Caldine Curry

The Caldine Curry is a yellow non spicy Goan curry, its usually made with fish, but some people make it with prawns as well as vegetables. But the original caldine curry is made with any fleshy fish. Let's take a look at what goes into making an authentic Goan caldine.

Caldine Juice Ingredients:


1 Coconut
1/2 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds
10 Pepper Corns
1 Tablespoon Coriander Seeds
2 Inch piece Turmeric
2 Flakes Garlic
Small Ball Tamarind
2 Cups Warm Water

Caldine Curry Ingredients


1/2 Kg Fish (Pomfret Mackerel or any fleshy fish)
2 Onion Sliced
1 Tomato Sliced without Skin
2 Tablespoons Oil
1/2 inch Ginger
2 - 3 Green Chillies
Salt n Vinegar to Taste

Lets start of with the Caldine masala, put all the ingredients mentioned above in the mixer, add the warm water and start blending.

Once your done with that you will get this lovely yellow masala that looks like what it is below, a very pleasing colour.

Sieve the masala with a strainer not a muslin cloth so that its nice and thick, once thats done keep the Caldin juice aside and lets proceed.

Put the two table spoon of oil in a vessel to get warm. Chop the skinned tomato and onions into small pieces.

Saute the onions, tomatos and the piece of ginger, which is once again diced into small bits.

Once thats done, you have two choices, you can either add a little water or a little coconut milk to the saute. Then add the fish, we had some thin coconut milk which we added and then dropped in the fish.

Once the fish is in, you add the Caldine masala's juice and let it cook for a while.

Once you add the Caldine juice to the saute and the fish, you can add the sliced green chillies and let the fish cook.

You can add some coriander for garnishing, when the fish cooks your caldine is ready to eat!

A Simple Chocolate Fudge

Well this is not exactly a Goan Recipe, but since we have not shared a new recipe for a long time, we decided to put this one up here. Its also known as a Refrigerated Chocolate Cake, its an easy to do recipe that tastes yummy as a dessert especially when its complimented with some Vanilla ice cream

So lets take a look at how its done, your ingredients are,

Marie Biscuit: 100gms
Walnuts: 50gms - 100gms
Butter 100Gms
Castor Sugar: 50gms
1 Egg
Cocoa: 1 Tbsp
Vanilla Essence 1 Teaspoon
Rum 1 Teaspoon
Rum Essence

Now that we have the ingredients ready, lets start the procedure, you need to crush all the Marie biscuits with a Baton shown in the picture, we dont want it done in a blender because the crunchiness will disappear.

Once your done with that, sieve the coco. Then add it to the the crushed biscuits, you can also add the pieces of walnuts, prior to adding them make sure they are broken in to smaller pieces so its spreads evenly and is not difficult to eat as well as slice with a knife. Once this mixture is ready keep it aside for a while.

Create a water bath, also known as Bain-marie.

While it heats up you can get your castor sugar ready if you do not have any.

Take some normal sugar and blend it till its a fine powder.

Add the butter to the water bath and wait for it to melt.

As the butter is melting you can proceed to beat that egg up

Hopefully by this time the butter has melted quite a bit. Now add the castor sugar to it and then the egg into it.

Now keep stirring until the butter has melted completely and everything is mixed

When thats done take the water bath off the fire and add the walnut, cocoa and Marie biscuit mixture to it, you can start mixing it now

Add the vanilla essence

The rum also can be added, if you are adding rum no need of the essence, and if you don't want the rum flavor theres no need for the rum essence.

The rum though can be added as per desire, its good for taste and you can also have a flambe by pouring a little more on it later and lighting it up while serving.

Once its all mixed well you can remove it and place it in a mould.

Keep it in the refrigerator until its cold. Turn it around into a serving dish, here's your easy to make delicious choco fudge.

The refrigerated chocolate cake shown in the picture is of little more than double the quantity. You can also add a little more sugar if you have a sweet tooth.