Ingredients
- Fresh
Prawns - Medium Sized - 500 grams
- Garlic
- 10 cloves
- Onion
- 4 medium sized - cut to 4 pieces
- Ginger
- 1/2 inch cut to small pieces
- Red
Chillies - 4 (Vary according to your taste)
- Tomatoes
- 2 medium sized - Cut to 4 pieces
- Lemon
Juice of 1 lemon
- Turmeric
Powder - 2 small spoons
- Mustard
Oil
- Salt
as per taste
Preparation
- De-shell
and de-vein the prawns. Make sure to leave the tails on. Clean these
properly.
- Mix
the prawns with the lemon juice, little turmeric powder and salt. Keep
aside for 30 minutes.
- In a kadhai/wok, heat the mustard oil and bring to the smoking point.
- Add
the prawns and fry them, till they turn pinkish red in colour. Make sure
that the tails do not get detached. Take out the prawns and keep aside.
- In
the same kadhai/wok, add some more mustard oil and heat it. Add the garlic,
onion, ginger and red chillies and fry them properly.
- Add
some salt and turmeric powder to the mixture and fry them properly. If you
want you can add a little amount of coriander powder and cumin powder. But
these should be freshly prepared.
- After
you get the smell of garlic and ginger, add the tomatoes to it and fry
them for some more time.
- Take
out the entire thing and leave to cool.
- Make
a paste out of these fried ingredients. (You can also add some mint and
coriander leaves while making the paste)
- In
the kadhai, add the paste along with a little water and bring to a slight
boil.
- Add
the fried prawns to this and mix properly. Keep on low flame for sometime
so that the masala goes inside the prawns.
- Now
take out the delicious masala prawns and enjoy with hot white rice.
If
you like potatoes in the prawns, cut some potatoes into small pieces and add to
the masala paste while boiling.
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