If you love fish, you have got to taste this curry! This is an aromatic, ‘oh so fragrant’, ‘tantalizing to the taste buds’ type of curry.! It has the flavors of so many spices – this recipe uses the SriLankan Curry powder, which I posted last week. All you need is some rice and some ‘alone’ time where you can enjoy the different layers of flavor this curry offers you – the bitterness of fenugreek with the heat of red chillies, the earthy taste of fennel and coriander, the sourness due to the tamarind and finally the rich creamy texture from the coconut milk. The fish pieces are soft and they melt in your mouth and they taste heavenly having soaked in all the spices from the curry. And this is coming from me who as you know is so passionate about her Kerala Fish curry. Well that still remains my number #1 Recipe for fish probably because I grew up eating it. But this one comes a close second! I could not have enough of this curry – I threw some rice into the almost empty pot just so I could get the last bits of the curry into the rice. It would have been a sin to waste any bit of this curry.!
OK So where did I get this recipe from? I browsed through some recipes on the internet. And watched a couple videos on youtube. This recipe is based on a combination of different recipes I saw and this video which is of a local chef sharing his fish curry recipe. Kerala Fish curry that I have posted uses Kodampuli which gives it the distinctive taste. Some Kerala Fish curry recipes also use tamarind but I had never made a tamarind fish curry until now. I am thinking that next time I shall try this recipe using Kodampuli since tamarind is not very good for my arthritis. We will worry about that later but for now enjoy this curry coming to you from my virtual tour of SriLanka. I am bringing this flavorful, delicious entree to Fiesta Friday this week.
I also did a video for this recipe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APFQFiLFU7s
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I’m not a big fan of fish curries, but yours looks so good and inviting! 🙂
thanks so much. Yes we love fish curries and this one was pretty good!
At a Christmas party last night I met a woman from Sri Lanka and we spoke about food of course, the wonderfully spiced cuisine and here you come serendipitously tempting our palates at FF with a dish from Sri Lanka! Thank you Indu.
Wow! that’s indeed serendipity, Johanne! Now you have got to absolutely make this curry! 🙂 I bet you won’t be disappointed!
This is one of my favorite dishes when we go out to dinner at an Indian restaurant. I will have to try making my own. What would you substitute for pandan leaves? I’ve never seen them here. And, I’ve never heard that tamarind is bad for arthritis???
Thank you for bringing this to FF.
Hi Liz, I don’t know of a good substitute to panda leaves – i just recently started using these myself. I got them (frozen pandan leaves) from an asian grocers.I am sure that the curry will still taste delicious even without them.! As for tamarind and arthritis, some folks say it is bad – I am not sure. right now I am trying to avoid too much of it that’s all. 🙂
Your fish curry looks really delicious, Indu! 🙂
thanks Linda
Yes please! I adore cury and this sounds incredible.
well if you like curry then you will indeed love this. The fish pieces in this curry soak in all the flavors of the curry and hence having fish in curry is what we love! 🙂
I have had lots of curry before, but not with fish. This looks wonderful 🙂
Sarah you should try this curry then. Cooking fish in a curry sauce makes it very moist and soft. Plus this sauce itself is phenomenal with all the different spices.
Oh my fish curries have got to be my weakness. Your Sri Lankan fish curry looks so tempting, would love to try it myself. What kind of fish did you use?
ha ha you are just like me. i used Kind Mackerel fish. We get it from our local Chinese/Asian supermarket – they carry fresh fish. But you could try with any other fish and /filets too.
Yes, we have a similar International supermarket too, and wow, you should see the variety of fish, even pomfrets. Love mackerel 🙂
oh Pompfrets wow! We don’t get those here! I should come visit you! 🙂
I love fish, and my auntie used to make it kind of like this in sauce, such good memories thanks for sharing!
You are welcome. Yes it is indeed delicious. I love fish too 🙂