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    Dried Fish Chutney Recipe | Karuvadu Chutney | Naga Cuisine

    May 1, 2019 · 11 Comments

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    Dried Fish Chutney Recipe | Karuvadu Chutney | Naga Cuisine recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Dried fish Chutney is one of staple food from Nagaland cuisine. It is prepared using red/green chillies, garlic and dried fish. People from Nagaland prepare this from Naga King Chilli which is more spicy. 

    Nagaland is north eastern state of India where food is very spicy because they use green/red chilli in most of the dishes. Their cuisine mainly uses fish, pork, dried fish, chicken and some green vegetables. They don't use oil in most of the dishes. Chutney is nice accomplishment in their menu and they prepare using fermented fish or soyabean. This dried fish chutney is very simple to make with easily available ingredients in kitchen. We can do a lot of variations to this base recipe. I adapted the recipe from here. This is quite similar to srilankan sambol where we use coconutxz. Different cuisine uses the same ingredients in different way. 

    I joined Shhh Secretly cooking challenge FB group and challenge for this month is Nagaland cuisine. We have group of food bloggers who are paired up and each one gives two secret ingredients based on theme. Other one needs to cook using those two secret ingredients. My partner for this month was very talented blogger Poonam Bachhav who blogs at Annapurna. She has some amazing collection of recipes. She gave me red chilli and fish as my secret ingredients. I gave her green chilli and tomato as secret ingredient and she made delicious Naga Tomato Chutney using them. 

    Do try and let me know your feedback. You can also try the below recipes.

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    Dried Fish Chutney Recipe | Karuvadu Chutney | Naga Cuisine

    Dried fish Chutney is one of staple food from Nagaland cuisine
    Prep Time 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 5 minutes minutes
    Total Time 15 minutes minutes

    Ingredients

    • Dried fish/karuvadu 2 small packets
    • Red chillies 5-6
    • Garlic 5 small cloves
    • Oil 1 tsp
    • Coriander leaves to garnish

    Instructions

    • Take two small packets of dried fish
    • Wash and clean them and keep it ready
    • Soak red chillies in hot water for 15 minutes.
    • Heat oil in a pan and roast the dried fish.
    • Flip and roast till golden
    • Cool down and take dried fish in mixer along with red chillies and garlic.
    • Pulse it couple of times till everything is combined.
    • Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.
    • Serve Dried fish chutney with rice or any rotis.

    Notes

    You can use green chillies instead of red chillies. Adjust the chillies according to your preference
    You can use mortar to prepare the chutney instead of mixer.

    How to prepare dried fish chutney with step by step pictures

    Take two small packets of dried fish

    Wash and clean them and keep it ready

    Soak red chillies in hot water for 15 minutes.

    Heat oil in a pan and roast the dried fish.

    Flip and roast till golden

    Cool down and take dried fish in mixer along with red chillies and garlic.

    Pulse it couple of times till everything is combined.

    Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

    Serve Dried fish chutney with rice or any rotis.

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    Comments

    1. Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth says

      May 01, 2019 at 5:30 am

      Very interesting fish chutney with just flavors of the fish and chillies... would have been delicious...
      Reply
      • namscorner says

        May 01, 2019 at 4:20 pm

        Thanks Rafeeda
        Reply
    2. Renu says

      May 07, 2019 at 1:55 pm

      This looks a bit similar to the bombay duck chutney which we get in mumbai. The chutney looks very inviting and looks like a perfect pair with some rice.
      Reply
    3. Jayashree says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:29 am

      This is something new to me, fish chutney. We learn so many new dishes by exploring different cuisine.
      Reply
      • namscorner says

        May 10, 2019 at 5:03 pm

        very true. We get to know many things
        Reply
    4. Poonam Bachhav says

      May 20, 2019 at 9:32 am

      This dried fish chutney with red chilies and garlic sounds sounds interesting ! I am sure it must have tasted great . Learnt something new today.
      ★★★★★

      Reply
    5. seema sriram says

      May 23, 2019 at 9:55 am

      Such a simple recipe you have here. I will forward this to a few friends who love fish based recipes .
      Reply
      • namscorner says

        May 23, 2019 at 12:33 pm

        Thanks Seema
        Reply
    6. Pavani says

      May 29, 2019 at 3:56 pm

      Such a simple and flavourful chutney with fish. I bookmarked this recipe. Thanks for sharing this delicious chutney recipe.
      ★★★★★

      Reply
    7. Sujata Shukla says

      May 30, 2019 at 12:57 pm

      Wow! I don't take sea food, but if I did, this would be a great place to start. The red chili must be giving a real fiery taste to the chutney and it would go so well with rice or with chapatis. My daughters would love this chutney!
      Reply
      • namscorner says

        May 31, 2019 at 8:46 am

        Thanks Sujata
        Reply

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