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Prawn Curry
🍗 Non-veg🌾 Gluten-free📊 Medium
Traditional 40. Prawn Curry recipe
⏱️10 minPrep
🔥12 minCook
🕒22 minTotal
🍽️4Serves
🧺 Ingredients
👩🍳 How to make Prawn Curry
- Season prawns (5 mins): Toss prawns with 1/2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste, 1/4 tsp turmeric, salt, and 1 tsp lime juice. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Brown onions (3 mins, medium-high heat): Heat coconut oil, add sliced onions. Fry for 2-3 minutes until softened.
- Build spice base (3 mins, medium heat): Add remaining ginger-garlic paste and cook for 1 minute. Add Kashmiri chili powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder. Stir for 2 minutes; oil separates.
- Add tomatoes (3 mins, medium heat): Add chopped tomatoes, cover and cook for 2-3 minutes until broken down.
- Add thin coconut milk (2 mins, medium heat): Pour thin coconut milk, bring to gentle simmer.
- Finish with thick coconut milk (2 mins, low heat): Pour thick coconut milk slowly, stirring gently. Simmer for final 1-2 minutes. Curry should be creamy, not thick.
📖 Cultural notes
Chemeen Curry, traditionally made with small river prawns during monsoon, has evolved to celebrate larger coastal prawns in a delicate coconut gravy balancing sweet, sour, and spicy flavors. ---
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