Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cooking Time : 15 – 20 minutes
Serving : 3 members
Description
Broke my head over about what to start with as suddenly my mind is blank and just can’t register or re – collect any thing about this dish or prawns . Asked my boy Afzar and he was like all smiles and told I don’t want my story to be out in your web site . With no one to help me out this time ( as usual ) I just have to go with my own gut I guess . Coming to the dish ( feel a bit geared up now ) , a deceptively simple dish that let’s the prawn speak for it self with out using much ingredients and done in a few minutes other than the marination time . Finally the bulb moment has come now as I have a story about prawns to tell all of you . I have been to Mumbai a couple of times but each time there’s a big gap until my next visit again . Once when on a shopping trip for my brothers wedding we were caught up in traffic in the evening as it was raining heavily and had a long tedious drive back to the hotel as the local rails were stopped and the roads were flooded with people . We were a mixed group of kids , teenagers and adults . The kids ( actually my boy Afzar alone, still remember the fuss he made :-)) ) were getting hungry and not knowing what to do caught up in traffic , my uncle spotted a small shop beside the road selling some thing . He ran out in the rain from the car and got many huge paper cones . It was boiling hot with an inviting aroma , opened and to my surprise it was tiny mildly spiced prawns fried to crisp that was a budget friendly way to feed our Crowd too .My boy Afzar was around 5 years then and he jumped with joy seeing the prawns . All of us being busy munching the hot prawns , I was feeding my boy as well in between and in a few minutes he dozed of to sleep after a tiering day of shopping . It was intriguing and gratifying how all genders ( young and older ) loved this prawn dish . Till date he keeps asking me to prepare a fried prawn like that and I have tried my best to get close to the dish but my boy is not satisfied as yet . I guess the hunger prank that day made the prawn taste even better . Think , I have to get him hungry to that extent again to get a yes from him . Happy me as my boy didn’t want his story written in my web site but all my culinary moments revolve around my kids as all mothers world wide .
Marinate Ingredients
ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Prawns | 1/2 kg cleaned |
| garlic paste | 2 teaspoons |
| cumin powder | 2 teaspoons |
| red chilli powder | 2 teaspoons |
| green chillies | 4 chopped |
| coriander leaves | 3 tablespoons chopped |
| salt | to taste |
Seasoning Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Coconut Oil | 2 tablespoons |
| cumin seeds | 1/4 teaspoons |
| curry leaves | few |
| Lime juice | 1/2 lime |
Method
- Combine marinade ingredients and rub in to the prawn.
- Leave to marinade for 2 hour in the refrigerator .
- Heat oil in pan on moderate heat.
- When hot, add cumin seeds and curry leaves . Once they crackle slide in prawns and marinate into oil.
- Cook until well cooked and serve with a good squeeze of lime juice .
