Goan Fish Curry

Name: Goan Fish Curry
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Goan
Ingredients: 1 tbsp soft brown sugar; juice of ½ lemon; 200 g/7 oz canned chopped tomatoes; ½ tsp ground turmeric; 650 g/1 lb 7 oz skinned cod or haddock fillets, cut into large chunks; 4 garlic cloves, grated; 1 small bunch of fresh coriander/cilantro, leaves and stalks roughly chopped; 5 cm/2 inch piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and grated; 2 white onions, cut in half and thinly sliced lengthways; 1 dried red chilli; 2 tsp mustard seeds; 1 tsp nigella seeds; 80 ml/2½ fl oz/⅓ cup vegetable oil; 1 tbsp back treacle/molasses; ¼ tsp chilli powder

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

Goan curries are typically hot and tangy and I love how uncompromising their sauces can be. I start this dish off with a fried Kashmiri dried chilli to give it a smoked heat, then ginger and black treacle/molasses pack the rest of the sweet, zingy punch.