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This recipe is from Malayalam Tv show. Tried and tested! 🙂
Mathi (sardine) is good for Heart, Bone strength and rich in protein, Suggested for all.

Me the Cook!

Ingredients needed:
Sardine (Mathi) cleaned :1/2 kg
Shallots chopped : 1 cup
red chilli grounded: 2 tsp
Ginger chopped : 1 tsp
Garlic chopped: 1 tsp
Green chilli slit : 3 nos
turmeric powder
salt
coconut oil
tomatoes 2 nos chopped
curry leaves
mustard seeds
Mango (unripe) (Pacha manga) cut into cubes: 7-8 cubes
Fish Tamrind (kodampuli): as per taste

Step 1: Wash and clean the sardines

Step 2: Get the Shallots cleaned and chopped finely

Step 3: Get the Garlic and Ginger chopped finely

Step 4: Crush the red chillies

Step 5: Clean and cut unripe mango into slices

Step 6: Heat the oil in Kadai (Mud pot preferably) and splutter fenugreek (vendhayam) seeds. Once it splutters add, shallots, ginger & garlic prepared in step 3

Step 7: once shallots turn pink, add chopped tomatoes and green chilli

Step 8: Add salt( including salt required for fish), turmeric powder and Saute well until it becomes mushy as shown in pic

Step 9: Add Mango cubes to it and mix well

Step 10: Add water so that mango gets cooked. Cook the entire dish only in medium flame. Close the pot and cook. Once Mango is half cooked, go to step 11

Step 11: Add the fish tamarind to the dish. Keep in mind that ur using mango and tomatoes. So add the tamarind only as required.

Step 12: Let it boil until tamarind mixes well and the oil oozes out as shown in the pic

Step 13: As the final step add the fish, curry leaves and little coconut oil if required and cook for 10-15 min until fish is cooked.
Close it and cook.