Coorg Pork Curry/ Pandi Curry

Ingredients:

1 Kg Pork (2 Lbs)
1 tbs Chilly power
1tsp Turmeric power
1tsp Cummin Seeds (Jeera)
8-10 Small Onions or 2 big onions
10-15 cloves of Garlic
3-4 Green Chills
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
2 tbs Cummin Power
Vinegar or concentrated tamarind juice (or Kachampuli if you can get it)
Salt to taste

Method:

Wash the Pork couple of times, remove excess water. Marinate the pork for 10-15 minutes with salt, red chilly power, and turmeric. In the mean while blend the Onions, Green Chilles,Ginger and a little Cummin seeds. Now fry the Cummin Power until it turns almost black (but be careful not to burn it), add the mustard and the rest of the cummin seeds and fry for few minutes more.Now put the pork which was kept for marination in a pan and let it cook till the excess water is drained. Now add the mixture of Onions, Green Chills, ginger and Cummin seed and let it cook (stir as often as possible to avoid burning). After the pork is cooked, add the fried cummin power and cook for 5 minutes on low flame. Add the Vinegar and we are ready to go.

Mangalore fish pulimunchi / Masala Fish/ Pulimunchi Masala

This was a trial recipe inspired by a dish I once had at a Mangalore restaurant ... it turned out real good .
Fish - Pomfret, Clean and make slits on it and marinate in a mixture of chilly,turmeric,pepper powder , salt and vinegar.
Shallow fry the fish .
For the masala - shallots,ginger,garlic,tomato,puli and green onion for garnish.

Method:
Heat oil and add the shallots,ginger,garlic and saute well then add in chilly powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder and saute until raw smell is gone.
Add tomatoes and saute until oil separates.
Add tamarind to adjust sourness, if the tomato is sour you might not even need the puli.
Add the fried fish into this masala and add 1/2 cup water and let it simmer until the water is absorbed and the fish is coated with masala.
Garnish with spring onion and squeeze some lime juice on it.

My vava who is my greatest critics gave me a five star for this one ....