Easy coconut fish curry(sailfish recipe)

The easiest coconut fish curry you will ever make.
A fish curry recipe that is mild and not too spicy but gives the softest and creamy texture to the fish.
Inspired by Sri Lankan flavours and keeping in theme with simplicity, enjoy the dish with a steaming bowl of rice.

What to serve with coconut fihs curry.

• Serve with any rice dish.
  • Sri Lankan yellow rice.
  • A steaming bowl of white rice.
  • Lemon rice.
  • Ghee rice.

• Serve with various types of Indian flat bread or parathas.
  • Naan bread,
  • Chapathi or paratha.
  • Roti canai.
  • Poori.

• Homebaked bread or regular sandwich bread.

• Salads and raitas to serve with the easy fish curry.
  • A spicy pickled cucumber salad.
  • Pineapple salsa
  • Eggplant salad
  • A pineapple and cabbage slaw or Asian slaw.

• Vegetable curries to serve with the mild fish curry recipe.
  • A Sri Lankan potato-bean dry stir fry.
  • green bean curry.
  • Easy eggplant stir fry
  • Garlic butter oyster mushroom stir fry.
  • Sri Lankan spicy pineapple or a mild pineapple curry.
  • Beetroot curry

• More easy side dishes to serve with the fish curry.
  • Sauteed green beans with garlic sauce.
  • Easy sauteed potatoes or baked potatoes.
  • Grilled or oven-baked cabbage wedges.

Tips to make the best creamy coconut fish curry.

• Choose a white fish that can hold firm when cooked for a long period of time.
  Salmon, tuna cubes, and sailfish are some varieties that you can try.
• Make the mild coconut gravy first, let the gravy become thick before you add the fish. this allows you to make flavorful coconut milk gravy which the fish absorbs as it cooks.
• Knowing when to add the fish and when to remove the fish curry from the stove is important.
• Use a wide-mouth pan that will allow the fish to cook without crowding each piece.

More fish with coconut milk recipe.

• Indian prawn curry.
• Sri Lankan shrimp coconut curry.
• Prawn caldine coconut milk curry.
• Creamy malai prawn curry.

recipe overview for creamy fish curry with coconut curry

Ingredients to cook creamy fish curry.

• Sailfish, tuna, or any type of firm fish cubes.
• Water as needed.
• Oil for tempering the onions and spices.
• A few curry leaves, you can substitute curry leaves with a bay leaf.
• Minced garlic.
• Onion
• Fenugreek
• Tomato
• Turmeric powder
• Red chilli powder can be substituted with paprika powder.
• Green chillies, you can avoid adding them if you want less spice.
• Thin coconut milk-this is simply made by diluting water to thick coconut milk.
• Thick coconut milk

How to make a coconut fish curry.

Lightly rinse the fish chunks with a little turmeric powder.
Leave the fish out to drain all excess water.
Tempering onions and spices to make the fish curry.
To make the mild spice base, we first cook the onions, curry leaves, and garlic in oil.

To add a second layer of flavour, chopped tomatoes, turmeric, red chilli powder, and green chillies are added to the sauteed onions.

And cooked to make a coarse spice paste.

We add the thin milk to the spice paste.
Season the thin coconut milk gravy with salt and let it simmer over medium fire until the milk is reduced in half.

To this thin seasoned coconut milk gravy, we add the fish cubes.
Once you add the fish cubes, let the fish cook for 5-7 minutes over low-medium heat before adding the thick coconut milk.

let the fish cubes cook in the thick coconut milk until you notice the coconut fish gravy thickening and coating the fish cubes.
Make sure to taste and adjust the flavours as you need.
The result is an ultra-rich and creamy coconut fish curry, you’ll love.
Serve with any of the side dish ideas given above.