Prawn Curry is am aromatic and flavorful gravy made by cooking prawns with onion, tomato, coconut, herbs and spices. Prawn Curry is an excellent choice of sea food for lunch meal and a good accompaniment with rice, roti, paratha, idli and dosa. Learn to make Prawn Curry with step by step pictures.
Prawn Curry is one of the regular dish we make whenever we get prawns. But we don’t get prawns often so this time I made sure to click and post it. I realized I can cook non-veg if someone cleans and gives me. This time I made the prawns curry getting the instructions from amma.
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About Prawn Curry
Prawn Curry or Prawn Masala is made using prawns with onion, tomato, coconut, herbs and spices. It is mandatory to clean prawns by veining first then rinsing it well and cooking it later.
If you are a seafood lover then this prawn curry is just for you. This is so tasty and goes well with rice, roti, idli and dosa. Do try this easy and simple prawn curry or prawn masala and enjoy!
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Prawn Curry Ingredients
- Prawn – Choose medium sized prawns that is fresh.
- Onion, garlic – Small onion and garlic are sauted.
- Tomato puree – Fresh tomatoes are grind to make tomato puree and added.
- Whole spices – Cinnamon, cloves and bay leaf is used for tempering.
- Masala pasta – A special masala is made using coconut and fennel seeds.
- Spice powders – Turmeric powder, Red chili powder, Coriander powder and Garam masala powders are added.
- Ginger garlic paste – Ginger garlic paste is added for flavor.
- Coriander leaves – Coriander leaves is added for garnish, adds great flavor.
How to make Prawn Curry Step by Step
1.Clean prawns first(deveining), wash it then mix turmeric powder, salt and red chili powder and set aside. Grind coconut along with fennel seeds with little water to a fine paste, Keep aside.
2.Heat oil in a kadai – add the items under ‘to temper’ then add onions and garlic fry until it turns slightly golden. Then add ginger garlic paste, fry for a minute. Now add tomato puree along with spice powders and cook till raw smell leaves. Then add marinated prawns.
2.Saute until prawns starts shrinking say 3mins. Prawn lets out water so check that and then add 1/4 water and keep closed. Cook until prawns is soft and cooked fully. Once the prawns turn soft, add required salt.
3.Now add the coconut paste and allow it to boil and get cooked until oil separates and the curry becomes saucy. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and switch it off.
Serve hot with rice or rotis as per your choice!
Expert Tips
- The curry consistency is purely our preference – if you want more gravy kind switch it off accordingly else cook for some time to make it masala.
- Clean prawns and wash it thoroughly before you cook
- This curry goes well with roti or even rice.
Serving and Storage
Prawn Curry can be served with rice, roti etc. This curry keeps well in fridge for 2 days, reheat and serve it.
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Prawn Curry Recipe | Prawn Masala Recipe
Ingredients
- 300 grams prawn
- 1/4 cup small onion
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 cup tomato puree
- 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 2 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1 tablespoon coriander leaves
- salt to taste
To temper:
- 1 tablespoom oil
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- few curry leaves
To grind to a paste:
- 1/4 cup coconut
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
Instructions
- Clean prawns first(deveining), wash it then mix turmeric powder, salt and red chilli powder and set aside. Grind coconut along with fennel seeds with little water to a fine paste, Keep aside.
- Heat oil in a kadai – add the items under ‘to temper’ then add onions and garlic fry until it turns slightly golden. Then add ginger garlic paste, fry for a minute. Now add tomato puree along with spice powders and cook till raw smell leaves. Then add marinated prawns.
- Saute until prawns starts shrinking say 3mins. Prawn lets out water so check that and then add 1/4 water and keep closed. Cook until prawns is soft and cooked fully. Once the prawns turn soft, add required salt.
- Now add the coconut paste and allow it to boil and get cooked until oil separates and the curry becomes saucy. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and switch it off
- Serve hot with rice or rotis as per your choice!
Notes
- The curry consistency is purely our preference – if you want more gravy kind switch it off accordingly else cook for some time to make it masala.
- Clean prawns and wash it thoroughly before you cook
- This curry goes well with rotis or even rice.
Sangeetha Nambi
Tempting !
Aarthi
yummy prawn curry..love it
Anonymous
Lovely presentation.Thanks.
Priti
I make in little diff way and ya me too like to cook nonveg if some one cleans n give to me 🙂
Priya dharshini
luv this curry,we make it often..Rasam sadam and this curry is addictive 🙂
priya ravi
nice prawn curry.. so tempting
Shobha
Yummy curry.. I love this kind of preparation with coconut.
dassana
your all prawn curry pics reminded me the way my mom would make prawn curry. sometimes i would help her in cleaning the prawns.
Kitchen Flavours
I too make in a much similar way but never added fennel…might have given an aromatic flavour to the recipe…love to try this…looks yum….great going in p365…
An Open Book
im drooling…yummmm
Ramya Bala
enaku shrimps na oru weakness 😉 semaya tempted now 😉 i have two recipes in my draft 🙂 and have a pack of shrimp in the freezer( it will be finished off today) 😉
Priyanka
Great recipe and stunning pics.
Suja Manoj
Yummy prawns dear..tempting
Priya
Would love to have this prawn curry with some rice..
Cilantro
I love the dry prawn curry versus the gravy. Looks delicious!
Sobha Shyam
flavourful and delicious prawn curry 🙂
Sumi
Looks a lot different from what I make. A must try recipe 🙂
Tina
perfect nd delicious…
notyet100
Curry looksyum,..it's been so lo.ng since I had prawns curry…
Spandana
Looks very delicious!!! Sea food is our fav and this is for sure very tempting!!
San
My favorite dish of all times is prawn curry. I do it the same way except for the tempering part with bay leaves sharmi. Nice pics.
hema
May i use chopped tomato instead of tomato puree. Which is best? Suggest me pls. Thanks Sharmi akka.
Sharmilee! :)
@Hema : Yes yes you can very well add chopped tomatoes, saute till raw smell leaves and it shrinks…please go ahead 🙂
Anji
Nice recipe.I will try it today only.thanks for this tempting recipe.
vikash
tried it for first time……..was really awesome…everybody in family liked it.
keneth joshua
I lik dis curry, its realy delicious……
padma n
sharmi…………i just love all ur recipes.n guess wat i have completely impressed my hubby with all ur dishes.thank u sharmi.my hubby is my fan n i'm ur fan.
saveesna pricella
I tried this yesterday. It was OMG tasty 😀 I felt so proud of myself 😀
Shankar Ram
Its simply awesome site for all kind of food. Im trying it one by one as you showed in the pictures. it is really tooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooooooood. 🙂
Bindurekha.. a line of dots, a verse
We made this last Sunday and it was a hit and again today again there is demand from the family to make it again! Thanks so much!
Eashak Ali
i cooked tonight, masha allah very nice.
Janani Rathin
Sharmi i did prawn gravy today..itsvery nice..am doin all gravies from ur blog..all came out very well..am ur big fan…..thank u sharmi……
Jeb
It came out gud..thanks for sharing 🙂
Unknown
Sis is it ok if never add coconut milk or any other replacement?
SHARMILEE J
I have not used coconut milk here, just used fresh coconut.If you don't have coconut then you can skip it but the gravy will be little runny
Unknown
Hi i tried this recipe with the exact amount and time but I think cooking this long overcooked the prawn. Made prawn rubbery. The gravey was great though. Thank you.
Jyoti Punjabi
Hi
I will definitely try this recipe this weekend.Can I replace fresh coconut with dry shredded coconut flakes..Please advise.Thanks!
Rupa
Yummy prawn gravy akka. Thanks for sharing.