Meen Moilee/Molee - Kerala style fish stew with Salmon
Meen Moilee/Molee - Kerala style fish stew with Salmon

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Kerala Fish (Meen) Molee / Moilee - Kerala Style Fish Stew is a classy gravy which is famous among Kerala's Syrian Christians. It is made by marinating the fish in masala and frying it. Next, the fried fish is cooked in coconut milk with very low spice and other ingredients.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook meen moilee/molee - kerala style fish stew with salmon using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Meen Moilee/Molee - Kerala style fish stew with Salmon:
  1. Get 15 Cashew nuts -
  2. Prepare 450 gm Fish - ( I prefer Salmon fillet)
  3. Take 2 tablespoons Butter Oil / -
  4. Get 5 Cloves -
  5. Prepare 4 - 5 Cardamom - lightly crushed -
  6. Take 1 or 1 Bay leaves cinnamon - -
  7. Prepare 1 Onion finely chopped -
  8. Prepare 7 - 8 Curry leaves -
  9. Make ready 5 Garlic thinly sliced -
  10. Get 1/2 Ginger chopped - thumb sized
  11. Make ready 7 - 8 Green chili (or as per your heat level.) slit -
  12. Prepare 1/4 to 1/2 Turmeric tea - spoon
  13. Get 1 big 2 Tomato diced - plump or medium
  14. Make ready 1/2 to 3/4 cup + 1/2 to 1 cups Coconut milk Canned -
  15. Take to taste Salt
  16. Get 1/4 to 1/2 Garam masala tea - spoon ( Homemade)
  17. Make ready 1/2 1 Black peppercorns tea spoon to tea - spoon
  18. Make ready 1 cup coconut milk Canned -
  19. Get Optional Tempering
  20. Take 1 - 2 tablespoons Coconut oil ghee butter / / -
  21. Prepare cashew nuts
  22. Prepare raisins

A medley of coconut milk and Indian spices, Meen Molee(or Molly or Moilee, the way you spell it) is a brilliant take on the coastal state's abundance of access to prized catches, namely seer fish and king fish! Just like Kadala Curry, Kerala style Chicken Stew or Ulli Theeyal, Fish Molee is also a Kerala favourite. Fish Molee is popularly named after a lady who modified the fiery hot Kerala style fish curry to a little milder version to suit the palate of the Britishers. This curry has become a family favorite now and for a person like me who never.

Instructions to make Meen Moilee/Molee - Kerala style fish stew with Salmon:
  1. Soak cashew nut in water for 15 minutes.
  2. Clean Salmon fillet and cut into big chunky pieces
  3. Heat oil in a wide mouthed pan and add cloves, cardamom and bay leaf and fry for a minute.
  4. Add curry leaves and onion and saute for 5-6 minutes. Sprinkle some water if needed in between.
  5. Add chopped garlic, and ginger and green chili and saute till the raw smell disappears.
  6. Add turmeric, coconut milk + water mix, salt to taste and combine well.
  7. Arrange fish and tomato pieces in a single layer an inch apart, cover and cook for 10 minutes.
  8. Uncover the pan, add garam masala and freshly crushed black pepper, mix in gently or shake the pan for the masala to get mixed in and cook covered for another 10 minutes or so.
  9. Grind the soaked cashew nut with a lil coconut milk to a fine paste. Mix it with remaining coconut milk
  10. Uncover the pan, add the coconut milk- cashew mix to the pan, let heat through for a minute and remove.
  11. Prepare the tempering and pour over the stew. Let it stand covered for at least 15 minutes before serving

Fish Molee is quite similar to Kerala Chicken Stew in its preparation. Both are mildly spiced and flavored with coconut milk, however they differ in the spices used. Here the fried fish pieces are simmered in a coconut milk gravy along with black pepper and tomatoes. The dish is best served with Appam or bread, but chapathis, rotis & rice also. For more fish recipes, check out chilli fish recipe, Kerala fish fry, Kerala red fish curry, meen peera.

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