Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mathi pollichathu (sardines cooked in banana leaf). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mix well and cook until the gravy turns thick. Switch off the stove and allow it to cool a bit. To make the banana leaf pliable,hold the it over the flame for few seconds.
Mathi Pollichathu (Sardines cooked in Banana leaf) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Mathi Pollichathu (Sardines cooked in Banana leaf) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mathi pollichathu (sardines cooked in banana leaf) using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mathi Pollichathu (Sardines cooked in Banana leaf):
- Get 500 gm sardines cleaned
- Take 6-7 birds eye chilli
- Get 3 small shallots, sliced
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- Make ready 2 sprig curry leaves
- Get 1.5 cup coconut milk (diluted)
- Prepare 1 cup thick coconut milk
- Take to taste Salt
- Get As needed Banana leaves
You can tie the parcel with "vazhanaru" (fibre obtaining from stem of banana plant). It was not available for me. Heat a non stick thawa and place the parcels on it Saute to cook. Hold the banana leaf over fire to make it pliable.
Steps to make Mathi Pollichathu (Sardines cooked in Banana leaf):
- Wash and clean the banana leaf and thaw it directly on the heat. Heating the leaf makes it flexible to fold. Place and layer the leaf inside the earthen cooking vessel.
- Clean the fish and apply turmeric, coriander, chilli, salt and gently massage it for the flavours to get it. Add the shallot, green chilli and curry leaves. Check for seasoning and adjust accordingly.
- Place the marinated fish on top of the banana leaf and pour the diluted coconut milk. Place the vessel on low heat and allow it to cook for 10 to 15 minutes until the coconut milk evaporates. Then pour the thick milk over it, cook for a minutes and switch off the flame.
- Delicious Fish in typical kerala style is ready to be served with steamed rice.
Add little of the cooked masala on to the leaf and spread. You can keep two or three in one leaf. Spread another spoonful of masala onto the fishes. Wrap the leaf to form a parcel. Make such parcels with remaining leaves, fishes and masala.
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