Fish Molee

My brother , younger to me by 3 years, buzzed me on g talk the other day saying he was super bored with making the usual rice and chicken curry for dinner every day. He somehow ended up on my blog and that too on my fish molee post and asked me for clear cut directions on how to make it. I asked him to read on, to which he said, 'I don't have time to sit and read your mindless banter' ...ha so much for a lil blog promotion. I cant blame him, my mom and dad think I steal pics off the Internet and post them on my blog. The reason they think so is because....last year when I went home everyone asked me to make this and that off my blog and I refused to budge...I wouldn't even move a spoon, leave alone cook. Now why would you want to slog it out in the bloody kitchen when you are on vacation?????? And then finally I moved my butt and decided to make Tiramisu for a party. Thanks to the humid weather, the mix wasn't holding well and I threw my hands up in the air and said...sorry, I can cook only in London....Amul ice cream is a good dessert idea you know! Well, that kinda sealed the deal.

So any way, coming back to the recipe... I tried to explain how to make the molee after reading the nonsense I wrote about a year back, but I don't think I did that good a job. He was lost at, 'do you get King Fish there?' I felt confused, so I imagine he did too. We had guests over last weekend and I thought, why not make the fish curry and serve with some bread, just to convince myself I didn't do that bad a job. To my luck, I found Tilapia fillets at the local groceries and yup, this time the curry tasted a wee bit different, but the colour and consistency remained the same from what I remember. I wonder what Im doing wrong...My guests said they liked it..I guess I'll just have to take their word for it eh?
...moving on to the pics...recipe has been recreated from my first trial, just that I didn't do any tadka.

BTW does any one know why this curry is called Fish Molee/ Molly??? Was it named after a mallu or Kottayam kochamma called Molly??? Sorreee..stale joke (although I like to bug Ro saying so)