Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, spanish mackerel curry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Spanish Mackerel Curry is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Spanish Mackerel Curry is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Pound the garlic, shallots and red chilli in a mortar and pestle until fine. Heat oil in pot and fry the pounded ingredients and curry leaves until fragrant. Then add the fish and fry together.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook spanish mackerel curry using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Spanish Mackerel Curry:
- Make ready A. Ingredients
- Take 5 slices Spanish Mackerel - fried
- Prepare (Rub Turmeric powder + salt on fish slices before frying)
- Get 5 ladies fingers / okra
- Get 1 egg plant - thickly sliced
- Prepare B. Spices
- Take 1/3 C cooking oil
- Prepare 1 tsp mixed Indian spices (see Note)
- Take C. Blend into a very fine paste
- Prepare 1 medium or big brown onion
- Make ready 2 shallots
- Get 2 garlic
- Prepare 1/2 C soaked & softened dried chillies
- Get D. Make into a paste
- Make ready 1/2 C Baba’s Fish Curry Powder
- Take 1 tbsp Baba’s Meat Curry Powder
- Prepare E. Seasonings
- Prepare to taste Chicken seasoning powder
- Prepare Note
- Prepare 1 . Mixed Indian Spices or Panch Phoran can be bought ready mixed from the store
- Get 2 . Panch Phoran can also be prepared at home by mixing equal portion of fennel seed, cumin, fenugreek, mustard seed, nigella seed. Use a teaspoon full in this fish curry
This particular recipe, pulled from the pages of Slow Burning Passion, provides a robust presentation of Spanish Mackerel. A pinch of Saffron and perhaps a little more of the Jalapenos work well to move this already wonderful recipe. The lemon and the paprika work very well with Spanish Mackerel. My only problem was that I could not get the fish to cook completely under the lemon.
Steps to make Spanish Mackerel Curry:
- A - Rub a teaspoon of turmeric powder and salt (or use chicken seasoning powder) on spanish mackerel slices. Fry fish slices until cooked through. Clean okra or ladies fingers’ stem (the very end of okras stem) and place okra on a hot wok. Cook at very high heat, without oil, for few minutes or until just wilted. This is to reduce the sliminess of the cut okra. Next, slice the eggplant.
- B - Use store-bought, pre-mixed indian spices or prepare at home by mixing equal portion of fennel seed, cumin, fenugreek, mustard seed and nigella seed. Use a teaspoon full of this mixed spices in this curry. Alternatively, just use a pinch of each spice.
- C - Place ingredients in C with 1/4 C - 1/3 C of water in a blender and blend into a very fine paste.
- D - Combine D in a bowl. Add enough water to make a soft curry paste, not too thick or too thin.
- Cooking the curry - Over medium heat, heat cooking oil in a big wok. Add B (mixed spices) and stir for few seconds.
- Add in C (blended ingredients) and cook until aromatic and translucent.
- Next, add D (curry paste) and continue cooking and stirring for 4-5 minutes or until oil is separated from the curry mixture.
- Pour 1 1/2 cups (to 2 cups) of water. Stir to mix and add sliced egg plant. Cover and bring to a boil and eggplant is tender. Season with enough chicken seasoning powder. Taste and adjust seasoning accordingly. Add okra and fish. Bring curry to a boil again and turn the heat off right after that. Dish up. Serve with rice, dipping bread or roti.
Spanish Mackerel Recipe, the Mediterranean Way. Mom, a very practical cook, didn't fuss much with whole fish. If it came home in one piece, it often took on a little seasoning and a generous drizzle of olive oil. Spanish are wonderful on the table, better tasting than their more famous and larger cousins the king mackerel. Spanish mackerel run in the summer and fall in the Carolinas and are caught off the Jolly Rodger pier in Topsail Island by anglers.
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