Prawns malabar curry 🦐

Yui Miles
Yui Miles @cookingwithyui
UK

Delicious and delicate curry inspired from the south of Indian. I cooked this dish with lovely Radikal last year and absolutely in love with this dish.

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Ingredients

40 minutes
2 portions
  1. 350 gmsking prawns, shelled and deveined
  2. 2-3 tbspcoconut oil or vegetable oil
  3. 1 tbspmustard seeds
  4. 1 tbspgrated ginger
  5. 1small pinch of saffron
  6. 1 handfulfresh curry leaves (if cannot find fresh one, dry one is ok too)
  7. 2medium onions, finely sliced
  8. 2-3green chillies, cut in half
  9. 6-8garlic cloves, finely chopped or grated
  10. 1 tintomatoes
  11. 1 tbspturmeric powder
  12. 1 tspcoriander powder
  13. Salt to taste Salt
  14. 1 cancoconut milk
  15. 1-2 tbsptamarind paste
  16. 1 cupswater
  17. Coriander leaves, chopped, to garnish
  18. 1-2 tbsptoasted decicated coconut

Cooking Instructions

40 minutes
  1. 1

    Heat the vegetable oil a big saucepan on a medium heat. Add the mustard seeds and let them splutter for a second. Add about 3/4 of curry leaves and stir well.

  2. 2

    Add some onions and for a minute and add the green chillies. Let it fry for 5-8 min then add the garlic and quick stir.

  3. 3

    Add the tomatoes and let it cook for a few min. Let it cook for 5-8 minutes.

  4. 4

    Add powder spices - turmeric powder, coriander powder, salt and fry for another minute making sure it doesn’t burn.

  5. 5

    Now add the prawns in and cook over a low heat with the lid on stirring half way through. Add water if the sauce start to get too dry.

  6. 6

    Add the coconut milk, remaining curry leaves, the rest of curry leaves, saffron, bring to boil. Add tamarind paste in and mix well. Simmer for 5 minutes. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve with steamed basmati rice or jasmine rice.

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Garrett
Garrett @gprestage
This was very tasty, but I changed it up quite a bit. Instead of tomatoes, I used some chopped mango, lime juice and a few thin slices of lime. Also, I added some lime zest at the same time as the coconut milk. The recipe didn’t seem to say when to add the ginger, so I added it after the chillies. I’m not a big fan of curry leaves, as for me, they give a sort of earthy flavor, so I only used less than half a handful.

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