Fish molee or meen molee is a preparation where fish is stewed in mildly flavored yellow coconut gravy and tastes very good with rice
Fish – 500 gms (pomfret / pearl spot)
Onion – 2 nos (chopped)
Tomato – 2 nos (chopped)
Garlic – 10 cloves (chopped)
Ginger – ½ inch (julienned)
Green chili – 5 nos (slit and seeded)
Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Lime juice – 2 tbsp
Coconut milk – 1 and ½ cups
Oil – 2 tbsp
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Clean and cut fish into big chunky pieces
- Arrange onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, green chilies and curry leaves in this order in layers in a pan.
- Arrange the fish on top and sprinkle turmeric, salt and lime juice and pour about ¾ cup water
- Cover pan and cook on medium heat bringing it to boil
- Simmer the heat and let it cook for further 10 minutes
- Add coconut milk and simmer for 2-3 minutes and remove from heat
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in a small pan and add mustard seeds.
- Post it sputters, add the contents to fish molee and mix gently. Be careful not to break the cooked fish
- Serve
*you can use prawns in place of fish
* you can serve it with aapam, idiappam and pathriri too
Till next time…happy cooking!
Akshayapatram 