Shrimp Pasta

Need a feel of an gourmet Italian restaurant???..Try this out

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 or 2 white onion
• 1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 5 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 kg pasta
• 2 tomatoes, chopped
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• Shredded mozarella cheese (as required)

Directions

1. In a medium skillet over medium heat, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil. Cook shrimp, garlic and white onion for 5 minutes, or until shrimp is pink. Remove shrimp with slotted spoon and set aside.
2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain and keep aside.
3. While pasta is cooking, cook tomatoes with remaining 1 tablespoon oil, oregano and basil over medium heat along with tomato sauce until tender, 10 minutes.
4. Line a baking dish with pasta, topped with tomato shrimp mixture and generously top it with shredded mozarella cheese. Bake for around 10-15 mts till cheese has completely melted. Serve hot.

Fish Cutlet

Ingredients:

• ½ kg fish
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• 1 tsp garlic paste
• 1 bread slice
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 1 egg
• ½ tsp garam masala powder
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 1-2 green chillies
• 1 bunch coriander leaves
• salt to taste
• oil for frying
• ½ tsp turmeric powder

Method:

• Rub fish with salt & turmeric powder. Wash after 5 min.
• Steam fish over a pan of hot water and remove all the bones.
• Mash it with hands. Add ginger- garlic paste, salt, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, cornflour, coriander leaves, green chillies, bread slice (soaked in water & squeezed).
• Mix all these ingredients & make cutlets of round or any shape you like.
• Beat egg lightly. Dip cutlet in egg and roll them in bread crumbs.
• Heat oil. Oil should not be very hot.
• Fry till brown and serve with tomato sauce.

Grilled Fish (Indian Style)

For those who are on a diet and for seafood lovers, this grilled fish is simply perfect. Usually the entire fish is grilled and served along with some salad or with a main meal. I have used pomfret fish here and it can be substituted with any other fish… Why not try this recipe to enjoy a soft, healthy and a yummy seafood? 

Ingredients:

• 1 large Pomfret, cut into pieces
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• Salt

Grind for the marinade:

• 1 1/2 tsp red pepper powder
• 2 cloves of Garlic
• 1 tsp Coriander seeds
• 15 ml Vinegar
• 1/4 tsp Amchur powder
• 2 tsp Lemon juice
• a pinch of Fenugreek seeds
• 8 gms Ginger

For the seasoning:

• 1/2 tbsp cumin seeds
• 2 tbsp Amchur powder
• 1 tbsp Ghee
• Salt to taste

Method:
1. Wash and dry the fish.
2. Make slits all over. Rub in the lemon juice and salt.
3. Keep aside for an hour.
4. Rub the marinade paste into the fish pieces and marinate for 2 hours.
5. Grill in an oven for 10-15 minutes. If you dont have an oven, you may grill it on a pan sprayed with lil oil.
6. Season and serve hot with chopped onions and slit green chillies.

Fish Curry with Coconut

This is one of our traditional way of cooking fish with grinded raw coconut and it’s often called “Pachai Thengai Curry”. Since Kaniyakumari district is located in the border of kerala (South India), you will find that most of their cooking style is similar to kerala cuisine….

Coconut and Kerala goes hand in hand and Coconuts are used extensively in the delicious cuisine of this state. Mallus eat a lot of fish and so are the kaniyakumari dist people… this is one of our fish preparation where the spices are grounded with fresh coconut & cooked with fish and seasoned with curry leaves.  If prepared in coconut oil, it gives a nice flavor and aroma..

Ingredients:

• Raw mango – 1 (large sized, sliced into pieces)
• Green chillies – 4, medium sized, slit
• Salt as per taste
• Fish – 500 gms, cut into big pieces

Grind into a smooth paste:

• Tamarind – 1 (marble sized)
• Onion- 1 , chopped
• Chilli powder – 1-2 tsp
• Coconut – 1 cupTurmeric powder – ½ tsp

For seasoning

• Aniseeds – 1 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

Grind the ingredients mentioned under grinding into a smooth paste. Add the slit green chilies to it. In a pan, season oil with the seeds. Put in the cleaned curry leaves. Add the grounded mixture and allow it to boil for sometime. Add the fish pieces, salt and cook till it’s done….In 10 mts flat, this simple fish curry will be ready and you can serve it hot with rice. Raw mango/drumsticks can be added to this curry according to one’s preference..

Spicy Prawns – A real treat for fish lovers

Ingredients
Prawns – 1/2 kg (cleaned)
Onions  (finely chopped)
Tomato (finely chopped)
Red chillies – 2
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tbsp
Chilli Powder – 2 tbsp
Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder – 1 tbsp
Ginger Garlic Paste – 2 tbsp
Oil

Method
When the oil in the pan is hot, put mustard seeds and red chillies. When it splutters, put onions and saute it till it becomes golden brown.
Then add tomato and wait till it is cooked well and smashed in oil.
Add prawns and saute for a while. After 5 minutes add ginger garlic paste and saute continuously for 5 more minutes.
Add chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder mix well and add 1/2 glass of water and stir. Wait till the water is evaporated and the oil separates from the dish.
Decorate it with finely chopped coriander leaves.
Delicious spicy prawns is ready now and you can serve it with Plain Rice and Sambar.

Fish Manchurian

Again coming up with a dish from my favourite Chinese Cuisine…. Hmmm, this is one of my easy/hate-to-cook recipes ie when i have no mood to cook on a lazy holiday afternoon yet i need to make some spl stuff, then chinese cuisine is my choice..moreover it  gives dual advantage……………..”Tasty” and “Takes Less time”

You could quickly make this along with a Veg Pulao / Fried Rice to enjoy a perfect and a tasty holiday lunch…takes around 30 mts if the fish is handy…Ok…Now let’s get into this recipe.

Fish Manchurian

Ingredients

1. Any Fish (I used Baracuda)
2. Soy Sauce
3. Ginger cut into small pieces
4. Garlic cut into small pieces
5. Onion cut into small pieces
6. All purpose flour
7. Egg – 1
8. Bell pepper – 1 cut into small pieces
9. Chilli powder, salt, black pepper to taste

Preparation:

1) Mix the all purpose flour, beaten egg, ginger garlic paste, salt, 
chilli powder to make a paste.
2) Add the fish to the paste and deep fry the fish. If you have enuf time, you can keep it marinated for 1 hr.
4) Heat a little oil in a pan and fry the onions, bell pepper, ginger 
and garlic pieces.
5) Add the soy sauce and let it boil.
6) Add the fried fish pieces to the boiling mixture. Add cornflour mixed in water to the above mixture to get a gravy consistency. Finally add some chopped spring onions.