Fish or vegetable Caldin- Goan Food

Prep time : 15 mins

Cook time : 30 mins

Total time : 30 mins

Author :Vahchef

Main Ingredient : Fish

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Servings : 0 persons

Published date : November 02, 2016

Ingredients used in Fish or vegetable Caldin- Goan Food

• Ginger smashed (optional) - 1/2 pc piece.

• Hing/asofeotida - 1 pinch pinch.

• Curry leaves - 6-7 numbers.

• Broken dry red chillies - 4-5 numbers.

• Black pepper corns - 1/2 tspn teaspoons.

• Cummin seeds - 1 tspn teaspoons.

• Garlic whole smashed - 3-4 flakes clove.

• Garlic chopped - 1 tspn teaspoons.

• Large yellow onion - 1 numbers.

• Coconut milk (preferably not light) - One 8 oz can fl. oz..

• Pomfret or pompano fish or butter fish - 7 pcs numbers.

• Green chillies slit (optional) - 2 numbers.

• Veg oil - 1.5 tbspn tablespoons.

• Apple cider vinegar - 2tspns teaspoons.

• Sugar - 1/4 tspn teaspoons.

• Tumeric powder (haldi) - 1/2 tspn teaspoons.

• Salt - to taste.

Method:

Heat 1/2 tbspn coconut oil or veg oil in a skillet or wide saucepan. Add the onions and 1/2 tspn of cummin seeds and fry until the onions turns pink. Add choppd garlic and fry for a min.Add coconut milk and tumeric powder and bring to a boil. Add vineger and salt to taste while you keep stirring to prevent the vinegar from curdling the curry. Then place fish pcs in very gently and a lttle water if necessary and give the pan a gently shake . drop in the slit green chillies. Then take a tadka spoon or a smaller vessel. Add 1 tbspn oil. When the oil is hot add rest of the(1/2 tspn) cummin seeds. Smashed garlic, pepper corns, torn curry leaves, broken dry red chillies and smashed ginger.fry unti the garlic turns brown on either side making sure the cummin does not burn. Add a pinch of hing. By this time , the fish will be ready. Add this tadka hot to the fish curry , add sugar and again give it a gently stir making sure the fish does not break. Serve hot with rice and hot mango or sweet mango pickle. You can substitute fish for ochra, dudhi, shrimp/okhra or shrimp/dudhi or turnips plain or with shrimp