Fish Vazhayilayil Pollichathu n Palappam

This is a Recipe which I  have love n like....Alleppy and Kuttanad is famous for its fish Recipes.My dad is also from Kuttanad. My dad always says about  Meen Vzhayilayil Pollichathu his mother used to make  and that is one among the best thing he cherish about his mother as well as he miss too. And when ever my mother tries to do this he always says it cannot beat the Pollichathu which his mother used to make. I think my dad will have the same opinion even if he tastes mine. I hope my parents will be coming here next month. So as a trial I prepared this Recipe.One important note about this  recipe is "The fish should be very very Fresh" else it will spoil your entire recipe.


I hope all knows how to prepare Palappam. If not in some other post I will share the method.

Ingredients.

Step - 1

Fish- 1/2 kg ( I used white Pomfret)

Turmeric Powder - 1 Tspn

Pepper Powder- 1 Tspn

Salt

Vinegar.

Marinate the fish with above ingredients and keep aside for 1/2 hr. After that slightly fry fish with less oil..

Ingredients

Step -2

Shallots - 25 No's

Tomato  - 1 No

Ginger Garlic paste - 1 Tblspn

Turmeric - 1 Tspn

Coriander  - 1/2 Tspn

Red chilly Powder - 1 1/2 Tspn

Eastern Fish Masala - 11/2 Tspn

Tamarind Juice  - 3 Tspn

Fenugreek Powder - 1 1/2 Tspn

Coconut Milk - 1/2 Coconut

Oil

Curry Leaves

Plantain Leaves

Preparation

Add oil to pan the add ginger garlic paste , shallots, tomato, curry leaves once its half done add all the powders. Saute well and add the tamarind juice at end.

Take plantain leaves place it one flame so that it will be come soft. Place some portion of masala , then  keep the fried fish and then place the rest of masala on top of fish. Then add 1 or 2 table spoon of coconut milk and the some fresh curry leaves fold in a way which I have shown in the picture. Take a big pan. Add some oil place this pack in to the pan. And keep on low flame. Place a vessel containing water on top of the Packed Fish so it will be cooked nicely. Cook for fifteen minutes .In between turn both sides. Fish Vazhayilayil Pollichathu ready. Recipe is not that very easy. It need time and patience.

This is 4 U

Now a day’s I update my blog with Recipes which I tried.  Even though there is a Recipe in this post too, still it stays apart from all my other Recipe. Because this is a Cake which I baked with great Love & Passion. There is a saying like “For every successful man there is a woman behind” but in my case I have to say “For Every Happy Woman there will be a man behind”. Yes I am saying about my best half. There is no need of a show-off to say how much you love your husband.  Even though,I baked this as a gesture of love , gratitude towards him for being such a loving and supporting husband.

I can proudly say that whatever I missed before marriage right from the style of dressing till my passions, he only made that happen for me or opened/showed me the way to accomplish that. Thank you so much for being supportive and being so motivating, love is a default factor even though he may not express it in words as his expressions are through actions. It was a complete makeover for me from head to toe as well in my perspective towards life. He only taught me to do things which I like in my own way without much bothering how others may think. He only taught me to live my life to the fullest in the way I want it to be.

On your Birthday I wanna tell you.

You are the best thing that could have happened to me, giving me so much laughter, joy , support and so much love. So on your birthday, I would just like to say thank u, and remind you of how much I love you.

Many more Happy Returns of the Day Dipzzz 


Recipe

Ingredients

Pound Cake Mix - 300 gm

Butter - 50 gm

Water - 150 Ml

Eggs - 2 Nos


Preparation

Mix all the above ingredients in a blender .

Take a baking pan place one oil paper greased with butter in to it. Pour the mixture into it.

Preheat oven in 180 degree Celsius temp for min.

Then place the baking pan in to it and initially put the baking temperature for  40 minutes.By 25 minutes you stop the baking for a minute and spread the cashews on top and restart.

For some cakes that time will be enough but some time it may take up to 1hr depending up on change in the cake mix or the oven .
You can check whether the cake is completly baked with the help of a tooth pick. When toothpick is inserted at the center part
of the cake and no mixture is stick on the tooth pick it means cake is baked properly don't over bake too.

For Icing

Whipped Cream 

Caster Sugar/ Icing Sugar.

Cherries

Colour.

It purely depends on aesthetic sense. Just Blend all together and spread it over the cake evenly there are so many kitchen mates available in market to do the icing .For this part the cooking skill won't merely help you ,the artist in you also have to work :) And this is my fist Hands on experience on Decorating a Cake :)Even though there are flaws and not perfect ,still I am glad that I did it for the first time for the best person in my life!!!!!!