Thursday, July 8, 2010

Curious Epicurean - Prawn Curry


Try this simple dish please.

Ingredients :-
3 medium sized red onions
4 cloves garlic
thumbsize ginger
2 onions and 2 tomatoes, quartered
3 sprigs curry leaves
a pinch each of fennel, mustard & cummin seeds
3 Tablespoons chicken curry powder
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 cups water (or 1 1/2 cups for thicker sauce)
600g medium sized prawns, body only shelled

Method :-
1. Grind the first 3 ingredients.
2. Heat 5 Tablespoons of cooking oil and fry til fragrant (but not burnt!) the ground ingredients,
curry leaves and seeds.
3. Add the curry & turmeric powders and fry to combine, til fragrant.
4. Drop in the quartered onions, tomatoes and water.
5. Allow to boil for 4 minutes to ensure that curry powder is cooked through and thickened.
6. Add prawns and allow to simmer for 2 minutes.
7. Off flame, the remaining heat will cook prawns through which will result in a perfect texture
for prawns.

Eat with plain white rice please.

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