Sunday, May 8, 2011

Prawns in coconut milk

This  one was  not planned  for today but just happend.  i am a see food lover but prawns is not  my favourite, But  bass loves prawns as theer are no  fish bones in it. I love to cook to cook prawns but cleaning  and deveining  it  is  really a  trouble but thanks to pre cleaned  de-veined  frozen prawns available in market.
This  dish is very  simple ,the  addition of coconut milk  make  it very  creamy and enhances the taste.


Prawns   in coconut milk 
source:  My Mom
Time: 30 mins 

Ingredients that  we need:

2lb of  prawns (deveined)

  • 2 no medium sized onions
  • 2 no big tamato
  • whole garam masala ( 1 inch cinnamon stick, 4-5 cloves, 2-3pods of cardamom)
  • Chilli poder 
  • Turmeric powder
  • 2 spoon of  ginger garlic paste 
  • Oil
  • 1tsp of garam masala powder
  • curry leaves
  • 1 bunch of coriander leaves  
  • Coconut milk from half coconut or half tin of coconut milk from the stores

How i did  it : 
Step 1:  
  • Thaw the prawns in hot water(if u get fresh ones then  wash, clean it  and devein it) once thawed remove the tails.  I use turmeric to wash and clean any type of meat or seafood

Step 2:
  •  Add oil to the nonstick vessel , and when the oil is hot add finely chopped onions and green chillies
  • when the  onions is slightly brown all the ginger garlic paste , fry  well till the raw smell is  gone.
  • The add finely chopped tomatoes, turmeric and chilli powder and salt, fry  well till the  tomatoes are  finely done.
  • At this  stage add prawns and  lower the flame 
  • Cook well till the the prawns are soft and gets blended in tomato gravy , add  garam masala powder.
  • Oil will start oozing out from the sides, at the  stage  add finely chopped coriander leaves, mix well, 
  • cook for another 2-3 min add coconut milk and lower the flame , cook it  the coconut milk gets boiled  and oil oozes out.
  • Serve with plain  hot rice  or chapathi

3 comments:

  1. Yamiiii yamiiiiii....
    well done Motii..... great job, really a fantastic idea to have this...

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  2. Thanks Kishya , need encouragement like this.

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  3. hey, you didn't tell me about your blog. Good start,great I have a company now :).

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