June 30, 2019

Recipe for Goan Prawn Chilly Fry

Name: Recipe for Goan Prawn Chilly Fry
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 1 Kg Prawns; 4 Large Onions (Sliced); 1 Medium sized Tomato (Sliced); 1 Small Capsicum (Sliced); 4 Green chillies (Slit (You can alter the number of chillies as per preference) ); 6-8 Curry leaves; 1 tspn Ginger Garlic ((recipe mentioned below)); 1 tspn Turmeric powder; 1 tspn Pepper powder; 1.5 tspn Vinegar (You can add more if you like); 1 1 maggie cube; 1/2 tspn Sugar; 1/2 cup Fresh coriander ((chopped fine)); 1 tspn Sea Salt/Fat Salt (For seasoning the prawns. If you dont have fat salt, use 1/2 tspn table/fine salt); Salt (As per taste, only if required)

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Recipe for Goan Prawn Chilly Fry

Course Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine Goan

Keyword Prawn chilly fry, prawns

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 20

Total Time 50

Servings 6 People

Ingredients

1 Kg Prawns
4 Large Onions Sliced
1 Medium sized Tomato Sliced
1 Small Capsicum Sliced
4 Green chillies Slit (You can alter the number of chillies as per preference)
6-8 Curry leaves
1 tspn Ginger Garlic (recipe mentioned below)
1 tspn Turmeric powder
1 tspn Pepper powder
1.5 tspn Vinegar You can add more if you like
1 1 maggie cube
1/2 tspn Sugar
1/2 cup Fresh coriander (chopped fine)
1 tspn Sea Salt/Fat Salt For seasoning the prawns. If you dont have fat salt, use 1/2 tspn table/fine salt
Salt As per taste, only if required

Instructions

Wash the Prawns with 1 cup water, with shell on just once and drain off all water
Take off the Head, Tail & Shell of the Prawns
With the help of a sharp knife, Slit the back of each Prawn in the centre and remove the black string like object.
Some Gyaan: The black string in the prawn is it's digestive tract. The darker the string the higher the level of dirt. Hence its always advicable to take off the string for hygiene and digestive purpose. The process of taking off the black string is called 'deveining'
Place all the prawns into a bowl and apply 1tspn salt. Mix it well and keep it aside
In a skillet, add the Onions, Tomatoes, Chillies, Curry Leaves, Capsicum and Oil.
Mix it well, cover the skillet and place it on medium flame
Once the Onions turn translucent, add the ginger garlic paste and stir well and cover the skillet
Once the raw smell of the Ginger Garlic paste reduces, add the Turmeric Powder, Pepper powder, Sugar, Maggi cube, Coriander and Vinegar and give it a quick stir
Let it further cook for about 7-10 mins and then add the Prawns
Increase the flame to high and keep tossing and stirring and mixing the Prawns with the Onions for exactly 1 minute only. Check for salt and turn off the flame
Note: If you cook Prawns foe more than a minute, it will turn hard and chewy.
Your Prawn Chily Fry is ready to serve! Yummm! Enjoy it with some Hot bread or chapatis or as a side dish to any of your sea food curries😋😋

Follow these steps to make the Ginger Garlic paste

Add the following into a mixer grinder*100 gms Garlic (skinned and roughly chopped)*60 gms Ginger (thoroughly washed and roughly chopped. Some people like to remove the skin of the ginger. I don't. However, you can do it the way you are comfortable :)-Grind these two ingredients to a thick fine paste-Transfer this paste into an Air Tight container-As soon as the paste is ready, it will be hot, due to the pressure of the mixer rotation. Please wait until the paste has turned completely cool and only then cover it with a lid-Ginger Garlic paste should be stored in the refrigerator. It can be stored up to 15-20 days