This is one of my personal favourite and this is the one which made me confident in my cooking ..Of-course thanks to my Amma …I guaranty about this recipe, if u make with exact quantity ,u are going to get a fantastic prawns roast and u will love it ….After that write to me k ….
Ingredients
1.Prawns – 1kg
2.Red Chilly powder -1 1/2tbsp
3.Kashmiri Chilly powder-1 1/2 tbsp
4.Turmeric powder -1 tsp
5.Green Chilly-4
6.Ginger-medium piece
7.Curry leaves-plenty of
8.Coconut Oil-4Tbsp
9.Salt-to taste(11/4 tsp)
Method
Take the shells out from each prawns and wash well .. Keep aside
Grind the chilly powders,turmeric powder,green chilly,ginger ,salt and curry leaves(10no) to make a fine paste…
Take a deep bottomed non stick pan and add prawns into that .. Add the fine paste of masala to the prawns ..Add 31/2 glass of water in to this and mix well..
Allow the prawns to cook …Cook it till the prawns becomes dry with masala .There should be no water left…
(U can see the prawns to be dark red in color with thick masala over it ..(Check the salt and spice.If u need more add according to ur taste .)
To this dry prawns masala add 2 tbsp of coconut oil and 20 curry leaves and saute well..Roast in low flame .in between keep on adding curry leaves and coconut oil .
Roast till the prawns get dark red color..( ..When it ready u will get a very nice and fine aroma …..
If u want u can roast it some more time.
Then remove it from fire and transfer into a serving bowl and decorate with green chilly and curry leaves …
Note :
The quantity of the chilly powder vary according to the size of the prawns..
Here i used big prawns.
If u got small one then reduce the chilly powder.
Love
🙂
Veena
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