As you all know Sri Lanka is an island, we have lots of sea food dishes in our meals. Prawns are the most popular and also very special dish in occasions, parties and also in our day to day meals.
Even prawns are little bit expensive, most of Sri Lankans love to eat prawns as I know. We have so many ways to cook prawns, but prawns curry is the most popular way of cooking because we love to eat spicy food a lot. (If you don’t like to eat so much spicy, reduce the amount of chili powder.)
Try the recipe by your self too. I hope you also will love the dish as we all Sri Lankans do :-)
Good luck with the recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
200g tiger prawns
2 cups coconut milk
1 onion – sliced
3 cloves of garlic –sliced
½ of a lime - juice
1 x 1.5cm cinnamon piece
5 – 6 curry leaves
1 teaspoon Sri Lankan raw curry powder
1 ½ teaspoons Chili powder
¼ teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon toasted chili powder (optional)
5 – 6 tablespoons oil
Salt to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Place the onion, garlic, cinnamon, curry leaves, turmeric, chili powder, Sri Lankan raw curry powder, coconut milk & salt a medium size saucepan and mix it well. Then add the tiger prawns into the saucepan and keep it on medium high heat for nearly 15 minutes.
Then transfer the curry into another bowl and add the oil into the saucepan. When the oil is ready fry the each side of prawns for nearly 5 - 6 minutes. When the frying part is over add the toasted chili powder into the prawns and mix it well. Then add the curry into the prawns and let it be on low heat for nearly 5 - 10 minutes.
Add the lime juice, and give a quick stir.
Taste for salt.
(Stir the curry while you are cooking. If you don’t, the coconut milk will get curdle.)
SERVING:
You can have this prawns curry with any kind of rice, noodles, bread or anything.
NOTES:
If you don’t like to use the same saucepan for frying the prawns, you can use another one.
ENJOY!!!
Even prawns are little bit expensive, most of Sri Lankans love to eat prawns as I know. We have so many ways to cook prawns, but prawns curry is the most popular way of cooking because we love to eat spicy food a lot. (If you don’t like to eat so much spicy, reduce the amount of chili powder.)
Try the recipe by your self too. I hope you also will love the dish as we all Sri Lankans do :-)
Good luck with the recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
200g tiger prawns
2 cups coconut milk
1 onion – sliced
3 cloves of garlic –sliced
½ of a lime - juice
1 x 1.5cm cinnamon piece
5 – 6 curry leaves
1 teaspoon Sri Lankan raw curry powder
1 ½ teaspoons Chili powder
¼ teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon toasted chili powder (optional)
5 – 6 tablespoons oil
Salt to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Place the onion, garlic, cinnamon, curry leaves, turmeric, chili powder, Sri Lankan raw curry powder, coconut milk & salt a medium size saucepan and mix it well. Then add the tiger prawns into the saucepan and keep it on medium high heat for nearly 15 minutes.
Then transfer the curry into another bowl and add the oil into the saucepan. When the oil is ready fry the each side of prawns for nearly 5 - 6 minutes. When the frying part is over add the toasted chili powder into the prawns and mix it well. Then add the curry into the prawns and let it be on low heat for nearly 5 - 10 minutes.
Add the lime juice, and give a quick stir.
Taste for salt.
(Stir the curry while you are cooking. If you don’t, the coconut milk will get curdle.)
SERVING:
You can have this prawns curry with any kind of rice, noodles, bread or anything.
NOTES:
If you don’t like to use the same saucepan for frying the prawns, you can use another one.
ENJOY!!!
7 comments:
Chamri,
Thanks for the lovely tiger prawn curry but wish you n\didnot use your fingers to mix it as it is not hygenic and also wish your cooker was clean as it does not give a good impression of our lovely Sri lanka and the great clean Sri Lankans! Please be thoughtful next time please!
this is a great recipe, love prawn curry.
to "anonymous" - my kitchen isn't spotless and neither are ANY of the kitchens I've seen in Sri Lanka... things are perfect in TV fantasy worlds... but not in the world of rice and curry in real Sri Lanka.
I agree with Brett. Please keep going Chamri! You are doing a good job. And as far as anonymous is concerned, if you feel that this is good enough why don't you start a blog yourself?
Errata : meant to say "...if you feel that this is NOT good enough..."
Its powder, not power!
STOP being a mean prick this is not right that is not right, idiots.
Chamri you are a great cook , these poeple who say such things can't even boil a freaking water.Loved your recipes,u are gifted.Thanks for sharing,its so generous of you dear.Good luck.
Hello Chamri,
Just wanted to let you know that I tried this recipe and it was delicious. It tasted just like how my grandmother used to make it. My mother passed away when I was very young and I was in a boarding school practically most of my life. I would visit my grandparents on vacations and my grandma was a great cook! most of your recipes are very similar to hers and remind me of good ol' times in SL. I really wish now that I would have spend more time learning to cook from her but thanks to you and the great videos you posted I am learning to be a better cook! I hope you ignore the rude comments some have posted here and keep posting recipes for us to try. There are always going to be negative, bitter people around, but don't pay them any mind.
Piumika
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