This Andhra style spicy prawn fry (Semi-dry recipe) is spiced up by freshly ground masala. Nellore is a district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.I made this like a week back on the weekend for mutton biryani side. Usually, if I make biryani, nothing is better than that. However, everyone loved this more than biryani.
Kash eatery, one of the meat places in Toronto sent me the pacific shrimp (uncooked) and goat. I have frozen the goat and I have been doing them every weekend and it is still fresh. This is not paid sponsorship post 🙂 just mentioning them to support local business.
So, I asked my friend Madhuri 🙂 for a recipe using prawns because she cooks well and she sent me her recipe typed. Sweet. This is her recipe and she is from Andhra. I usually don’t post recipes like this unless it is too good! So, here you go! Try it and let me know!
Other favorite shrimp/prawn recipes: Prawn biryani, prawn thokku.
- Pre cooking:
- • Prawns – 20
- • Lemon – 2 tbsp
- • Salt – 1.5 tsp
- Masala:
- • Pepper – 1 tbsp
- • Cinnamon – 1 inch
- • Cloves - 2
- • Coriander seeds – 2 tsp
- • Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
- • Dry chilli (according to your spice level) – 4
- • Coconut (can use designated or fresh one) – 1 tsp
- Curry:
- • Oil - 1.5 tbsp
- • Curry leaves - 5
- • Onion – 2, finely chopped
- • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
- • Tomato – 1, finely chopped
- • Green chillies – 2, slit
- • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
- • Salt - 1 tsp
- • Coriander leaves (finely chopped to garnish) – 1 tsp
- • lemon juice (to garnish) – 1 tsp
- Take the Prawns (uncooked). Add lemon juice and salt accordingly to the prawn and keep it aside for around 15 minutes.
For Masala: - Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coriander, Fennel Seeds, Dry chilli and coconut
- Grind to a fine powder. It’s always more delicious when you add freshly grounded masala powder to this Nellore style prawn fry.
- For Curry: Now add oil to your kadai, add 2 onions, green chillies, curry leaves and a bit of salt.
- Add 1 Tomato (e.g. if you are adding 4 onions then add 2 tomatoes—- I add tomato paste from Costco too when I don’t have fresh tomatoes it adds flavour, so you can add like 2-3 tablespoons of Kirkland Tomato paste) and turmeric powder, grounded masala powder fry it for a minute or so until it mashes and mixes well. Then add 2 tbsp of water and close it for 3 minutes in medium heat.
- It will be semi-thick, Add the prawns now.
- Fry it till cooked ( which is around 4 minutes in medium heat) and then add a bit a lemon juice and coriander leaves before you turn off the stove. check for salt and adjust at this step.
- Voila Nellore Royyala Vepudu ready !!!!
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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.
