South Indian
Kerala Coconut Fish Curry
Kerala Coconut Fish Curry is South Indian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb firm white fish fillets
- 13.5 oz coconut milk
- 1 onion
- 2 tomato
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 15 curry leaves
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1.5 tsp Kashmiri chili powder
- 1 tbsp tamarind paste
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 4 cups cooked basmati rice
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the coconut oil in a wide pan and let the mustard seeds pop and the curry leaves crackle.
- Add the sliced onion, garlic, and ginger and cook until softened, about 6 minutes.
- Stir in the turmeric and chili powder, then add the chopped tomato and cook until saucy, about 5 minutes.
- Pour in the coconut milk and tamarind paste, season with salt, and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
- Slide in the fish pieces and simmer without stirring until just cooked through, about 8 minutes.
- Serve over the basmati rice.
Serve it with
A South Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kerala Coconut Fish Curry, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kerala Coconut Fish Curry carries fish and coconut. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Adai (Tamil Nadu Multi-Lentil Dosa) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Adai (Tamil Nadu Multi-Lentil Dosa) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Kerala Coconut Fish Curry takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on fish, coconut, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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