{"id":1296,"date":"2014-07-05T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2014-07-07T21:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:10:41","slug":"ayala-varutharacha-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/ayala-varutharacha-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayala-Varutharacha Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1300\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/ayala-varutharacha-curry\/p2s_ayalacurry\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1300\" alt=\"P2S_AyalaCurry\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P2S_AyalaCurry.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P2S_AyalaCurry.jpg 624w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P2S_AyalaCurry-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0d05\u0d2f\u0d32- \u0d35\u0d31\u0d41\u0d24\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d30\u0d1a\u0d4d\u0d1a \u0d15\u0d31\u0d3f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ayala (\u0d05\u0d2f\u0d32 ) OR Mackerel is a typical fish variety in South \u00a0Indian states and belong to common species of fish found in both temperate and tropical seas. But I felt that the mackerel commonly available in sea-food markets in bay-area tastes entirely different from that I used have in India. \u00a0I tried this recipe when I got the traditional Indian-Mackerel (frozen) from a Chinese store.<\/p>\n<p>Thanga varutharacha \u00a0(\u0d24\u0d47\u0d19\u0d4d\u0d19 \u0d35\u0d31\u0d41\u0d24\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d30\u0d1a\u0d4d\u0d1a\u00a0 )curry style is very typical to the state of Kerala. There is variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian side dishes in this recipe style you can see in Kerala cuisine, such as with chicken, Potato, fish. \u00a0I applied this style in some of my earlier recipes shared.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fish\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 4<\/li>\n<li>Chopped Ginger\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 1 T sp.<\/li>\n<li>Curry leaves\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 2 strig<\/li>\n<li>Green chilly (splitted) : 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>For masala \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Grated coconut\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 1 \u00bd C<\/li>\n<li>Pepper cone : 1 T sp.<\/li>\n<li>Chilli powder\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 4 T sp.<\/li>\n<li>Coriander powder\u00a0 : 2 T sp.<\/li>\n<li>Turmeric powder\u00a0\u00a0 : \u00bc T sp.<\/li>\n<li>Fenugreek seeds\u00a0\u00a0 : 10<\/li>\n<li>Chopped garlic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 1 T sp.<\/li>\n<li>Tamarind\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : Gooseberry size.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clean the fish and cut into pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Fry the\u00a0coconut until the color turns brown in medium flame. Make sure not to burn the coconut while frying.<\/li>\n<li>Add the masala ingredients except tamarind and fry the mix for another 2 minutes or until the raw smell gone.<\/li>\n<li>Switch off the flame and allow the mix to cool completely.<\/li>\n<li>Put the fried coconut mixture along with tamarind and powder it.<\/li>\n<li>As you see the oil started coming from the mixture add some water and make a fine paste.<\/li>\n<li>In a mudpot\/ pan\/ kadai add the coconut-masala mixture along with ginger, curry leaves , green chilli and enough salt.<\/li>\n<li>Add enough water (here I used about 2 cup water)\u00a0and mix everything .<\/li>\n<li>Keep it in the stove and let it boil.<\/li>\n<li>Once it boiled well add the fish and close the lid.<\/li>\n<li>Cook the fish about 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1301\" alt=\"DSC_1200\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_1200.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_1200.jpg 626w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_1200-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Tips:-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Adjust the quantity of masala ingredients according to your taste.<br \/>\nInstead of Putting the tamarind in the mixie , you can soak it in the water and squeeze the extract and add in the fish curry .<br \/>\nWhile frying the coconut for more flavor we can add some coconut oil .<br \/>\nFor the better taste of fish curry one may consider using it in the next day (as conventionally done in Kerala).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayala (\u0d05\u0d2f\u0d32 ) OR Mackerel is a typical fish variety in South \u00a0Indian states and belong to common species of fish found in both temperate and tropical seas. But I felt that the mackerel commonly available in sea-food markets in bay-area tastes entirely different from that I used have in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kerala-specials","category-non-vegetarian","category-side-dish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}