Tamil Nadu

Sura puttu

Name: Sura puttu
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tamil
Ingredients: 500 g small paal sura cut into pieces shark (sura); 3 cups for boiling water; 1/4 tsp turmeric (ground turmeric); 1 tsp salt; 3 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; 1/2 tsp fennel seeds; 2 sprigs curry leaves; 15 finely chopped shallots; 15 cloves finely chopped garlic; 1 inch finely chopped ginger; 3 finely chopped green chilli; 1 tsp crushed black pepper; a handful chopped coriander leaves (cilantro)

Shark, boiled, crumbled and tossed with a mountain of garlic. Sounds wild, tastes like home.

40 minTime

28 gProtein each

mediumSpice

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

307kcal

28 gprotein

2 gfibre

40minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Shark (sura)500 g small paal sura, cut into pieces

Water3 cups, for boiling

Turmeric (ground turmeric)¼ tsp

Salt1 tsp

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)3 tbsp

Mustard seeds½ tsp

Fennel seeds½ tsp

Curry leaves2 sprigs

Shallots15, finely chopped

Garlic15 cloves, finely chopped

Ginger2.5 cm, finely chopped

Green chilli3, finely chopped

Black pepper1 tsp, crushed

Coriander leaves (cilantro)a handful, chopped

Method

4 steps

1Boil the water with half the turmeric and a pinch of salt, add the shark and cook until done.
2Drain, cool slightly, peel off the skin and remove the central cartilage. Crumble the flesh with your fingers and squeeze out the water.
3Heat the oil, splutter mustard and fennel, add curry leaves, then shallots, garlic, ginger and green chilli. Fry until the shallots are soft and golden.
4Add the crumbled fish with the rest of the turmeric and salt and toss on medium heat until dry and fluffy. Finish with pepper and coriander.

Serve it like this

Serve warm in a small heap with a few fried curry leaves on top, next to rice and rasam or a fish kuzhambu.

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