Simple and Delicious !

Ingredients
Prawns 1 cup
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Garlic and ginger paste 2 tsps
Green chillies 2 chopped or crushed
Coconut milk thick 1 cup
Turmeric powder 1 tsp
Coriander powder 2 tsp
Pepper powder 2 tsp
Garam masala 1 tsp
Salt
Oil

How to prepare
Heat oil.
Saute chopped onion, then garlic ginger paste.
Add prawns and powders with salt.
Fry for few seconds till the prawns are covered with powders.
Then add tomatoes, green chillies, and coconut milk.
Boil till the prawns are cooked.
Remove from fire, garnish with coriander leaves.
Prawns need less cooking time.
Cooking prawns for a long time will make it hard.
If the prawns /shrimps are medium sized, cook them up to 4 or 5 minutes and for larger size, you can add 3 or 4 minutes too.
Don't forget to remove the intestinal vein of prawns before you cook them.
Keep the curry for half an hour before you serve.
So the juices in the shrimps will enter into the curry slowly and it will make the curry little thick and tasty.

Goes well with chappathi, rice & vellappam.

Ingredients and method

Prawns(Chemmeen) - 1/4 kg(250g)

Onion(medium) - 1 no(chopped)

Tomato(medium) - 1 no(chopped)

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Chilly powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 2 tsp

Green chillies - 2 nos

Curry leaves few

Garlic pods - 2 nos(crushed)

Salt - As reqd

Coconut oil - 1 tbsp

Coconut - 1/2 cup

Tamarind paste - A lemon size soaked in wateror Kukum star(Kudampuli) - 4 small pieces or as desired Or use raw mango 1 or 2 according to it's sourness.

1)Clean Prawns.

2)Fry coconut with one pinch fennel seeds, 3 small onions and curry leaves till brown in 1 tsp of coconut oil.

3)Blend it with water.:- Coconut should be grated well.
4)Dry roast all the three powders.

5)Mix this with onion, tomato, crushed garlic, coconut blended, tamarind paste and salt.

6)Add 1 1/2 cups of water.

7)Cook, till the onion and tomato is well done and the curry becomes little thick.

8)Add prawns and cook till done. :- Do not cook too much. It will become hard.

9)Add green chillies.

10)Heat coconut oil in a pan.

11)Fry 3 chopped small onions and curry leaves. Pour into the curry.

You can make varutharacha curry with other fishes like ayala, ayakkoora , vaala etc too.


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