Prawn is cooked with the spices and ghee till the pieces are juicy, flavorful & roasted outside. It is simple, spicy and succulent. This is such an easy dish, yet so delicious and flavorful.
I usually add coconut to prawn finally in many of my curry recipes. But this one I cooked the prawn in ghee and coconut from start. I used ghee (Indian clarified butter) here. But you can use unsalted butter also.
Its been long since I made something with prawn. Finally got a chance last month to make it. I used to post a lot of recipes before and I am not actually that active like before. I am trying to cope up and lets see how it goes. I guess I should consider more professional than personal.
You can use them as a Starter and it also taste great with Lamb Biryani, Chicken Biryani, Peas pulao, Naan, paratha, or mix it with plain rice and its heaven on earth!
Other favorite similar recipes: Spicy Prawn Thokku, Spicy Tomato Thokku, shrimp Biryani, pavakkai thokku, home style fish curry
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Onion – 1 medium, finely chopped, (1 cup)
- Green chilli – 2 small, finely chopped
- Ginger – 2 inch, finely chopped
- Garlic – 6, finely chopped
- Coconut – 2 tbsp, grated
- Tomato – 1 small, finely chopped
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Garam Masala - 1 tsp
- Prawn – 3 cups
- Lemon wedges and coriander leaves to garnish
To Roast & Grind: - Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
- Fennel Seeds – 1 tbsp
- Whole Red Chilli – 3
- Pepper balls - 8
- Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp
- Shallots – 4 small
- Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
- Curry leaves – 10
- Dry roast the ingredient under "to roast & grind" in medium to low flame. Grind them with a spoon of water and keep it aside.
- In a pan, heat oil, ghee, and when heated add onion, ginger, garlic, chillies, coconut and salt and sauté till golden brown.
- Now add tomato and fry till its mushy. Add the turmeric, blended spice masala, red chilli powder and sauté for 5 minutes in medium to low flame till it oozes out oil. Check for salt and add more if needed.
- Add clean prawn, and stir well till the prawn is well blended with the spices.
- Add ½ cup of water and mix well. Close for 5 minutes.
- The prawn would have cooked well by now, mix well. See if the consistency is good for you. Or keep it open for 10 minutes and it will get roasted at the ends. (Check spice level as you add it, your spice level may differ).
- Add chopped coriander leaves, switch it off and squeeze some lemon.
Oh my, I am all ABOUT this. I love a good prawn curry, and I love how you’ve avoided making this overly creamy. Don’t get me wrong – I love the coconut component, but I think there’s a tendency to overdo it with seafood and to make the sauce overly creamy. You’ve also got me thinking about how good cilantro must be with shrimp (and all of the spices of course). I’m definitely going to have to start working with that combinations. Cheers!
Thank you Sean for this lovely comment 🙂 ! I never knew that coconut was that much used for seafood. I guess in Indian cooking, the combo is not much used. :)! Yes, i love cilantro and its great for increasing our metabolism 🙂
Thanks a lot for this lovely recipe Suganya… I was searching Google for different prawn curry and urs grasp my eyes (restaurant style 😊) … I tried it yesterday my hubby and his friends were delighted esp adding coconut in prawn curry made them surprised 🙄… love you😍 for this mouth watering recipe…
Stay blessed.. 😇
Thank you so much for this beautiful comment 🙂 Glad your family and friends loved it!
Nice recipe. Please post some fish recipes. Ğm
Sure 🙂 have some fish kuzhambu and fish fry recipes 🙂 if you want to try to start with!
Made it. Tasted like modernised kurma. Does not go with biryani. Maybe with idiyappam.
thank you shiv.
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Thanks For Sharing this Amazing Recipe. My Family Loved It. I will be sharing this Recipe with my Friends. Hope They will like it.