Fish Moilee

Fish Moilee or Fish Molee is a rich and creamy fish gravy where the fish is cooked in the divine coconut milk. The shallow fried fishes are further cooked in mild spicy thin coconut milk and a final touch of thick coconut milk which will make the gravy creamy and a pure bliss for the taste buds.

My testers (mainly my mom, brother, husband, cousins and even my little one😍, this time it was mom and brother) were very much pleased with this gravy i made for dinner. We had it with Chapathi and it goes well with vellappam as well. I had mad this same recipe a number of times with different kind of cut piece fishes and every time it comes out perfect and a pleasing dish. Here i used Pomphret

Fish Moilee

Preparation Time : 25 minutes

Cooking : 20 minutes

Ingredients:-

For marinating fish:-

Fish - 500g 

Chilli Powder - 1 tsp tsp

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Pepper Powder - 1/4 tsp

Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Salt

For Gravy:-

Cloves - 4

Cinnamon - 2 inch sticks

Onion - 1 medium

Ginger - 1 inch piece (crushed)

Garlic - 3 (crushed)

Green Chilies - 2

Tomato - 1 medium

Curry leaves

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp

Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp

Flour - 1/2 tsp

Thin Coconut Milk - 1 1/2 cup

Thick Coconut Milk - 1 cup

Salt

Oil.

Method:-

1. Marinate the fish with ingredients for marinating and keep aside for 15 to 20 minutes.

2. In a pan, add 3 tbsp of oil and shallow fry the fish on both sides and keep aside.

3. In the same pan, add one or two tbsp oil if needed, once hot, add cloves and cinnamon. When they starts to splutter, add curry leaves and then add onion. Saute well till golden.

4. Add ginger, garlic and green chilies. saute for a while.

5. Add tomatoes, curry leaves and salt. Let tomatoes cook well and mashed up.

6. Add all spice powders, flour and saute well till raw smell disappears.

7. Add thin coconut milk. Let it boil for 5 minutes. 

8. Add shallow fried fish and cover and cook for another 5 minutes.

9. Add thick coconut milk, adjust salt and pepper. Close and cook again for another 2 minutes.

10.Garnish with sliced tomatoes and curry leaves.

After shallow frying the fish

After adding thin coconut milk and then the fish

After adding thick coconut milk

Notes:-

1. The coconut milk can be from freshly grounded coconut or by mixing the coconut milk powder or the canned coconut milk.

2. I used coconut milk powder, for thin coconut milk, i used 11/2 to 2 tbsp coconut milk powder in 11/2 cup of water and for thick coconut milk, 3 tbsp of coconut milk in 1 cup of water.