Kerala Style Fish curry with coconut milk (Meen vevichathu) Recipe

Fish cooked in spices, coconut milk, and cocum. It is the typical Trichur style fish curry. A great combination with rice 🙂 It’s one of my favorite recipe passed down from mom and grand mom.

Summary

(511 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5)

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Course side dish
Cuisine kerala
Yield 4 serving
Cooking Time 25 minutes
Preparation Time 10 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

fish

1/2 Kilogram

shallot / small onion

ginger

1 Teaspoon

Thick coconut milk

1/2 Cup

Medium thick coconut milk

1 Cup

green chilli

turmeric powder

1/2 Teaspoons

Chilly powder

2 Teaspoons

coriander powder

2.5 Teaspoons

Cocum ( Kudam Puli)

curry leaves

salt

Steps

Soak cocum (kudampuli) in 4 tbsp salted luke warm water for 15 - 20 minutes.
Heat oil in a pan. Saute small onion , ginger , green chilly and curry leaves.
Once onion turned light brown, add turmeric, chilly and coriander powder. Keep it in low flame. Saute it well.
Add thick and medium coconut milk. Add water in which cocum was soaked. Taste the mixture and add soaked cocum pieces as required. Add enough salt. Keep it in low flame.
Bring it to boil and then add cleaned fish pieces. Cook it till fish gets cooked and gravy is consistent. It would take around 20 minutes.
Garnish with fried small onions and curry leaves.

Kerala Style Fish curry with coconut milk (Meen vevichathu)

4 Comments

Rinu Joseph do we add thick milk along with medium milk. wont it get curdled?

5 years ago
Jane Jojo @Rinu, You can add thick and medium milk together. Make sure that , you keep it in low flame throughout. And just stir it in between.

5 years ago
Alagu Looks Yum!

3 years ago
Jane Jojo Thanks Alagu :)

3 years ago
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