Green Coriander & Yoghurt Fish

Dhania Machli

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Nutmeg Trail

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2022

  • About

Yoghurt is one of the world’s most ancient foods. Its health benefits were noted in Indian Ayurvedic scripts dating from 6000 BC; the ancient Greeks pinned its use to ‘barbarous nations’; and the mellifluous ‘land of milk and honey’ in the Bible is thought to be a reference to yoghurt.

Its use in cooking diffused across Central Asia and northern India, acting as both a tenderiser and tangy flavour enhancer. (Move further south in Asia and coconut milk trumps dairy.) It is embraced i