Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Mussels stir fry Kerala style (Kadukka or Kallummeka Ularthiyathu)

I had kadukka curry only 3 or 4 times before I come to US. First of all 'Kallummekka' aka Mussels are not very common in my place where I was brought up (Kakka erachi is available in our place, but I didn't like it until my mother found a new recipe for it). It is available in Kozhikod side,but an expensive deal to get it. First time I had this as a pickle. Some of you may be thinking what?.... It was really yummy, but I got only 3-4 pieces at that time. The story goes like this. My uncle was a doctor in Calicut (later on Kozhikode)Medical College and my Ammayi is considered to be a very good cook. We were in Trissur at that time and decided to visit Ammachan and family. For lunch Ammayi served this achar (can you believe I don't like any kind of pickles from my childhood. That me survived in Trichy hostel for three years with only achars and chutney powders. I like achars only with Kanji, it is mouth watering....) and I didn't even bother to try. When she told me it was mussels, I just wanted to know how it looks like. So she showed me the shell. It looked different from usual 'kakka', this one is a longer version of clams. My mother liked it so much and ammayi packed some for her. Everybody lavishly enjoyed it except me. After two days from no where i had an inner call to try the pickle and I liked it. What to say there were only 3 pieces left. Second time it was my maavi specially prepared kallummekka fry for some special guests whom she was expecting, eventually in the last minute the guests didn't show up. Her daughters were visiting us on that day , so she packed a good portion for us too. By the time they reached the fresh taste slowly started going away. Anyway we re-fried it and ate it. When we were in Trichy hostel, I was the only one had this dish before among 17 hungry souls. So we compelled one of our friends from Kozhikode to get it and got a ration of 2 pieces/person.
In US this one seems to be in reasonable price category, so I gave it a try and my hubby liked it. For last couple of months he was keep on reminding me that I didn't make this for long time. Today when I saw this in local supermarket I got 3.5lbs.( since the weight is including the shell you need at least 3 lbs to have some quantity once you clean it).

get these items ready

Mussels shelled uncooked - 3lbs
red onion- 1 no.
Ginger - 1 inch piece
green chilies - 6 no.
mustard seed - 1/2 tsp.
red chili powder - 1/2 tsp
coriander powder-1/2 tsp
pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 powder
garlic paste - 1/2 tsp.
tomato small - 2 no.
curry leaves - few
salt to taste

Before heating your pan :-

warning :- If you don't have enough time don't even try to make this. It takes lot of time to clean mussels

When it comes to non-veg, I am a maniac to clean it a lot, use separate knives, separate spoons and pans etc ..... etc....

The fresh mussels shells are usually closed from its mouth. You need a big pan to steam it. Wash mussels thoroughly and put it in deep pan, add water to the level of the mussels. Allow it to boil for nearly 15 min. the mussel mouth will be wide open now. Drain water, open each shell scoop out the flesh, take out the black mud like thing on its back and hair like thing inside. ( This entire process took me around 1.5hrs to complete)

split the green chilies lengthwise
cut onions into 1/2 inch thin long pieces
cut ginger into thin long pieces ( I really love fried ginger pieces in each of my bite)
dice tomatoes into small pieces

Method :-

heat oil in a pan, add mustard and splutter, add green chilies, cut onions, and ginger pieces and saute in for 5 min until the onions are tender but not fried, add garlic paste, saute it for 1 more minute. Add all the powders ( chili, coriander, pepper, garam and turmeric), keep the flame in low and fry it for few more seconds. Add diced tomatoes. Close the pan with a tight lid, keep it in low flame for 3-5 minutes until tomatoes get cooked properly. Open the lid and mash the tomatoes with a spoon. Add all cleaned mussels to it, add salt, mix all well together, close the pan with lid again and keep it in medium flame for nearly 10 min or until all mussels get cooked well in masala. Open the lid, add curry leaves and keep saute it until the mussels are well coated with masala and almost fried ( it takes another 10 min.). Don't over fry it,otherwise all mussels will turn out to be in a rubbery consistency. If you feel the curry is not spicy enough, you can add more black pepper power on top of it.
Serve hot...
It is very nice with hard drinks and cocktails
for non drinkers......
it is good with rice and curd (oh! I forgot Americans don't understand the term curd...say yogurt)
My preference
Have this nice spicy mussels stir fry with curd rice




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Looks like your recipe has been copied.

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