Sardine tins...I stock them up and whenever I feel having sardines or my husband wants to eat sardine curry......there it is...easy to cook...I love to add boiled eggs in my sardine curry..the trick is cut slightly the boiled eggs...so the eggs are soaked in the curry..eat it after few hours of cooking...the eggs will taste so delicious...
Ingredients
2 big red onions
10-12 cloves of garlic
5cm ginger
all the above ingredients cut and diced
Fish curry powder - 3 tablespoon if you would like your curry to be spicy add 2 tablespoons of chilli powder( mix it with 3-4 tablespoons of water... it must be like a paste)
3-4 tablespoons of cooking oil..
Golf-ball sized lump of tamarind (soak in 1 cups water)Squeeze the soaked tamarind well to release all the pulp from it. Strain to get thick tamarind juice and discard the pith and seeds
Salt to taste
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
8-10 curry leaves
2 green chillies
2 large tomato chopped
3 potatoes -cut into 5cm long (slightly thicker than wedges)
1 brinjal - cut into 5cm long
1 radish -optional
1 unripe mango -optional
2-3 drumsticks(murungkai)-optional
1 can of sardine tin
Boiled eggs depends on how many you would like
Preparation:
Heat the cooking oil in a deep pan, on a medium flame till hot. Add the curry leaves, fenugreek seeds, green chillies. Fry till spluttering stops.
Now add the onion,garlic and ginger. Fry till the onion begins to brown very slightly.
Add the curry powder paste
Fry till the curry powder starts to release its oil and turn darker. Stir frequently while frying.
Add water... -2 bowls ( depending how much curry you want) But not too watery/ Add salt... Boil around 20 minutes..otherwise there will be curry powder smell... add the potatoes,brinjal and any other vegetables..white radish.
Add the chopped tomato. Add the tamarind juice and salt totaste
Simmer and cook till oil begins to appear on top of the gravy. Add the pieces of sardine together with the paste now and cook till done. If stirring, do so very gently to avoid breaking the pieces of fish. (boil around 5-10 minutes once the fish is in). Immediately turn off the heat.
Add in the boiled eggs.
Happy cooking....
