Mom's Fish Curry

This looks exactly like how my Mom cooks fish curry.Tasted as good. Love you mom...
First few times I cooked the fish curry in my mother's style, I had to juggle between the phone and the skillet, like I did most of my dishes during the early days when I started to cook a few years back, when I decided it was enough- depending upon Street food. After spending years in Hostels and suchlikes, I decided to take it into my own hands. Being the independent kind, it was too much having to depend on others for a meal eh... and Home, I visit only about twice a year. My favorite holiday spot you see.... Five star treatment, Mother's Food, etc etc. Oh! I have been staying away since I was 10, and now I am at wrong side of bachelorhood already...
Oh so I started learning to cook too. And do away with that horrible delivered tiffin or hotels yuck..
How often would you go to a fancy restaurant for dinner. At one point of time I used to have chicken fried rice everyday at this hotel, and another point I had this veg pulao everyday. Yuck!!! to think back.
Then Mobile phone happened, and I did a tele-cooking course, long distance lol from mom.the fish curry was one of the first I learnt.Mom has a unique way of cooking it.
We use the same masala as everyone else, like everyone does. Good cookiong is in the timing, like all good Maharaj's say back home. You know those Brahmin maharaj, who cooks the grand feast.The better ones uses the same masala as the OK ones.
It is all there in the timing.
When you put the salt, and when you put that turmeric..
The right brown of the onions...

Oh! The Fish Curry...

Ingredients:

5-6 Rohu Fish steak, Shallow fried on both side till colour changes to darkish yellow. ( Little lighter than this)

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Blogger is fine now... The server was down for a long time yesterday..
Sorry, and hey.. I SEEM to have been neglecting my blog a lot..tsk tsk...
I haven't updated in 3 days...hmmphhh!


Other than the fried steaks, You will need,

One large Poatato cut into thin cubes like you see above.
One medium or small onion chopped fine.
1 TSp of ginger garlic paste ( best is the home crushed one)
1 tsp each of Jeera and Methi soaked in water.
Bayleaves
Pinch of heeng
Half a cup of green peas, frozen ones will do ( Optional if peas are not available)
Two tomatoes chopped roughly.
Two green chillis sliced in halves.

3/4th tsp each jeera powder and dhania powder and red chilli powder, and
Some turmeric, 1/3rd to half a Tsp depending on the quality of turmeric mixed.
Mix the jeera powder, dhania powder, turmeric and chilli powder and make into a thin paste buy adding water.


Heat 2 tbs Mustard oil, heat till fumes arises, and there are no more bubbles.
{bubbles form when you heat mustard oil}

Add 2 bayleaves, and add the pre-soaked whole methi and jeera.
Add a pinch of Heeng.
Immediately add the onions and fry till slightly golden brown.
Add the ginger garlic paste.
Add the potatoes and peas, and saute for a few minutes.
Cover and cook in very low heat for five minutes.
Add the thin masala paste.
Saute for 5 more minutes and Add the fish.
Saute very lightly so that fish don't break yet mixes well with the masala.
Lower heat and cook in low heat for about 10 minutes, turning the same from time to time so that it don't get burned. Add the tomatoes in bewteen about halfway.

Add 3 cups of hot water. Add salt to taste.
Let it boil and cook for 10 more minutes in medium heat.
Check if potatoes are cooked. ( by pressing with back of spoon)

When potatoes are cooked, garnish with coriander and eat with Rice..
Yummmm

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