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Mar14

Fish Rice Recipe /Meen Sadham / How to make Meen Soru

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I just loved to try different food, so when it comes to lunch, I got to see few pieces of fish lying in my refrigerator and I am sure that it would not be enough for my family to prepare a curry or fry. Next to that found some dill leaves lying in the refrigerator, recently I have joined to master class with Chef Gordon Ramsay and I got remember that he told – Dill leaves goes out well with Fish. As a resulted thought of combining both fish and dill leaves together as a recipe, which resulted in my fish rice.

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Fish rice was delicious, aromatic with the strongly flavored dill leaves. Fish with little bones are highly recommended for this recipe, whereas it consumes time when there more bones. A perfect rice for kids, where fish comes without bones. Give a try, let me share the recipe…

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Fish Rice / Meen Sadham

Ingredients:

  • Fish pieces – 6 nos (250 gm)
  • Dill leaves – 5 stalks
  • Steamed Rice – 2 ½ cups
  • Fennel seeds – ¼ tsp
  • Onion – 1 no
  • Garlic – 6 to 8 cloves
  • Cumin powder – 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder – 1 tsp
  • Lemon juice – 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Fish getting boiled
After getting boiled
Fish crumbled to pieces
With olive oil, fennel seeds, onions and garlic
With dill leaves
With crumbled fish
Getting cooked
With pepper powder and garam masala
With steamed rice
Getting cooked
Fish Rice / Meen Sadham

Preparation:

  • Clean the fish and keep it aside.
  • Heat 2 cups of water in a heavy bottomed vessel, add the fish pieces once the water starts boiling.
  • Peel and finely chop the onions and garlic into pieces, keep it aside.
  • Once the fish is boiled, drain the water and wait until the fish comes to room temperature.
  • Take of the skin, carefully remove the bones and crumble the fish, keep it aside.
  • Heat oil in a kadai, add the fennel seeds followed by onion and garlic, cook until they turn golden brown color in color.
  • Add the crumbled fish, followed by pepper powder, cumin powder and salt, cook until the raw smell goes off.
  • Pluck the dill leaves from the stalk, finely chop them and sprinkle half the quantity of it to the fish.
  • Add the rice, salt if required for rice and stir it well.
  • Make sure that the rice becomes dry and blends well with fish.
  • Sprinkle the leftover dill leaves, give a stir and remove it from fire.

Serve hot with any gravy. You can pair this fish rice with coconut prawn curry.

Sep2

Prawn 65 / Prawn Deep Fry

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Prawn 65 is a crispy and soft dish which can be served as starter, snack or as side dish. It is a very simple, easy, delicious dish, which would be the favorite of kids. Let me the recipe…

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Prawn 65 / Prawn Fry

Prawn 65 / Prawn Fry

Ingredients:

  • Prawns – ½ kg
  • Chilli powder – 4 tsp
  • Besan / Gram flour /chick peas flour – 1 tbsp
  • Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tbsp
  • Cumin powder – 2 tsp
  • Curry leaves – 5 sprigs
  • Food colour (red) – ½ tsp (optional)
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying

Making of Prawn 65 / Prawn Deep Fry –

Preparation:

  • Clean the prawns and keep it aside.
  • Take a wide mouth bowl, add prawns, chilli powder, besan or gram flour, ginger-garlic paste, cumin powder, and curry leaves and salt.
  • Mix them all together with your hands, add the food colour if you need, then lemon juice, mix well with your hands.
  • Marinate for 20 mins.
  • Heat oil in a kadai, gently drop in the marinated prawns and deep fry them for 2 mins or until they are fried.

Serve hot.

May25

Fiery Dried Prawns Sambal

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This is my 4th #foodventure – UNCOMMON FOOD. When it comes to uncommon food, what would I prefer being born and brought up in Tuticorin (south Tamil Nadu), coastal area familiar for fish, salt and port. Yes, it’s going to be a seafood, thought of trying maasi (Maldives Dry fish) but I am out of stock at home (Bangalore), so thought of trying Dried Prawns which I use to get every time I visit my hometown or my mom gets whenever she comes to visit me.

When it comes to UNCOMMON FOOD – I googled and found out countable recipes with this dried prawns, but I decided to try something different from all these. There stuck the idea for Sambal – a typical hot sauce made from a mixture of variety of chili as a primary ingredient and the other as secondary ingredients which I had in Malaysia.

As a result here comes my Fiery Dried Prawns Sambal – I was little worried when I start preparing whether the kids would like because of the chilies. But my kids liked it to the core, I made a sandwich for them, I and my hubby had it with Dosa. But my kids liked it a lot and also tired it with dosa. My daughter told, “This being a perfect non-veg substitute for idly chili powder”, happy to hear it. Let me share the recipe…

Fiery Dry Prawns Sambal
Dried prawns

Ingredients:

  • Dried Prawns – ¾ cup
  • Pearl onions – ¼ kg
  • Garlic – 8 cloves
  • Red chilies – 12 nos
  • Vinegar – 1 ½ tsp
  • Coconut oil – 3 tbsp.
  • Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
  • Split Blackgram – ½ tsp
  • Curry leaves – a sprig
  • Salt to taste
Dried prawns
Pearl onions and garlic getting toasted in coconut oil
Dry prawns getting toasted in coconut oil
All the toasted ingredients together for room temperature
All the ingredients about to grind with red chilies
About to grind with coconut oil
Paste got ready
Getting tempered with mustard, split black gram and curry leaves
Getting cooked and oil separating
Fiery Dry Prawns Sambal

Preparation:

  • Soak the dried prawns in a bowl of water for 15 mins (there may be sand particles in the prawns), take out the prawns and pour the water (you can see the sand particles deposited in the bottom).
  • Soak the red chilies in water for 15 mins, drain the water and keep it aside.
  • Peel the onions and garlic. Keep it aside.
  • Heat a tsp of coconut oil in a pan, add in the onions, garlic and cook until they turn golden brown. Transfer it to a plate.
  • Add in the dried prawns along with a tsp of oil and cook for 3 mins. Transfer it to the onions plate and wait until it comes to the room temperature.
  • Take all the together along with the red chilies and grind to a fine paste by adding ¼ cup of water and 2 tsp of oil.
  • Heat the leftover oil in the pan, add in the mustard, split black gram and curry leaves. Wait until they crackle.
  • Pour in the grounded paste to the tawa and pour in the vinegar, add salt if required.
  • Cook on medium flame by stirring continuously, else it would be burnt.
  • Cook until the colour of the sambal changes to dark red or until the oil separates and gets along the sides and top of the sambal.
  • Transfer it to a bowl.

Serve hot. This goes out well with idly, dosa, chapathi for breakfast or dinner and with steamed rice and a dollop of sesame oil or with any variety rice for lunch.

Fiery Dry Prawns Sambal Sandwich
Fiery Dry Prawns Sambal with Dosa

Note: You can also prepare this in large quantity, bring it to room temperature and refrigerate them in an air tight container for almost a month. Don’t reduce the amount of oil, the right amount of oil brings out the right color, texture and flavor.

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