Curries are the most important dish in Maldivian meals, no meal
is complete without a curry whether super-hot, mild or sweet. I often get asked
how to cook mussamaa curry from some of my readers, so I thought I would write
it down and add it to my blog. This is a great recipe to eat with roshi or rice.
2 big tuna loins
To make mussamaa curry paste:
30 grams Fish curry powder
30 grams roasted curry powder
Medium onion chopped
½ tsp whole pepper
3 cloves garlic (chopped)
½ of a Maldivian chilly (githeyomirus)
1 spring curry leaves
4 cardamom
1 cinnamon stick about 2 inch
3tbs grated coconut
1/3tsp salt
1cup water
For the curry:-
2big onions sliced
12 curry leaves
2 pandan leaf (raanbaa fai)
Maldivian chilly
3cloves garlic
½ tsp ginger
1/3 cup sea almonds or kanamadu
½ pkt dried resins
4 cardamom pods
2 stick cinnamon
Vegetable oil
1 cup thin coconut milk
1/2cup thick coconut milk
1tbs sugar
Method:-
Assembling tuna rolls…
Process all curry paste ingredients in a food processor
and take half of the paste, keep rest for later. Cut each tuna loin in to 5
portions and cut each portion in to 2inch wide to 3inch long thin strips or
slices.
Take one piece of tuna and apply generous amount of curry paste on the
inside of cut piece and roll the tuna piece like a swiss roll locking as much
curry paste inside and tie the rolled tuna piece using a pandan strip or secure
with a tooth pick.
Finish all the tuna pieces like this and leave in fridge to
marinate for 3 hours or overnight.
To cook curry ..
Heat oil in a pan fry the sea almonds first just until
slightly brown take out on to a plate, then fry resins until resins are puffed
take on to the same plate, set aside. In the same pan add the onions, curry
leaves, chilly, ginger, garlic cinnamon, cardamom and pandan leaves, fry until
onions caramelizes. Into this add the thin coconut milk, rest of the curry
paste and stir to dissolve.
Start to cook, add the marinated tuna, cook until tuna
is cooked and the curry is thick add the thick coconut milk sprinkle 1tbs sugar
cook for 2 minutes, sprinkle the sea almonds and resins, season with salt…. Enjoy!
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