prawn curry
This prawn curry is the ultimate indulgence for Indian food lovers. You can make it with coconut milk or cream to suit your taste. It’s a Bengali recipe that will really impress your friends and family. Don’t be put off by the list of ingredients…. most are spices. (for 4 people)
What you need
600g large peeled prawns with the tails on
20ml lemon juice
50ml oil
1 small onion finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4 cloves
6 cardamon pods
3 bay leaves
1 tablespoon finely grated ginger
1 teaspoon crushed garlic
1 teaspoon chili powder
180ml coconut milk/cream
Salt to taste
Oil
The process
Place the prawns in a bowl, add the lemon juice, toss and allow to sit for about 20 minutes then drain off the remaining lemon juice.
Heat a little oil in a frying pan or wok to medium hot and fry the onions until they begin to brown. Add the cardamon, turmeric, cinnamon, bay leaves, cloves, ginger and garlic and cook for about another 2 minutes stirring constantly.
Add the chili powder a pinch or so of salt and the coconut milk or cream and bring to almost boiling(the edges of the pan will begin to bubble). Toss in the prawns, give it a shake to distribute the prawns and simmer with the lid off for about 5 minutes or until the prawns are cooked but still firm.
Serve it immediately with homemade roti.
Adding tomatoes gives it a nice saucy gravy that goes well with savoury rice ..yum ..yum and you can also use canned tomatoes
Hi Graham,
Trying your prawn curry tonite. One would think you should add tomatoes with? Just asking!
Regards
Hi Carol, If you want to try a few tomatoes, please do and let us know how it works out.. Happy days G
Hi G
Have dinner club tonight and am not an adventurous cook. I am gonna give this a bash! Keep u posted.
Nick
Hi Nick, great stuff, how did it work out? Cheers G
Gonna try this over the weekend. Have the prawns, and been wondering what to do with them (first time cooking… starting with prawns!)
Should be fun! Thanks for the recipe. Will let you know how it went 🙂
Hi Mbuso, first time, fantastic you are gonna love it. Cheers for now G
Can somebody give me the conversions for this? Thanks!
Not sure what you need to convert, but here are conversion tables, Happy new year G
https://cookbook.co.za/cooking-conversion-tables/
Hi Graham
My husband has never eaten prawn curry so I am going to try to make this recipe. I am not a good cook but having looked at so many prawn recipes on the web this looks very simple. Will let you know what the results was. thank you for sharing your recipe.
Regards I
Hi Indi, have a wonderful time and remember to have a good time in the kitchen… it comes out in your food. Cheers G
Hi Graham, somehow I landed on your site, no regrets
Your recipes are great, really simple and delicious. being from Durbs I made the prawn curry and roti on Saturday night. DIVINE!! For supper tonight I did your take on the macaroni cheese minus the meat. Wow…Keep them coming.
Hi Paula, so glad you stopped in. Gotta love Durbs, I was there on saturday and had a fantastic time. Cheers G
As always-very usefull and tasty recipes!
Thank you Pat, it is a great one. G