Kappa

Not a very elegant looking dish, but kappa and meen curry (casava and fish curry) is a fab combination and is one of my favourites.

This is the recipe for Kappa/ Casava

Ingredients:

1-2 medium sized Tapioca (a.k.a Casava/ Kappa)

Set1-
1/2 cup Grated coconut
1 tsp Jeera
4 green chillies
4 garlic pods
few curry leaves
1/2 tsp turmeric
salt

Set 2-
Mustard seeds
1 onion, sliced
curry leaves
2 dried red chillies
Coconut oil

Method:
1. Peel the tapioca and cut into roughly inch sized pieces.
2. Cook tapioca with water and salt. Drain well and keep aside
3. Grind set 1 ingredients with little water to form coarse paste
4. Arrange paste on top of kappa addding little water
5. Splutter mustard seeds and then all the other ingredients in set 2 and add to vessel
6. Close with lid and cook for 5 mins
7. Open and stir well

Kappa is ready to serve. This goes best with red chilli fish curry.