Nellikkayitta Mathi Curry/Nellikkayittu Vatticha Mathi (Sardine Curry Using Dried Gooseberry)

Ingredients:-

Sardine (Mathi)- ½ kg

Gooseberry Powder– 4 tsp (you have dried gooseberry, just soak in hot water for 20– 30 minutes and grind into smooth paste)

Pepper powder – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Tomato,chopped – 2 nos,medium

Green chilli – 2-3 nos,

Garlic cloves – 8-10 pods

Ginger – ½ inch piece

Curry leaves – 1 strand

Cumin seed – ½ tsp

Fenugreek seed – ½ tsp

Salt

Oil

Directions:-

·         Wash and cut mathi/sardine, and drain the water well and keep it aside

·         Take a non-stick pot(better to use clay pot, but I don’t have clay pot).

·         Make a smooth paste of ginger and garlic.

·         Add all powders, ginger garlic paste, chopped tomatoes, slitted green chilli and salt into the pot and add 1/2 cup of water.

·         Allow this mixture to boil and become thick consistency,  add the washed mathi/sardine

·         Cook till sardine cooked well and become thick gravy mixture.

·         Take a pan and add cumin seed and fenugreek seed and roast for 2-3 minutes and make a powder.

·         Finally add this powder, curry leaves and some oil on the top of cooked sardine/mathi.

·         Take off from stove and have with rice….

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