Fish mugalai

Fish Mughlai

Ingredients

• Fish cleaned and cut into an inch cube pieces-500g
• Onion chopped-1 cup
• Tomatoes chopped-1cup
• Sunflower oil-2 tbsp.
• Chili powder-1tbsp.
• Green chilies slited-4
• Salt to taste
• Lemon juice-1tsp.

For grinding

• Coriander leaves-1/2 cup
• Mint leaves-1/2 cup
• Garlic chopped-1 ½ tbsp.
• Ginger chopped-1tbsp.
• Turmeric powder-1tsp

For garnishing

• Cube a green capsicum and an onion and sauté it in a tsp. of oil.   Make sure that the color doesn’t change

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Method

 

• Marinate the fish with enough salt and lemon juice and keep for 10min.
• Grind coriander leaves, mint leaves, ginger, garlic and turmeric to a fine paste.
• Sauté the onion in 2tbsp of oil for 2minutes (no need to make it brown).
• Add chili powder and stir it in a low flame till the raw smell is no more.
• Add the ground masalas and stir for another 4 minutes.
• Now add chopped tomatoes till the oil turns up.
• Add fish along with green chilies and a cup of water.
• Cook the fish in a low flame till the gravy is thick enough.
• Garnish with sautéed capsicum and onion and serve with rice or bread.