Cookbook:Keralan Prawns

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Prawns (shrimp) - cooked Kerala style.

Ingredients

• ½ kg prawns
• ¼ tablespoon red chili powder
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
• ¼ tea spoon coriander powder
• ¼ tablespoon chopped 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 2cm long each)
• 1 big green chillies
• ¼ big onion (not sweet)
• salt to taste

Procedure

1. Remove the shrimp tails and heads.
2. Cook the shrimp 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. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the turmeric, chili powder and coriander powder in it till they turn brown.
4. Put in the onion and sauté till wilted.
5. Put in the cooked shrimp and simmer and stir till it reaches a semi-dry consistency.