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Fish Mappas





Fish/Meen Mappas


 Mappas is a popular recipe in Kerala and is made with fish or meat. This traditional dish has a rich creamy texture and is made with coconut milk. Here I am making with fish. This curry resembles a delicately flavored fish stew.  It goes well with appam or parotta.



Ingredients
Fish- 1 lb
Shallots- 1/2 cup
Tomatoes- 2 large
Green chilly- 2
Ginger- 2 inch
Garlic - 5
Chilly powder- 1tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder- 2 tsp
Coconut milk- thin- 1 cup
Coconut milk thick-3/4 cup
Vinegar- 2 tsp
oil 
salt
curry leaves


Clean fish and marinate with a little of turmeric, chilly powder and salt and fry it slightly and keep aside. (You can avoid this frying step  for large chunk fish like King fish)
Chop onions and tomatoes. Mince garlic, green chilly and ginger. 
In a separate bowl mix chilly powder, turmeric and coriander powder with little water and make a paste and set aside.
In a hot pan pour oil and splutter mustard seeds, and add the minced ginger and garlic and curry leaves and saute it for a minute. Add shallots and fry till it becomes golden brown and mix in the chilly coriander paste and fry it till oil separates and then add tomatoes. Allow tomatoes to get completely cooked and pour in thin coconut milk and allow it to boil. Slide in the fish pieces, cover and cook in medium heat.When fish is almost cooked add vinegar( adding vinegar is optional). Finally add the thick coconut milk and take off from the heat after a minute, just before it starts to boil. Quick and easy Mappas is ready.


Try this...


Hope you will all enjoy.


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  1. UnknownMay 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM

    Yummy fish mappas..Love it with appam..

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  2. TREAT AND TRICKMay 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM

    Looks great Suja, really delicious....

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  3. GayathriRajMay 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM

    Hey thats so tempting and looking great.... :)

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  4. PranisKitchenMay 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM

    the pic says its so delicious..so what to say more about it.looks so inviting,..nice color..one of our favorite dish.i love to have it with chapathi.suja really yummy da..feeling to taste some..sure i am going to prepare it this week .
    Which fish u used here.pomfret

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  5. NishaMay 18, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    Kandittu kothiavannu :)

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  6. SunithaMay 18, 2010 at 1:55 PM

    Hm... looks great.. I add some garam masala to it but will have to try it without it like you have done.. thanks for sharing

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  7. Suman SinghMay 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM

    that looks so tempting and delicious...nice pics too...thanks for sharing this Suja!

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  8. SujiMay 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM

    Vayi kappalodikam epol Suja..Love to have mappas with appams..Ayo kothi varunallo...

    Love
    Kairali sisters

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  9. NithaMay 18, 2010 at 5:02 PM

    That looks so delicious and tempting... A combo with appam...

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  10. UnknownMay 18, 2010 at 5:17 PM

    new to blog....each and every dish of ur blog looks so tempting and gorgeous....glad to be in touch with u....

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  11. Sanyukta Gour(Bayes)May 18, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    wow..superyummy..spicy bful color,inviting...love with cumin ric...

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  12. ARUNAMay 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM

    Looks soo tempting! Making me drool.

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  13. Sushma MallyaMay 18, 2010 at 9:10 PM

    wow that looks gorgeous, very tempting suja...awesome one...

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  14. Priya SureshMay 19, 2010 at 12:35 AM

    Lipsmacking fish mappas, looks super delicious..

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  15. SathyaSridharMay 19, 2010 at 2:53 AM

    Wooow fish mappas looking delicious dear makes me hungryyyyy..

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  16. Life is beautiful !!!May 19, 2010 at 4:11 AM

    Nice name for the dish :) Keralite dishes are always yum...:)

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  17. Gita JaishankarMay 19, 2010 at 8:04 AM

    Thanks for sharing this tasty dish dear..looks so spicy and yum :)

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  18. NamithaMay 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM

    kidilan....drooling now

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  19. SrideviMay 19, 2010 at 8:46 AM

    Creamy mappas, like to have it with Iddiappams. Nice picture as well.

    Thanks for visiting www.jiboombaa.com. You have got good collections of recipes here.

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  20. Suja ManojMay 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM

    Thanks everyone for stopping by and for the sweet comments and for the encouragement.

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  21. MadhuMay 19, 2010 at 12:10 PM

    Lovely blog and lovely recipes. I am gonna try this fish for sure.

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  22. HayleyMay 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM

    Hi Suja
    thanks for visiting me you have nice space too..happy to follow you and lovely fish dish..

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  23. Magic of SpiceMay 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM

    I would love to try this:) Beautiful!

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  24. Suja ManojMay 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    Thanks Madhu, Jagruti and Magic of spices for stopping by..Welcome to my blog.
    Do visit often.

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