns in turmeric and salt for ½ an hr.
Pour oil in a kadai
Put mustard seeds
Once the mustard seeds are spluttered, put onion, curry leaves, green chilly, ginger and garlic and fry for 2 mins
Then put the prawns into the kadai.
Add the Kudampuli also
Pour the 2nd extract of coconut milk
Allow the mixture to boil till the prawns are cooked well and the gravy content will be reduced by now.
Then pour the 1st extract of coconut milk. The gravy will be thickened.
Switch off the stove after 2 mins.




Fish vevichathu

Another great dish of Kerala

Ingredients: -

Fish pieces (1 kg cleaned)
1. Ginger (1 small piece, cut into long slices)
2. Garlic (3 pods, cut into long slices)
3. Fenugreek seeds (1 ts)
4. Mustard seeds
5. Salt, curry leaves & Oil
6. Kudampuli (5 nos)(You can see the same in photo provided)
7. Coconut milk (1 cup)
8. Chilly powder (2 tbs)
9. Coriander powder (1/2 tbs)
10. Turmeric powder
11. water (2 cups)

Method: -

Pour 2 tbs of oil in a kadai
Put the mustard and fenugreek seeds and allow them to splutter
Keep the burner in low flame and put the chilly powder. Before the chilly powder becomes brown, remove the kadai from the stove.
In a separate kadai, put the fish, above fried mixture (step 3), coriander powder, curry leaves, ginger, garlic, turmeric powder and salt.
Pour water to the above mixture
Once the fish pieces are half cooked pour the coconut milk into the mixture.
Allow the mixture to boil till the fish pieces are fully cooked.
Once cooked, switch off the stove.

two little rowdies-Sarga

Sarga on Nataraja pose ;) at Thannermukkam on 22nd March 2008 with her parents

Let me tell you about our other little cute, Sarga. We call her Thakkudu. And her grand parents call her ‘Chakkara’. Her parents used to call her as 'Vavaachi'. She is my brother’s daughter. She has born in India, but living in UAE. Once in year she used take some vacations from her parents and will enjoy with her grant parents in native. II saw her fist when she was lass than 1 month old. She traveled to UAE ( Ras Al Khaimah) when she was less than 1 year old. Since she lives in native for some good duration, she can manage her life when her parents are away.

On her snack time

Her parents are working in UAE. Her father, my brother is a mechanical engineer and working for Synergy. Her mother is a civil Engineer and working for a construction and engineering company in UAE.

Sarga in swimming pool with her father (no body knows that her father can enter into kids pool only since he doesn't know swimming ;) )

Madam on Sunbath

She has lots of friends in her day care center in UAE. She is about 2.5 years old now and start talking her tiny words and needs. She might started taking in her mother tongue apart from Arabic(when she talks in her own language, we use to say to others that she know only Arab ;) ) . Now she use to say ‘kaakka’ ,‘poocha’ (basic words in her mother language). But, believe me, she must be the leader in her day care centre, she won’t allow others to dominate.

She has fear on her toy puppy; so avoiding ;)

Going for a rounds in her native

She like chicken, ice cream, chips and all she want in the original pack. If you offer few chips without the cover, she won’t accept it ;) Her taste is toys also will change in time to time. She likes swing very much when she was in native, but now she has a brand new piano presented by her parents.

In the favorate swing: - on her previous Villa at UAE

She use to go to her day care centre along with her mother in their WV Polo. She have a child seat in their car and she likes to sit in her seat. Before the seat installed, she prefer to be in boot space, more than the seats ;)

This little darling is a good artist too. She like to draw on her house walls ;) I am posting some snaps of her great arts.
Madam busy on her 'wall' paintings One of her greatest paintings

She use to visit other countries also when her parents when her father go for a business trips to Oman/ Muscat. She likes traveling. She was in her native for 2 months till April and she left to UAE along with her parents then. Expecting again this ‘Dubai kaari’ on next Jan or Feb when her parents come for their annual vacation. Her grant parents are eagerly waiting for her in Kerala.

Need two spoons ;)
It is easy to take care of her. Since she already spent time in native away from her parents, anybody can easily access her and she has hardly any restrictions. You will get lots of sweet kisses ( some times pinches and bytes too) even she is not in a good mood.

no hair :) new style

Time might change her characteristics and some times she will forget her easy deals when she back to home next time, but we love her and waiting to see her and waiting to get sweet kisses from her when we show your cheek to her without any hesitation.

two little rowdies-Shruthi

Hi,

Now I will tell you about two little rowdies, they are my nieces. They are Sarga and Shruthi.

Shruthi.

its me - Shruthi

The Little naughty is studying in her 4th standard. She is from Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district, Southern end of India. Her father Ganesh is doing business and mother Subashini, is an English lecturer in one the Engineering colleges (KNSK Engineering College) in Nagercoil. She is my wife’s sister.

Posing for a snap with her parents

I saw this little cute when she was 1 day old. My wife was my classmate at that time in my engineering college in her home town. So I have gone to the hospital to pay visit to my class mate’s sister’s daughter. Apparently she became by niece later J

enjoying the Sunset in Kanyakumari beach


Now Shruthi is studying in St:Joseph’s school, it is a very nice campus, inside the bishop’s house campus. She is soooo good in maths (latest mark is 20/50) but she thought that it is (20/25). And her role model in mathematics is me. Hmm.. no way to hide, when I attended my 3rd semester mathematics in engineering studies, I got 5/100 :( :( . I have lots of justifications to tell, but she is not ready to listen it and my mark is her justification for her less mark.
she love sea very much

She is very good in other extra curricular activities like drawing and painting etc. When she comes to Bangalore, she will come with some nice paintings and drawings. I will post it when she comes to Bangalore.



Her mum's college


She is very much crazy on dresses and chappels, not only she, her mother and my wife too. I have surprised to see how she is selecting her own dresses from show rooms, even when she was three year old. I think she will became a fashion designer, even her parents need to make her as a doctor or engineer, because she love to spend her time in front of mirror with her makeup sets. She has a big collection of bangles, tattoos, hair bands and slides, artificial pearl chains etc. Forgot to tell, now she observed that wearing chains and bangles are old styles, so she is avoiding those now a days :)

a smile can do lot



She is the queen in her house; break the house if she doesn’t like things. Rule everybody in house, but outside, you need to put your fingers in her mouth to find her tongue. They use to say that my wife was also like that. Hmm… it must be true ;).




ohhhhhhhhhhhhh





with her chitti




We love this little darling very much and missing her very much. She is planning to visit Bangalore on Next month, during her mid term exam leaves. I will post more snaps and news during that time.



on usual pose



her mum desparately need a nap
Madam is busy over phone.....

St:mary with infant Jesus facing sea at Kanyakumari beach

2007 Yearend Sunset at Kanyakumari

South Indian Fish Curry

Well, in my usual chat with wife in the evening, she has given another idea about the blog topic, she want to contribute her talents, yes; the cooking stuff. She need to post cooking tips in bolg, good na;) she is watching the cooking stuff almost in all channels and spending at least 10 hours per day. No way I can change the channel when Anjum anand or Nigella showing their tips in Travel& living channel or her favorite ‘Pachakaraani’ (Cooking queen) or ‘taste of Kerala’ are running on her channels.

Of course, she is good in cooking, especially south Indian dishes. She uses to prepare fish curry in different ways (Kerala style, Tamil style etc). So I thought of sharing one of her (mine too) favorite dishes. I am guaranteeing that you will enjoy this dish.



Recipe of South Indian Fish Curry with Mango

Ingredients

1
Coconut (1 cup scrambled)
Chilly powder (2 table spoon)
Turmeric powder (1/2 tea spoon)
Ginger (1 small piece)



Finely grind all the items of Ingredient 1 using sufficient water

2.Fresh Fish (500 grams) neatly cleaned and washed. You can use any fish, preferably seer fish.

3.Fenugreek seeds (1 tea spoon)

4.Tender mango (1 no) cut into medium pieces

5.Shallots (Sambar onion) 5 nos cut into small pieces

6.curry leaf for seasoning

7. Oil :- Any oil, like sun flower oil or coconut oil

8. Salt for taste


Method (step by step)

1. pour 1 table spoon oil into kadai
2. put fenugreek seeds into oil and fry it
3. Pour the coconut mixture (ingredient 1) into the kadai.
4. Once the mixture started boil, put fish
5. Once the fish is half cooked, put the mango pieces into the mixture.
6. Add sufficient salt for taste.
7. Put the burner in low flame and cook it for 20 mints. Fish and mango will be cooked by this time.



8. In a separate kadai pour 1 table spoon oil
9. fry the shallots and curry leaf, use 1 or 2 dried red chillies( Vathal Mulaku) if needed for garnishing.

10. One the shallots are fried, pour the content into the fish curry. Use coriander leaf for garnishing if you like it.

Bheemeshwari trip

Let me tell now about Bheemeshwari trip. Bheemeshwari is lying between Shivanasamudra falls and Mekedatu falls, in Mandya District, Karnataka. It was nice one.. As I mentioned earlier, it is around 100 plus kms away from Bangalore, you have to catch Kanakapura road from Bansankari. Road is good till Kanakapura. You can find the condition of road gets bad immediately after Kanakapura. We had our breakfast around 8:45 am on the way to Kanakapura. You can find lots of hotels on road sides, but our trip operator already made arrangements for us.

virgin banks of River Kaveri

in water

Almost all the way you can find the big pipes pumping water from River Cauvery to Bagalore for drinking water project. After Kanakapura you have to travel around 40-50 kms, but you cannot find any place name like ‘Bheemeswari’ in any boards. You can find the name like ‘Kaveri fishing camp’. And around 20 kms you have to travel through the forest. The road in forest area is good one, but narrow. Also the forest is not dense one. You cannot find much wild animals inside the forest except one or two foxes or moneys. You will lose your network connectivity before entering into the forest. In Bheemeswari, you can find Karnataka forest department office and honeymoon huts.

Getting down from Hill top

some fun at forest camp

one of the river made islands

If you need to trek into the forest, you need to get permission from forest department. Our tour operator already got it and we had the Trekking till the River Cauvery view point. Our operator arranged one local tribe guy to take care of us in case of some problems. It was a nice view to enjoy the beauty of River Cauvery from the hill top.

Then we walked from hill top to the banks of Kaveri through the forest. It was very steep and we reached the river in 15 minutes. Our guide, Mr.Prakash was not ready to allow us into the water, since it is raining time and any time the shutters of Krishnarajasagar dam can be open, then the water level will increase from 5 to 10 feet in one shot. But we managed to get into the water. You can find some snaps.

a tribal lady is engaged in fishing near forest camp
honey bees in forest

After the lunch at 1.30 arranged by our trip operator, we had some fun and team activates. Around 5 pm, we left the place and by 8.30 we reached Koramangala.

Totally it was a fun day.

ABCs of blog

Hmm… entering into a new area, blog writing J . Yes, today, 4th Aug 2008, I am starting my first blog. Last week, we had a team outing to Bheemeswari, a calm place 100 kms away from Bangalore, in the banks of river Kaveri. On the way, my friend Rahul was telling me to take some snaps to post on his blog. Yes, that’s the point which I start thinking about starting a blog.

I am not an expert in writing blog (like Rahul – you can find his blog in http://treasurethoughts.blogspot.com/) but thought to start.

I will write more about me, and the trip later.