Sri Lankan Cuisine

Prawn curry

Cuisine: Sri Lankan Created by Peter Kuruvita

All the delicious depth of flavour of a good Sri Lankan curry in a velvety creamy sauce with the prawns tucked into each other two at a time to create a seafood version of the yinyang symbol, served stacked with a moat of the sauce around the bowl with rice and pickles served separately.

Tip:
The sauce can be made in advance and reheated while the prawns cooked quickly.

Ingredients

30 curry leaves
10 eschallots, sliced
12 cloves garlic, sliced
1 knob ginger
10 whole prawns, cut into pieces (heads removed)
1 tbsp fenugreek
5 cardamom pods
2 tbsp cumin powder
4 tbsp coriander powder
2 cinnamon sticks
½ tbsp fish curry powder
¾ tbsp chilli powder
1 tbsp turmeric
1 piece goraka
1 pandanus leaf
5 cloves
2 tbsp paprika
2 long green chillies
Salt
500ml coconut milk
Coconut oil or ghee

5 prawn heads
500ml coconut milk

Prawns (for final dish) heads removed and peeled
Juice of ½ lemon
Fresh coriander, to garnish
Pickles and steamed samba rice, to serve

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Preparation

Curry Sauce

Heat oil or ghee and add curry leaves, eschallots, garlic and ginger and cook until the eschallots are translucent.

Add chopped prawns and spices, stirring all the time.

Stir in 500ml coconut milk, and salt to taste. Cook gently for 8 to 10 minutes.

Meanwhile take the prawn heads and grind to a paste in a food processor, strain through a fine sieve. Mix strained prawns with 500 ml of coconut milk.

Add prawn & coconut mixture to the spice mixture and simmer without boiling. Remove from heat.

Curry Prawns

Arrange peeled prawns in pairs in pan.

Strain curry sauce over prawns until just covered. With lid on, simmer prawns gently in curry sauce until cooked.

Squeeze over the juice of ½ lemon.

Layer prawns in stacks with coconut and kangkung sambal between the prawns, spooning some of the sauce over, and garnish with fresh coriander.

Serve with rice and pickles.

Sri Lankan Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 34 Sri Lankan Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Araliya	Hawthorn
2.	Blue Elephant	Pennant Hills
3.	Radio Cairo	Cremorne
4.	Annalakshmi on the Swan	Perth
5.	7 Spices	Applecross
6.	Woodapple	Hampton
7.	Tas Ceylon	Lenah Valley
8.	Banana Leaf	City
9.	Jazzi's Indian & Continental Restaurant	South Hurstville
10.	Flavour of Ceylon	Parramatta

16 Nov 2008 02:04 AEST

Jane

Philip

Best prawns I've ever tasted

Best prawn curry I've tasted...This recipe works with fish too...Has to be chunky, firm fish...

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