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Barracuda Fish Curry
🍗 Non-veg🌾 Gluten-free📊 Medium
Traditional 78. Barracuda Fish Curry recipe
⏱️10 minPrep
🔥24 minCook
🕒34 minTotal
🍽️4Serves
🧺 Ingredients
👩🍳 How to make Barracuda Fish Curry
- Season barracuda (5 mins): Rub thick steaks with 1/2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste, 1/2 tsp turmeric, and salt. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Brown onions (4 mins, medium-high heat): Heat coconut oil, add sliced onions. Fry for 3-4 minutes until golden brown.
- Build spice base (3 mins, medium heat): Add remaining ginger-garlic paste and cook for 1 minute. Add Kashmiri chili powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder. Stir for 2 minutes; oil separates.
- Add tomatoes (3 mins, medium heat): Add chopped tomatoes, cover and cook for 2-3 minutes until broken down.
- Add kudampuli (1 min, medium heat): Pour kudampuli water and simmer for 1 minute.
- Add thin coconut milk (1 min, medium heat): Pour thin coconut milk, bring to gentle simmer.
- Finish (2 mins, low heat): Pour thick coconut milk slowly, stirring gently. Simmer for final 2 minutes. Gravy should be creamy and coat fish evenly.
📖 Cultural notes
Barracuda Curry honors Kerala's open-sea fishing traditions, where strong, meaty fish stands up to bold tamarind sourness and requires patient, longer cooking for tenderness. ---
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