Fish Curry /Meen Curry

Ingredients

1.Fish - 1/2 kg
2.Ginger - 1 cup (Thinly sliced)
3.Garlic - 1 cup (Thinly sliced )(please see the below  picture)
4.Small Onion -1 cup (Thinly sliced)
5.Onion -1 cup (Thinly sliced)
6.Fenugreek(uluva) -1 tsp
7.Kashmiri Chilli powder - 2tsp
8.Chilly powder-3 tsp
9.Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
10.Coriander powder -11/2 tsp
11.Fish masala -2 tsp (optional)
12.Kudam puli -3 nos
13.Oil-4 tsp

Preparation
Usually manchatti is used to prepare fish curry.
1.Clean and cut the fish in to medium sized pieces.For some kind of fish (eg:sravu/shark)you may need to peel off the skin.
2.Soak the kudampuli in 1/2 cup water

3.Heat oil in a vessel/manchatti
4.Splutter 1tsp fenugreek seeds

5.Add ginger,garlic,small onions and saute well for 4 minutes.
6.Add thinly sliced onions and stir till the oil separates from it .
7.Mix 3tsp chilly powder ,2 tsp kashmiri chilly powder and 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and fish masala with a little water
Add the masala to the sauteed onion and stir till the oil seperate from the masala.
8.Now add the soaked kudampuli and water.
9.Bring the gravy to boil and then simmer.
10.Add enough salt.
11.Gently add the fish and curry leaves to this gravy.The fish should immerse in the gravy.
12.Cook till the fish is done and the gravy become thick
13.Keep this fish curry aside for 10-12 hrs before using it.