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Keralan Prawns

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Keralan Prawns — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Ingredients

  • ½ kg whole prawns
  • ¼ tablespoon red chile powder
  • ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
  • ¼ teaspoon coriander powder
  • ¼ tablespoon minced ginger
  • 3 tablespoons oil
  • Kudampuli (Malabar tamarind) to your preferred sourness (can be substituted with lime juice)
  • 15 curry leaves
  • 20 pieces chipped coconut kernel (thin slices approximately 2 cm long each)
  • 1 big green chile
  • ¼ big onion (not sweet)
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. 1
    Remove the prawn tails and heads.
  2. 2
    Cook the prawns in water with ginger, salt, curry leaves, green chillies, kudampuli and coconut. Leave a little water in the vessel at the end of cooking.
  3. 3
    Heat the oil in a pan and fry the turmeric, chili powder and coriander powder in it until they turn brown.
  4. 4
    Add the onion and sauté until wilted.
  5. 5
    Add the cooked shrimp and simmer, stirring, until it reaches a semi-dry consistency.
Cuisine
Indian

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Keralan_Prawns