Curried Salmon (Kerala style)

Salmon is a great tasting fish . Lets give it more flavour by spicing it up in our kerala style of cooking.So here is the recipe for the delicious "Salmon Curry"



Ingredients :

Salmon - 1 lb
Garlic - 10 gm
Ginger - 10 gm
Curry Leaves - 5 nos
Shallots (sliced) - 10gm
Green chilly - 3 nos (sliced)
Onion - 1 no
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Cocum (kodum pulli)- 3 nos (soak in hot water)
coconut milk -1/4 cup

Method :
Heat a pan and add little vegetable oil . When the oil gets hot add the mustard seeds and when it spultters add the curry leaves,shallots,crushed ginger and garlic and saute well. Add the sliced onion to it and saute .When the onion turns golden brown add the turmeric powder and chilly powder and saute well.Add some water to this and when it boils add the cocum (soaked in hot water) and salmon pieces to it. Let it cook well for sometime and add the coconut milk to thicken the gravy.

Its a great tasting dish.Hope you all will enjoy this !!
Have a great easter hols .

Gift Of Malabari Cuisine

Marolis gift card is now availbale , a perfect gift for someone you care. A beautiful card depicting malabri theme gives you a value of $120 when you pay only $100.Save 20 dollar every time you load your card with $100.
Say it be a Birthday an anniversary or just a get together ,Marolis gift card will always be a valuable gift.
And for those who visit us regularly ,you can save 20% when you pay us $100 in advance and gift yourself a dicount of $20 .You neednt carry cash or bank card every time you come.Just pay in advance ,save money,and swipe the card whenever you feel like having a malabari food. A beautiful,handy, money saving "Gift of Malabari Cuisine".

Slideshow

Malabar food festival-2009

The Malabar food festival held at Maroli on 28th and 29th of November was a grand sucess.This post is dedicated to all our wellwishers,friends and customers who have helped to make this event a wonderful memorable time.

we peresented a variety of seafood and meat dishes like Squid Thoran,Fish Moilee,Crabcurry,Mutton curry ,chicken roast ,mussel fry,thoran,kadala curry,oyster stew and a lot lot more.

A variety of starters like fish cutlet,arikadukka,pakora and a variety of breads like appam, idiappam,puttu made the torontorians say WOW .


A variety of pickles,mango,fish,mussels and lime

And last but not the least the desserts and sweets burfi,jelebi,kinathappam ,payasam were all a wonder to torontorians and we were glad that we saved them a trip to Malabar coast by hosting a food festival here .


With the helps of our experienced and hardworking chefs and our wonderful friends who supported us we were able to present a variety of malabari dishes to the people of toronto.It was a pleasure to watch people taste the cuisine of our land in this far away land.

Malabar food festival at Maroli

With the inuagral food festival in 2008 becoming a huge success ,we have planned for the 2nd Malabar Food Festival for the year 2009 Hosted by Maroli Restaurant . The Malabar region of India lies along the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of the present-day Indian state of Kerala. Maroli holds the distinction of being the only Malabari (Kerala)restaurant in Toronto.

On November 28th & 29 th, Maroli will showcase savoury items from Malabar and allow visitors to taste unique Malabar cuisine, which has been influenced by Dutch, British, French, Portuguese and Arab culinary arts from various regimes in the 17th through 20th century.

Exotic dishes at the event include Oyster stew , Pan Fried Sardines, Malabar Fish Biriyani ,Fish Moilee , Appam, Shrimp Malabari ,Squid Thoran, Kallumakai Fry(Mussels) ,Kappa(Cassava) ,Nei Choru, , Chemeen curry(Shrimps) and Crab Curry .




A $25 .00 entry fee allows foodies access to this unique Indian culinary experience which includes viewing of live food preparation, as well relishing in intricately carved fruits and vegetables.This intimate experience is open to the public from Noon to 10pm on Saturday, November 28th and Sunday until 8 pm , November 29th at Maroli, Toronto's only Malabari & Indian restaurant.

Maroli- got rennovated

I am back here at my blog after a long break.Maroli was getting rennovated and that was the reason for my absense.We changed the counter, the bar settings, the walls and the floor .And now since its done we are all ready to host a "Malabar food festival " at our place on 28th and 29th of November.


We will soon be adding more to our menu.And i will keep you posted about the changes on the menu very soon.Do have a look at current menu at our website www.maroli.ca.

Onasadhya at Maroli

Its onam ( a festival) time back in kerala and we at maroli celebrated it by serving sadhya for lunch .Sadhya is a traditional kerala lunch.It is usually served on a Plantain leaf .It is a pure vegetarian meal consisting of starters,main course and dessert.Sharkara upperri (made with banana and jaggery) and bananachips were the starters.


And the main course consisted of rice,sambar(vegetables and lentil cooked with spices and tamarind and finished with corrainader leaves),pineapple pachadi (pineapple cooked in coconut,yougurt and spices), olan (winter melon and long beans in coconut milk ),mathan and payar curry (pumpkin and beans),Avial (carrot,Yam,rawnaana,drumstick cooked in coconut and yougurt and finished with coconut oil),pappadom ,Thoran (stir fried vegetables with grated coconut),puliinchi (ginger and tamarind),kalan( yogurt and coconut based curry) and rasam (a fiery hot water made of black pepper,tamarind tomato and spices) and spicy lime pickle.

And the sadhya is finished with a payasam ,parippu pradaman (moong dal cooked with coconut milk and jaggery and finished with coconut tidbits) and a small banana

We were pleased to serve our customers with a variety of vegetarian dishes thats is quite unique and which depicts our land and its culture.Onam is a festival of celebration and we were able to bring that celebation to a land far away from kerala.