Seafood Moily

Seafood Moily

Ingredients

500 gm sea food (pearl spot, pomfret, prawns)
2 medium sized onions, chopped
2 medium sized tomatoes, chopped
12 cloves garlic, chopped
1 cm piece ginger julienned
4 green chillies, slit and seeded 2 stalk curry leaves
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp salt
2 tsp lime juice
1 1/4 cups coconut milk

Tempering

1 tsp mustard seeds
2 tsp oil

Method

1 Clean fish(if used) cut into 5 cm pieces , wash and drain. Shell prawns (if used), remove head and e vein and wash and drain.

2. Arrange onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger , green chillies and curry leaves, in the order given, in layers in a pan. Arrange seafood on top. Sprinkle with turmeric, salt and lime juice , and pour in 3/4 cup water.

3. Cover pan, place over moderate heat and bring to boil, Lower heat and simmer for 2 minutes longer and remove from heat.

4. Heat oil for tempering in a small pan and sprinkle in mustard seeds. When they start sputtering, pour contents of pan into moily and mix gently.

5. Serve with appam, idiappam or pathiri.