Marvai Sukka or Clam Sukka is a signature dish of the costal part of Karnataka province inwards India. You volition non abide by it anywhere else inwards the province as well as you lot volition never run into it on the carte du jour of an Indian eating seat abroad!! But people from the costal areas of South Canara would produce anything for this dish! Those who receive got seafood allergies, opt for the chicken version which you lot tin can abide by here. There is too a vegetarian version where dark chick peas as well as ivy gourd is used.
So what precisely is this dish? It is basically clams cooked amongst Indian spices as well as freshly grated coconut. It is mouthwateringly delicious!! And truthfully, it is non all that difficult to cook. Well, my version isn't!;) You all know that I don't similar anything that is boring or has lengthy procedures!! Do endeavor this if you lot acquire a chance..
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Now, permit us banking concern check out Marvai/Clams Sukka recipe!
Prep time: 25 minsCook time: twenty minsTotal time: 45 mins
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients:
Clams : whatsoever size volition do 1 lb/ 1/2kg.I used a dozen piddling cervix clams.
Lemon juice: from 1 modest lemon
Coconut oil: 2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbsp
Onion : 1 medium
Tomato : 1 medium
Curry leaves : 1/4 cup
Chilli pulverization : 1 tsp ( tin can hold upwards adjusted equally per private spice level)
Coriander seeds : 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds (jeera): 1 tbsp
Black pepper pulverization : 1/2 tsp
Turmeric pulverization (haldi): 1 tsp
Garam masala powder: 1/2 tsp
Freshly grated kokosnoot : 1 cup
Salt: equally per taste.
Method:
Soak the clams inwards fresh H2O to construct clean the sand off. Clean the clams thoroughly.
Add it to a pot amongst 1/2 loving cup water. Cover as well as convey it to a boil. Let it boil for 2-3 mins or until the shells open. Turn the stove off. Let it cool down.
Once cooled down, divide the clam meat from the trounce as well as proceed aside. Reserve some of the liquid inwards which it was cooked.
In the meantime, educate the masala/sauce.
Heat 1 tsp kokosnoot crude oil inwards a sauté pan or kadai. Sauté curry leaves lightly as well as proceed aside.
Add 1/2 loving cup freshly grated kokosnoot amongst coriander seeds as well as cumin seeds to the same pan. Sauté until it turns lite brown. Let it cool downwardly completely.
Once it cools down, grind it with pepper powder,chili pulverization as well as garam masala powder. Keep it aside.
Add 1 tbsp kokosnoot crude oil to the pan . Add chopped onions as well as love apple tree to the same pan. Sauté until lightly chocolate-brown as well as crude oil separates.
Add ginger-garlic glue as well as sauté for 3-4 minutes .
Add the basis glue as well as mix well. Add the clam meat, the reserved liquid as well as convey it to a boil. Cover as well as educate until the clams are tender.
Add the remaining fresh kokosnoot as well as educate for 2-3 minutes.
Garnish amongst the roasted curry leaves.
Serve hot amongst rice/roti or bread!
Cooking made easy:
This dish is made fifty-fifty to a greater extent than flavorful past times adding couplet to a greater extent than clam shells inwards the sauce spell cooking it.
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Food for thought:
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