Fish Curry without Fish / Meenillatha Meen Curry / Vazhakka – Manga Curry / Plantain and Mango Curry

It is the Lent season and many will be wondering what to cook. Though I am not fasting, Hubby on his short trip to Kerala brought some good stuff from our kitchen garden. Yam, raw banana, coconut, raw mangoes, curry leaves and even the small jack fruit! Hence I needed no excuse to make the following curry which the household has enjoyed earlier.

Fish Curry without Fish / Meenillatha Meen Curry / Vazhakka – Manga Curry / Plantain and Mango Curry

Ingredients:

1.       Plantain or raw banana – 1 cup (sliced lengthwise)
2.       Mango – a few pieces as per the sourness / or a small ball of tamarind
3.       Green Chilly – 3 or 4 cut lengthwise
4.       Turmeric powder – ½ Tspn
5.       Salt – as needed

For grinding to a fine paste
6.       Whole coriander seeds – ½ tspn or 1 tspn coriander powder
7.       Chilly powder – 2 Tspn
8.       Small onions – 6 pieces
9.       Coconut – 1 cup scraped

Method

Boil ingredients 1-5 with 1 cup of water until it is half cooked (If you are using tamarind instead of mango, add it when the banana is half cooked). Add the ground paste to this and let it cook well. You can either add fresh coriander leaves or splutter mustard/small onions to garnish.

Curry ready to be had with rice. It is veryyyyyyyyy tasty!