Name: Prawns Curry
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1/4 kg Prawns (Chemmeen); 1 no Onion (chopped, medium); 1 no Tomato (chopped, medium); 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder; 1 tsp Chilly powder; 2 tsp Coriander powder; 2 nos Green chillies; Curry leaves; 2 nos Garlic pods (crushed); Salt (As reqd); 1 tbsp Coconut oil; 1/2 cup Coconut; Tamarind paste (A lemon size soaked in water); or; 4 small Kukum star (Kudampuli)

Prawns Curry

Naadan chemmeen curry

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Prep Time 20 mins

Total Time 20 mins

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1/4 kg Prawns Chemmeen
1 no Onion chopped, medium
1 no Tomato chopped, medium
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Chilly powder
2 tsp Coriander powder
2 nos Green chillies
Curry leaves
2 nos Garlic pods crushed
Salt As reqd
1 tbsp Coconut oil
1/2 cup Coconut
Tamarind paste A lemon size soaked in water
or
4 small Kukum star Kudampuli

Instructions

Clean the fish.
Fry coconut with one pinch fennel seeds, 3 small onions and curry leaves till brown in 1 tsp of coconut oil.
Blend it with water.
:- Coconut should be grated well.
Dry roast all the three powders.
Mix this with onion, tomato, crushed garlic, coconut blended, tamarind paste and salt.
Add 1 1/2 cups of water.
Cook, till the onion and tomato is well done and the curry becomes little thick.
Add prawns and cook till done.
:- Do not cook too much. It will become hard.
Add green chillies.
Heat coconut oil in a pan.
Fry 3 chopped small onions and curry leaves. Pour into the curry.