Receta Kerala Style Irumban Puli Meen Curry....step by step.

Irumban puli-itta-meen-curry a.k.a fish cooked with Averrhoa bilimbi in fresh coconut gravy, is a typical South Kerala dish. Fish is cooked with irumban puli for sourness instead of tomatoes or kudampuli and freshly scraped coconut is grinded into a paste and mixed into the curry, the fish is cooked in this coconut gravy with a bunch of curry leaves and lastly drizzled with coconut oil. A mildly spiced curry, an every day curry from down South, Thiruvanathapuram, the city I lived 23 years of my life.

I had a brief visit to my parents home sometime back; most backyards of kerala houses boasts of one bilimbi tree at least and so does my parents backyard.

Amma makes this special meen curry and pickle with this puli, though I…