This hot and spicy baked lobster preparation is a change from the usual Garlic Butter Herb Lobster, or Lobster Thermidor. This is yet another recipe, where the traditional Mangalorean Chilli paste/ Meet Mirsang paste comes to use. A thin smearing of the Meet Mirsang/ Chilli paste over the cut surface of the lobster followed by a a generous […]
Here is another Mangalore style Hot and Sour red fish curry that is flavourful and mind blowing tasty, involves no grinding of spices and is free from coconut. The speciality of this recipe is the use of dried kokam pieces as a souring agent for the curry in place of tamarind. Kokam is the sun dried outer covering […]
This a very simple recipe for a stylish and flavour packed fish preparation. On this plate you will see fish prepared in 2 styles. The left side/red coloured fish is the Mangalore Meet Mirsang style of fish fry using the Meet Mirsang/ chilli paste, which I have posted before. On the right side is the Mangalore Style Green […]
This is a very simple and tasty sardine curry. I learned to make it from my mom. Here the spices for the masala/ spice paste requires no roasting or frying. Ingredients: Sardines: 30 For Grinding: Kashmiri Dried red chillies: 12-15 nos Pepper corns: 8 nos Coriander seeds: 2 tablespoons Mustard seeds: 1tsp Whole cumin: 1 […]
This is one of Mangalore’s most loved dishes….served in almost all Mangalorean restaurants and joints, first created in the kitchens of a well known eatery in Kundapur, Udupi of Dakshina Karnataka. It is a sought after delicacy, prepared using pure ghee or clarified butter and a wonderful blend of ground simple spices. The ghee roast […]
This is one of my favourite Seafood. I remember as a child when I accompanied mom to the fish market in her home town, eating squid was unheard of… it was either thrown away, given for free or taken for cat food. Journeying to the present….it is a delicacy in most fish loving countries…hmmmm The piquant […]
This is another classic Mangalorean dish loved by all. Made along with a simple blend of spices and grated coconut this dish is finger licking good or must I say cockle licking good ;)~ Cockles/Clams or Khubbe in Konkani are a popular type of edible shellfish in Mangalore. They are available in 3 varieties ie. […]
One of the tastiest way to have fish is by shallowing frying it with the Mangalorean Meet Mirsang paste. Ingredients: Fish: 2, any fish ( here Ive used Shathka) Meet Mirsang paste Oil to fry. To make simple Meet Mirsang/ Chilli paste: Kashmiri or Bedagi Chilli powder- 2 tsps Cumin Powder- 1tsp Tumeric powder- 1/4 tsp […]
Roes and caviares are perhaps the richest delicacies of sea food. The soft herring roe/ milts is the produce of the male fish . The milt/ roe is deliciously creamy and tasty. I marinated these soft herring roes in meet mirsang/ mangalorean chilli paste. Ingredients: Serves 2 Soft Herring Roes- 250 gms For Meet Mirsang/ Chilli paste: Kashmiri Chilli […]
This is another tasty traditional Mangalorean fish curry which goes well with fish like sardine, herring and mackeral that have a strong fishy taste. This sour and spicy preparation brings out the best flavours in this type of fish. If possible, serve hot the next day with plain rice, vegetable and pickle as flavours improve […]