Sunday, 17 June 2012

Sweet 'n' Sour Prawn Piyaaji >> was my recipe on mamma's birthday

I will share the recipe of || Sweet 'n' Sour Prawn Piyaaji || and the name is given by me indicating the taste and majority of onions. Everyone loved it except the fact that I used a bit much chilly powder :( :( :( and even I felt the same. I was actually in a hurry and gave chilly powder twice. :P :P :P... I won't chappar chappar too much and going straight to the recipe.



Ingredients needed (For 5 serving):

1) Prawn: 600gm (fully deshelled and marinated with salt for 15 mins)
2) Onions: 2 big sized (chopped)
3) Garlic: 1 tsp (finely chopped or paste) >> I used finely chopped ones
4) Ginger: 1 tbsp (paste)
5) Sugar: 2 tbsp
6) Red chilly powder: 1 tsp
7) Green chilly paste: 1+1/2 tsp
8) Garam masala powder: 1/2 tsp
9) Butter: 1 tbsp
10) Mustard oil: 4 tbsp
11) Tamarind pulp: 1 cup
12) salt: according to taste

Method:

1) Heat the oil, and stir fry the prawns (don't let them become brownish, only a pink tint will be there) and keep them aside.
2) Add the onions into the oil and fry for 1 minute.
3) Add the chopped garlic and sugar; fry until the onions become brown.
4) Add fried prawns, ginger paste, red chilly powder, green chilly paste,salt and fry well for 2-3 mins until the oil comes out of the spices(well fried).
5) Add the tamarind pulp and 1 cup water.
6) When the water starts boiling, add garam masala powder.



7) Cook for 5 mins in medium heat.
8) Keep it in a bowl and add butter( if you want to use small butter cubes, spread them and let them melt in the heat itself).

And you Sweet 'n' Sour Prawn Piyaaji is ready to serve.........



4 comments:

  1. Seems to be interesting, lemme try it at home.. :)

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    1. hmmmm sure..nd lemme know how it tastes..

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  2. useless to me....i even cant bear the smell of prawns forget about cokking and eating it....:P ;)

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    1. u can replace prawns with chicken if u want..

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