Sura Puttu / Shark Curry

Our family's favourite dish "Sura Puttu"  - Sura means Shark and this dish is the most delicious of all non-vegetarian dishes. This is the reason i've started our blog with this dish.

Serves : 4 - 6

Ingredients:

Shark - 4 big pieces (we used 1/2 kg Shark steaks)
Onions (big) - 3 / Onion (medium) - 6(finely chopped)
Garlic pods - 12 (finely chopped)
Ginger - 1 inch (finely chopped)
Grated Coconut -  5 tablespoons
Red Chilli powder -  4 teaspoon (or according to taste)
Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Fennel Seeds - 11/2 tablespoons
Curry leaves - 1 strand
Oil - as required
Coriander leaves - as required
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Blanch the shark steaks in boiled water for 15 minutes (or till it is easier to skin the shark)
2. Discard the bones and make small pieces of the flesh with your hands (take care while doing this as it might be hot)
3. Heat a pan/kadai with oil to medium high.Saute onions, garlic, ginger and curry leaves together till the onions are slightly brown
4. Grind coconut and fennel seeds together in blender - Do not add water while grinding
5.  Add the blended mix, Red chilli powder , turmeric powder and salt to the contents in the kadai.
6. Keep stirring the contents adding some more oil to get the reddish brown colour of the dish.
7. Taste the dish and garnish with coriander leaves.

Notes:
Onions give more taste to this dish. Do not reduce the number of onions instead you can add more.