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Eunice Power's turmeric fish curry with yogurt flat bread: Today

Recipe courtesy of Eunice Power and Irish Yogurts Clonakilty.
Recipe courtesy of Eunice Power and Irish Yogurts Clonakilty.

Recipe courtesy of Eunice Power and Irish Yogurts Clonakilty.

Ingredients

Fish curry

  • 200g basmati rice
  • 450g fish (cod, haddock, ling) cut into chunks
  • 2 tsp ground turmeric
  • 250g Irish Yogurts Clonakilty Greek Style Natural Live Yogurt
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • Good knob of butter
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp garam masala

Flat bread

  • 175g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 175g Irish Yogurts Clonakilty Greek Style Natural Live Yogurt

Garlic and herb butter (optional)

  • 1 garlic clove
  • A bunch of fresh soft herbs, such as flat-leaf parsley, tarragon, basil, dill
  • 20g unsalted butter

Method

Fish curry

  1. Put the rice in a lidded saucepan with 240ml water and a pinch of salt. Bring to the boil, cover tightly, then turn down the heat to as low as it will go and cook for 15 minutes, without removing the lid.
  2. Chop the fish into chunks. In a bowl, mix the turmeric and yogurt, then crush in the garlic.
  3. Season well, gently stir in the fish to coat and leave to marinate for 10 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large wok or frying pan over a low-medium heat. Chop the onion, add to the butter and stir. Fry gently for 10 minutes or until softened.
  5. Add the ground coriander and garam masala, stir for 1 minute, and then add the fish and marinade to bring to a simmer. Cover and gently simmer for 7 minutes or until the fish is cooked through. Add a splash of water if you think it needs it. Taste, seasoning if necessary.
  6. Take the rice off the heat, remove the lid and fluff up with a fork. Chop the fresh coriander. Serve the curried fish in bowls along with the rice, sprinkled with the fresh coriander.

Flat bread

  1. Add all the flatbread ingredients to a mixing bowl and mix together with a spoon, then use clean hands to pat and bring everything together.
  2. Dust a clean work surface with flour, then tip out the dough
  3. Knead for a minute or so to bring it all together (this isn't a traditional bread receipt, so you don’t need to knead it for long – just enough time to bring everything together).
  4. Put the dough into a floured-dusted bowl and cover with a plate – then leave aside.
  5. If making the garlic butter: peel the garlic cloves and crush them with a garlic crusher.
  6. Pick the herb leaves onto a chopping board and finely chop them, discarding the stalks.
  7. Melt the butter in a small pan over a medium heat, then stir through the garlic and chopped herbs, then set aside.
  8. Dust a clean work surface and rolling pin with flour, then divide the dough in half, then divide each half into 6 equal sized pieces (roughly the size of a golf ball).
  9. With your hands, pat and flatten the dough, then use a rolling pin to roll each piece into 12cm rounds, roughly 2mm to 3mm thick.
  10. Use a knife to cut six lines into the centre of each round, leaving about 3cm at each end.
  11. Place the griddle pan on a hight heat, then once hot, cook each one for 1 to 2 minutes on each side, or until bar-marked and puffed up, turning with tongs.
  12. Brush the flatbreads all over with the herby garlic butter as they come off the griddle & serve.