Achovies Dry Fish fry

Nethili Karuvaadu Fry

It is one among amma's special.my mom never used to eat dry fish, but i keep wondering how can someone be so damn good at cooking it.Cleaning it is a big process in fact. It needs be soaked in warm water for atleast 30 mins, after which you can peel the fish and clear out the  bones and wash with water again so that it loses the odour and becomes neat.

Ingredients
1.Nethili Karuvaadu(Dry fish) - 100 gms
2. Small onion - 15 nos
3. tomato - 2
4.Tamarind - 1 marble sized
5.Green Chilli - 2
6.Red Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
7.Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
8.Kulambu powder - 2 tsp(this can be substituted with more of chilli powder and coriander powder.
9.Oil - 3 Tsp
10.Gingelly oil - 2 tsp.
11.Salt.
12.Curry leaves.
13.Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp.

Precooking steps:
Clean the dry fish and keep aside.
cut the small onion length wise and finely chop the tomatos, split the green chilli in to halves.
Extract the tamarind juice.

Method:
Heat oil in a Kadaai, add mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chillies.
Add onions, saute well until it gets transparent and add tomatoes. it should be finely cooked.
add chilli powder, salt, coriander powder and kulambu powder and mix well.
add water and tamarind extract and bring this mixture to boil.
once it thickens, add the cleaned dry fish pieces and cook covered for a while.
Then add the gingelly oil and mix, wait until the oil separates.
Now it is ready to serve with rice.