Seared Fish in Tamarind + Fenugreek Sauce

This famous dish from the Persian Gulf is one of my all-time favorite ways to cook fish. A young man from Bandar Abbas showed me how his mother made it. The Persian Gulf is known for many things—good and bad, but several varieties of fish and shrimp in that gulf are exceptionally good—Jean Chardin, the jeweler and keen observer also mentions this in the seventeenth century. You can replace the fish with shrimp and follow the recipe exactly as below, except in step 5 sear th