Seafood
Shrimp moilee
Prawns in a mild coconut-milk moilee with turmeric and green chilli.
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Shrimp moilee (chemmeen molee) poaches prawns in thin coconut milk with turmeric, ginger, and green chilli, the same gentle gravy as fish moilee. It is a Syrian Christian and coastal dish, served with appam, rice, or bread.
Course
Main
Region
Coast / central Kerala
Typically with
Appam, rice, bread
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