Pepper Prawns Fry | Eral Milagu Varuval | Spicy Shrimp Masala

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup Prawns (cleaned & deveined)

1 onion

2 tomatoes

1tsp ginger-garlic paste

¾ tsp chilli powder (adjust to taste)

1 ½ tsp coriander powder

½ tsp turmeric powder

¼ tsp garam masala

1tsp pepper corns

¾ tsp fennel seeds

1tbsp oil

Salt (to taste)

Coriander leaves (to garnish)

How to make it

• Clean and devein the prawns. Wash with little of turmeric powder to get rid of the smell. Keep aside.
• Finely chop the onions and tomatoes. Grind ginger and garlic together. If ur using readymade ginger-garlic paste, then skip it step.
• Sauté both pepper and fennel seeds for a while and coarsely grinds them together in a mixer. Don’t make it very smooth. I used my mortar and pestle to grind it.
• In a wok heat oil and sauté the onions till it turns transparent.

• Add ginger garlic paste and sauté further. When the raw smell leaves add the chopped tomatoes and cook well.

• Cook till the tomatoes goes gooey. Then add the spice powders one-by-one.

• Add 1 cup of water to make the masalas to cook. When it comes to boil, add the cleaned prawns and cook.

• Prawns when cooked change its color to pale pink. Cook till the masalas and prawns blend together.

• At the end add the coarsely ground powder of pepper and fennels. Mix well till the oil oozes out.

• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with steamed rice.
• Steamed rice with any type of rasam are the best combination for the prawns.