Nei Meen Thokku Recipe - King Fish Masala Recipe with step wise pictures.
Super delicious nei meen (king fish) masala or thokku recipe. This taste so delicious when mixed with hot rice. So good.
I made it just few days back and it was delicious. I mixed it with some hot rice and it tasted divine. The main flavour for this is from gingelly oil and shallotsso try to use it. Also use kashmiri chilli powder which gives nice colour to this.
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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
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King Fish Thokku Recipe
Ingredients
- King Fish Pieces - 500 grams cubed
- Gingelly Oil - ¼ cup
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Venayam - ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves a sprig
- Shallots / Sambar Onion - 20 chopped finely
- Salt to taste
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal podi - 1 tsp
- Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 2 tblsp
- Tamarind - 1 small lemon size
- Water - 1 cup
- Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves a sprig
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard and fenugreek. Let them sizzle.
- Add in curry leaves and let them sizzle.
- Add in onions and cook till golden.
- Add in salt, turmeric and chilli powder and mix well.
- Add in tamarind water and bring it to a boil.
- Boil till thickens.
- Add in fish pieces and cook till it thickens.
- Add in pepper and curry leaves and mix well.
- Serve with rice.

Pictorial:
1)Heat gingelly oil in a pan
2)Add in mustard seeds & fenugreek seeds
3)Add in curry leaves
4)Add in lots of chopped sambar onion (shallots)
5)Saute them well
6)Saute them till light golden
7)Add in salt and turmeric powder
8)Add in chilli powder
9)Mix them well.
10) Add in tamarind water
11)Bring it to a boil
12)Cook till it thickens
13)Add in fish pieces
14)Mix well
15)Cook the masala thickens
16)Add in pepper powder
17)Add in curry leaves
18)Mix well
19)Serve
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