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We love to serve a fish curry alongside other Indian dishes to serve a crowd. Try this with some chicken tikka, mint & yoghurt chutney, cinnamon lamb curry, steamed basmati rice & some naan bread from the takeaway. Also great on its own with rice of course.

Coconut Fish Curry (Fish moilee) – serves 4

• 5 cm piece of ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
• 4 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
• 1 green chilli, roughly chopped (deseed if you don’t want too much heat)
• salt
• 3 tbsp coconut oil/rapeseed oil
• 20 fresh curry leaves (optional but handy to buy fresh, then keep in the freezer for dishes like this)
• 2 medium onions, thinly sliced
• 2 big ripe tomatoes, quartered
• ¾ tsp ground turmeric
• ½ tsp chilli powder
• 300ml coconut milk
• 4 white fish fillets e.g. hake, haddock or cod (we use hake as it’s cheaper)
• 1 lime, quartered

Put the ginger, garlic,  green chilli and a pinch of salt in a pestle & mortar and bash until you have a paste.

Put the oil into a wide, shallow pan over a medium heat. When the pan is hot, add the curry leaves, followed by the onions and cook for 8-10 minutes or until pale gold. Add the ginger, garlic & chilli paste and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Add the tomatoes, 1½ tsp salt, the turmeric & chilli powder. Cover the pan and cook for a couple of minutes.

Meanwhile, dilute the coconut milk with 100ml of water and add to the pan. When the milk begins to bubble, add the fish, then turn the heat down, cover and cook for 5-7 minutes or until the fish is cooked through.

Serve with a squeeze of lime and rice on the side.

(Original recipe from Made in India by Meera Sodha, Penguin, 2014.)