No need for working your muscles too hard on this dish. Why? Because the dish of month that you may try with mussels (locally known as Kallummakaya) adds on to your muscles, rather than wasting them. All you need for making ?Kallummakaya Ularthiyathu? a popular Kerala delicacy, which is quite popular in the northern districts of Kerala, especially in the District of Kozhikode are as follows:

Ingredients Quantity Coconut oil 50ml Fennel 10ml Curry leaves 1 Ginger julienne 50g Green Chilly 25g Coconut slice 25g Mango puree 1tsp Chilly powder 11/2tsp Turmeric powder 1/2tsp Coriander powder 1 1/2tsp Tomato 100g Salt to taste Mussles 1 kg Small onion 250g Below mentioned items should be crushed Fennel 10g Pepper corn 10g Red chilly 10g Small onion 50g

Method of preparation 1. Heat the coconut oil in pan and temper Fennel and Curry leaves. 2. Add ginger, green chilly, small onion, coconut slice and then make it brown. 3. Then add chilly powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder after tomato slice. Saut? it well, till it becomes paste. Add mussels, add some salt to taste and then saut? it well till it becomes dry.

Courtesy: The Travancore Heritage