Meen pollichathu

Ingredients:
           Salmon fish - 2 pieces
           Onion - 1/2 chopped
           Tomato - 1/2 chopped
           Ginger - 1 inch (crushed)
           Garlic - 3 cloves (crushed)
           Green chilies - 2 chopped
           Curry leaves - 2 springs
           Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
           Chilly powder - 1 tsp
           Coriander powder - 1 tsp
           Kodam puli - 4 pieces
           Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
           Fenugreek seed - 1/2 tsp (powdered)
           Aluminum paper or banana leaf
           Salt
           Oil
Method:
           Clean the fish. Marinate the fish with turmeric powder, chilly powder and salt. After 15 minutes, fry the fish and keep this separate. Soak the kodam puli into water and take the juice. In a pan add oil, put mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds splutter add onion, tomato, green chilies, crushed garlic and ginger. Cook till it comes like puree, add chilly powder and coriander powder. Saute well. Add the kodam puli juice, fenugreek powder and salt. Let it cook till it comes like gravy. Now take the aluminum foil paper or banana leaf, put the fish in the center of the paper and pour one big ladle of the gravy. Close the fish  and bake this with oven about 400 degree F for 15 minutes. Meen pollichathu is ready. We can use the whole fish also with slits in the body.
                                               




                                         
                                       
                                       






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