Fish curry is as essential to a Malayalee as water is to fish 🙂 I have already posted the typical Kerala fish curry that is cooked most often in our home. That curry uses coconut milk and kodampuli (a variety of kokum that is indigenous to Kerala). The version I am posting today is the […]
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Yam and Coconut Soup (Elephant foot yam curry)
Elephant foot yam? Now what is that? My kids were stumped. What a weird name! But if you see this yam, which is like a super large yam or potato, it does indeed resemble an elephant’s foot! In Indian cuisine this yam is used in almost every region although it is called by different names […]
Kerala Shrimp Coconut Curry (Chemeen Thengarachu Curry)
There are several varieties of seafood preparations in Kerala cuisine. The three types of fish / shrimp curries that my amma would make were brown curry, red curry and yellow curry — the brown being the most hot and spicy. She had labeled them as such for us kids since the actual traditional names are ‘a […]
Kerala Style Fish Curry (with green mangoes or kodampuli)
Here’s my recipe for Kerala style Fish curry using coconut milk. The hallmark of the kerala fish curry is the tangy or sour taste which it gets from either Kodampuli (kokum) or from green (raw) mangoes. In my video I have used raw(green) mangoes but you can use the same recipe for making Fish […]