KERALA STYLE FISH CURRY MEALS

    Yet another set of recipes for a simple SUNDAY LUNCH MENU.  As special as it is - a Weekend, a day of rest... turns out to be a day of work for women folk.  A good rest & a relaxed mode asks for good food, & the women folk has to get busy planning the meal, cooking & cleaning.  Kudos to all Working Women out there... I am always at awe with their effortless multitasking between work & home.  

    Though most of the Sundays goes by with a default Lunch with Meat, Fish or Seafood also takes over the show on some Sundays.  And when the craving for a typical Kerala Style Fish Curry Meals hits to the core, I plan ahead, buy fish & prawns, clean them and store it in the freezer.  Then it goes along with the typical Menu I cook while I make a Fish Curry Meals, which always comprises Fish Curry, Fish Fry, Prawns, a Vegetable Thoran, Chammanthi or Chammanthi Podi and will finish off the Lunch with Curd.  When it comes to Fish Curry Meals I always make Kerala Matta Rice & Steamed Tapiocas to go along with it.

    A complete meal without Fish, Rice and/or Tapioca is quite rare in Kerala.  One main reason behind this is the long coastline of the State, and availability of fresh catch.  Kerala Cuisine has a tradition of its own, with an extreme combination of a cultural mix of locals and tradesmen from Portugal.  Dishes made out of Fish are relished by Keralites, that it has become a speciality in the dynamic culture of ’God’s Own Country'.  On the long run, it took some twists and turns to suit the palate of Kerala culture enhancing and enriching the tastes and flavours of the fish curry.     

    Fish Curry Meals would be devoured heads down by a Keralite. My husband says that he has seen working women(in Cochin) buy a few fish on their way back home.  He would say, maybe they would make a simple Curry or a fry for dinner. The fact is he loves this idea, buying a fresh catch and cooking it up immediately.

     I had never been a fan of Fish Curry Menu when I was a kid. Least to mention, I used to hate eating Tapiocas & Matta Rice.  I never felt a Fish Curry meals special until I was living in India. One good reason behind that was we never got fresh catch in our area.  Whatever kind of fish we got in Coimbatore, all came from coastal areas of Kerala & Tamil Nadu.  But when we started living in Malaysia & as the place is so close to the coastal line, there was no lack of fresh catch. There we invented the taste & flavour of fresh seafood.  I & my husband recreated our love for seafood since then. And whenever I travel to Cochin, I never miss a chance of eating a Fish Curry meals.  During few of our visits, we have travelled around to have an elaborate Seafood spread at Kallu Shappu(Toddy Shop)served along with the local hooch.

    So whenever a craving for Kerala Style Fish Curry Meals hits, I prepare a combination of dishes like how they serve in a restaurant or go ahead making Kerala Style Pothi Choru(packaged Lunch) which is our another favourite.  So here goes a combination of dishes which can be easily prepared if you are planning for a Kerala Style Fish Curry Meals. 

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Cuisine - Kerala
Menu - Lunch Menu
Difficulty - Medium
Author - SM

Preparation Time - 45 Minutes - 1 Hour.
Cooking Time - 2 Hours -21/2 Hours

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This Kerala Style Fish Curry Meals consists of:

• Kerala Matta Rice
• Kappa Puzhungiyathu/Boiled Tapioca
  
• Fish Curry with Raw Mangoes
  
• Kerala Style Nadan Fish Fry
• Prawns/Chemmeen Ularthiyathu
  
• Cheera Thoran(Stir-fried Spinach)
• Unakka Chemmeen Podi

*Can serve Pacha Manga Chammanthi/Mulagu Chalichathu or your choice of Condiment/Nadan Chammanthi in Fish Curry Meals.