Nikitasa Mishra
4 min readOct 5, 2023

Prawn Curry 🍛

Prawn Curry with Coconut is a zesty, sharp curry that comes from Goa and is likewise called Ambot Tik. Prepared in less than 30 minutes, serve this with steamed rice and you have a genuinely fulfilling meal.

This is precisely exact thing a wonderful dinner begins with - prawn curry made with coconut which will comfort you and cause you to feel like you are home and warm and safe.

Prawn Curry is really credible, however I need to let you know that like everything in India, each home has their own particular manner of making things

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Fixings

Here are the fundamental fixings you'll require for this ground masala

Flavors: Coriander seeds, cumin seeds, peppercorns, turmeric are the flavors you really want for the ground masala for flavor and aroma

Souring Specialist: I use tamarind which is generally effectively accessible. Sub with 1 teaspoon tamarind glue. Kokum is another extraordinary elective that is most well known in Goan food - utilize 2 bits of kokum rather than tamarind.

Coconut: Both newly ground coconut as well as coconut milk. This isn't conventional in that frame of mind of Ambot Tik yet it's the manner by which the recipe was given to me, and I additionally love the body that it makes for the sauce

Garlic in light of the fact that each great sauce needs garlic and I genuinely trust that 😂

Chillies: Kashmiri Red Chillies for that unmistakable orange tone and a gentle intensity

This is all ground to glue in a blender till its truly smooth.

When this ground glue is prepared, you'll require a couple of additional fixings:

Coconut Oil on the grounds that most beach front recipes are inadequate without it, and it adds a particular flavor that lifts the curry. You can utilize some other unbiased seasoned oil to supplant it. However, avoid olive oil for this! A decent substitute is ghee.

Curry Leaves are fundamental as a spice. In the event that you don't approach new, attempt to source dried curry leaves and twofold the sum

Prawns: While you can utilize any size of prawns with this recipe, we utilized deveined and cleaned Large Prawns or Shrimp since we love diving into them. Yet, you can without much of a stretch utilize little or medium estimated prawns assuming that that is what you have. This recipe additionally functions admirably with Fish assuming that you are in the state of mind for some Fish Curry.

Frozen versus new prawns
While working with fish, in the event that you don’t live on the coast, utilizing frozen prawns vs is in every case better. new prawns since that is fresher than new. While utilizing frozen prawns, look at my tips to thaw out prawns securely - these work for any sort of fish.

Since prawns thaw out before long (around 15-20 minutes), you can prepare all the other things - grind the masala, cook the onion, tomato combination and so on while the prawns thaw out with the goal that you have this prawn curry on the table in around 30 minutes!

Step by step recipe

1. Add every one of the elements for the ground masala into a blender. You can add a little water on the off chance that required however the coconut milk deals with the fluid part

2. Drudgery to a smooth glue. You'll see the glue changing variety and going to a profound orange

3.To make the sauce, begin by sauteing ginger and onions in coconut oil till the onions turn clear

4. Add the tomatoes and salt and cook them till tomatoes become delicate and thick

5. Pour the ground curry glue alongside about some water. You can add the water to the processor and whirl it to get any remainders of the curry glue

6. Carry it to a speedy bubble and afterward cover and stew for 10 minutes till you see oil drifting to the top

7.Once the sauce has bubbled well, add the deveined and cleaned prawns

8. Add curry leaves at this stage to keep their smell new

9.Mix and carry the curry to a fast bubble

10. Just 5-7 minutes of stewing and the prawn curry is prepared to serve!

Top tips to make this curry astounding!

Make a point to crush the glue till its smooth. Utilize a powerful blender and add somewhat more water in the event that you want. On the off chance that it’s coarse it won’t taste perfect
Utilize newly ground coconut. On the off chance that you don’t approach it, look 'newly ground frozen coconut’. New is unique in relation to dessicated coconut and they cannot be subbed
Try to stew the curry base for no less than 10 minutes or it’ll taste crude
Prawns cook actually rapidly. 7-8 minutes for enormous prawns is sufficient, 4-5 minutes for medium prawns and only 2-3 minutes for little prawns.

Enjoy 😋

Nikitasa Mishra
Nikitasa Mishra

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