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South Indian Prawn Curry

Here's how you make South Indian Prawn Curry
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 20m
  • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 4 shallots, coarsely chopped (golden)
  • 4 garlic cloves (coarsely chopped)
  • 20 grams ginger root (4cm piece, coarsely chopped)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoon oil (vegetable oil)
  • 2 green chillies (long chillies, thinly sliced, plus extra to serve)
  • 4 teaspoons ground cardamom
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 800 ml coconut milk
  • 1 curry leaf (sprig, fresh)
  • 1 lemongrass stalk (bruised and white part finely chopped)
  • 1 cinnamon quill
  • 1 star anise
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons palm sugar (soft, or to taste)
  • 500 grams fresh shrimp (16 green raw prawns, peeled and deveined)
  • 1 bunch broccolini (trimmed)
  • 100 grams mushrooms, halved (small Swiss brown mushrooms)
  • Steamed rice, fried shallots, broccolini and lime wedges to serve
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Process shallot and ginger in a food processor until finely chopped.

  • Step 2: Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat, add ginger mixture and chillies, stir occasionaly until fragrant (2 minutes) and then add spices and stir until fragrant and then add coconut mil, curry leaf sprig, lemongrass, cinnamon, star anise and 100ml water and simmer until well flavoured (10 to 15 minutes).

  • Step 3: Season to taste with palm sugar and sea salt, add prawns, broccolini and mushrooms and simmer until prawns, broccolini and mushrooms are just tender.

  • Step 4: Serve hot with steamed rice, scattered with fried shallot, broccolini and lime wedges.


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