Sinfully easy and totally addictive! Fish Molee -Meen Moliee-Molly is a famous fish curry from Kerala (South India). The word molee literally means stew.
Fish Molee -Molly is a preparation where fish is stewed in coconut milk and very low spiced flavor in masala is prepared, so that flavor of the fish dominates the taste of the curry. This fish-meen molly marks the foreign influence especially of the Portugues on the cuisine of Kerala.
The fish used for this curry can range anything from Kingfish to Pomfrets to any fish that is fleshy. It is a mild, delicate dish best served with Appam / Idiyappam /Rice, etc. If you like Fish curry, you’re going to love this Curry..here u go!
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Fish Molee - Meen Moliee Recipe -Kerala Style Fish Stew
Ingredients
- For Marination :
- King fish /Pomferts or any firm fleshed fish : 1 lbs or 2 medium sized
- Turmeric Powder : 1 tsp
- Lemon juice : 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- For Gravy :
- Onion : 1 large thinly, sliced
- Tomato : 1 medium sliced
- Ginger : 1 inch piece crushed
- Garlic : 2 cloves crushed
- Black Pepper Powder : 1 tsp
- Thick Coconut milk -1st extract /Onnampaal : 1/2 cup
- Semi Thick Coconut milk - 2nd extract /Randampaal : 1/2 cups
- Thin Coconut Milk - 3rd extract /Moonampaal : 1 cup
- Mustard Seeds : 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves : 2 sprig
- Green chillies : 2-3 nos slit
- Lemon juice /Vinegar : 1 tbsp
- Coconut Oil : 2 tbsp
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash and clean the fish and pat dry it.
- Marinade the fish with marinade ingredients listed above and set aside for 15-20 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pan and slightly fry marinated fish pieces on a medium heat and keep it aside.
- Heat a pan (preferably in 'Kalchatti' an earthen pot) and pour required coconut oil. (Note : It will enhance the authentic taste)
- Splutter the mustard seeds; add the ginger, garlic and saute for a minute.
- Add the sliced onion, curry leaves, green chillies and saute till it becomes soft and translucent.
- Add the tomatoes and saut'e for a minute. (Note : Do not mash the tomatoes).
- Add the pepper powder and simmer the heat.
- Add thin coconut milk/moonampaal and salt and mix well.
- Add the fried fish pieces carefully, cover and cook the fish. As the fish is half done while frying you just need to cook for another couple of minutes.
- Now pour the 2nd extract - semi thick coconut milk / randampaal and hold onto the sides of the pan and swirl it until the fish is well totally immersed in the gravy. Let it cook slowly for sometime till the fish completly absorbs it.
- Remove the pot from the fire, pour the 1st extract- thick coconut milk/onnampaal; place it on low fire again for a minute and gently shake so that it gets mixed . (Note : Don't stir after the fish is cooked, as the fish might break.
- Remove the pot from the fire and add some lime juice or vinegar. Top with some coconut oil in the end. Enjoy and Serve!
Notes
Using coconut oil enhance the authentic taste and flavor.
Hope you will try and enjoy this classic Fish Moliee -Kerala Fish Moli-Stew with Kerala Appam as much as we do.! Don’t forget to share your feedback if you try.
Happy Cooking!
Sangeetha
I’m so glad you it turned out well for you. I’ll have to try it with carrot sometime, thanks for trying sharing your feedback.
Cheers!
Sangeetha
You're welcome Honey! Thank you for trying it out, and letting me know. I'm so glad that that it lived up to your expectations. Pls do try other recipes if time permits and hope you like them too.
Cheers!
Sangeetha
Awesome.i made the same with carrots.matches v well with chappatis.
I just made this. I used small onions instead of big ones and added cumin and fenugreek along with mustard seeds. It tastes divine. Thanks for this recipe, it's a keeper! 🙂
Hi Puneet, Pepper powder mentioned in this recipes refer to Black Pepper Powder. I hope this answers your question.
What is pepper powder
Hii RazmaTaz, Your very welcome! I’m so glad to hear you, your kids enjoyed :-). That’s one thing I love about this dish, it’s flavors are simple enough for kids yet delicious enough for adults. I hope you do try more recipes from here.Thanks for letting me know it!My special regards to your kids.
Cheers!
Sangeetha
Yumm.. thank you so much for sharing this.. my kids dont like fish, but this they ate it all 🙂 used boneless white fillet fish, next time will try with King Fish.. xx
Hi Lizebth,:-) I inherited my passion of cooking from my mom. I was always been blessed with gifted cooks around me. It took several years for me to learn cooking…It comes naturally and it is truly a passion and i love what i do.:):)
Cheers!
Sangeetha
I really wanna know how U make such tasty dishes. ….lizbeth
Hello Mary Zach, You are welcome! So good to know that it came out well for you. Thanks a bunch for the comment dear 🙂
Cheers!
Sangeetha
Made this for dinner last evening. Turned out delicious even sans the creamy onnam pal. I used a can of coconut milk and thinned out some and added the rest at the end. Thank you for posting this. May our kothi never end.
@ Geeta, Good luck! Let me know how it turned out :-)Thanks so much for appreciating my efforts,it really means a lot.
very tempting…. planning to try it out today itself and will let you know the outcome….your site is really wonderful… keep going.. Regards – Geeta
Thanks everyone:D Really appreciate your time!!
looking tempting
pl collect the award
Perfect with Appams… looks droolworthy!
delicious fish molee…love to have it with appam!
engine kanichu kothipikkale..looks so yummy
kandittu kothi sahikkunnilla..yum
Ho i'm drooling
ho..ente control pokunnu..yummyyyyy!!!
athey r u still in FL?
HAvent had this delectable fish stew since long, just craving and u r making me hungry with ur clicks..
Ayyo enikithu kandittu kothy varunne…Yummy yumm aytund tto
looks delish dear…love it!…
wow i feel like eating this now,..
i am thinking to do this for a long time….. after seeing your beautiful clicks, my mouth started watering and definitely going to make by this week…..
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Akila
DROOLLLLLLLLLLLLL I want the fish curry.
delicious fisk curry
I love it… i want to have this right now:)
adipoli kandittu kothi akunu
enikkum kothiyavunu
yummy stew, love its colour..
Dear Sangeetha
Your recipe comes just in time.My wife and daughter have gone crazy after eating lot of Meen Molee during our visit to Kerala. Now I have to make it.
I have all the ingredients, only I dont want to use off the self coconut milk, they are useless. ( The Thai coconut milk is good but not sold in India). So let me see if I can threat (!!!) my wife to make the coconut milk or she doesnt get the fish Molee. ( she doesnt have the recipe)
Have a nice week.
Slurp! The stew's very yummy and droolworthy!
Even though I don't eat fish..just came in to see ur awesome clicks.. Asusual awesome captures …keep rocking.
Adipoli meen curry. veggie aya enniku kothivarunnu.
looks delicious and healthy curry 🙂
this is one fish preparation i absolutely love..the pic is just so awesomly tempting.
that looks so flavourful with coconut, yum yum