Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Prawns varattiyathu

This prawn varattiyathu or inji chemmeen is again one of my Mom's dishes & my husband's favourite..she makes it without fail every time her son-in-law visits her. I dont remember how many times i must've made this either with fresh or frozen prawns; but when i have the one that she makes, it tastes so much better ..i guess thats what mom's love is all about !

my mom prefers to call it inji chemmeen 'cos it uses more ginger than anything else..its very simple to make ..with minimum ingredients u might wonder 'oh thats all is it done?'



Ingredients:

  1. prawns (cleaned & deveined) - 250 gms
  2. chilly powder - 2 tsps
  3. turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  4. salt to taste
  5. ginger - 2 tbsp (finely chopped)
  6. green chilly - 1 chopped
  7. curry leaves - 7-8
  8. coconut oil - 2 tsp

Method :

  • cook prawns with 1/2 tsp chilly powder, turmeric powder & salt.
  • Heat oil in a pan. throw in the ginger, green chillies & curry leaves.fry for a little while.
  • Add remaining chilly powder & saute till the raw smell goes.
  • now add prawns with the water (if any) & mix well. Fry for 2 more mts.
  • spicy prawns r ready ..enjoy !

9 comments:

indosungod said...

Deena, Prawns are my favorite, this is like you said a minimum ingredients dish and with all that ginger sure tastes wonderful.

Asha said...

Less is always more!!:))
Love the color and the second photo.

Jyothi said...

Hi Deena! lovely color of prawns. This is my hubby's favourite dish. Thanks for sharing.

deena said...

thanks ISG, hope u try it !
ya Asha even i like the second one..
thanks jyothi!

USHA said...

Good to see this recipe,itlooks tempting////.Oh i missed it..just 15minutes back i marinated prawns for preparing biriyani///will sure try next time.Thanks.

deena said...

thanks usha ..do try it next time ..

camelia said...

Hello,


We bumped into your blog and we really liked it - great recipes YUM YUM.
We would like to add it to the Petitchef.com.

We would be delighted if you could add your blog to Petitchef so that our users can, as us,
enjoy your recipes.

Petitchef is a french based Cooking recipes Portal. Several hundred Blogs are already members
and benefit from their exposure on Petitchef.com.

To add your site to the Petitchef family you can use http://en.petitchef.com/?obj=front&action=site_ajout_form or just go to Petitchef.com and click on "Add your site"

Best regards,

Vincent
petitchef.com

Mary, CookEatShare Author Support said...

I’d like to personally invite you to join the CookEatShare Author network. CookEatShare has had over 2.5 million unique visitors in 2009, and I think they will be interested in your content. Users will be guided to your actual blog, so this is a free way to increase page views and visitors to your site.

Please contact me at mary@cookeatshare.com for more information, to get unique link to claim and customize your profile. Please visit http://cookeatshare.com/blogs/apply for additional information.

dheeraj said...

I just came across this blog now, found good information, will be expecting more such blogs from you,

First and only online food ordering system in the history of Kerala