How to make Prawn Curry with Spring Onions

This is a post on How to make Prawn Curry with Spring Onions. This spicy East Indian Prawn Curry Recipe uses the East Indian Bottle Masala as the main spice ingredient.

This is also a tangy Prawn Curry with tamarind that makes the curry all the more appetizing. The spring onions give a new twist to a traditional prawn curry recipe, you must certainly try this.

How to cook a Prawn Curry with Spring Onions?

• PRAWNS – Use fresh prawns for this recipe, preferably with its head intact. We love cooking prawns with its head intact as this gives the curry a distinct flavour. But in this recipe, I discarded the heads and the curry still tasted wonderful. Select firm prawns so that it would be easier to keep the heads intact.

• SPRING ONIONS – You will love the taste of spring onions along with its leeks in this recipe of prawn curry. Besides spring onions I also like to use some sliced onions for this recipe.

• TAMARIND – This is basically a curry that also uses tamarind. East Indians prefer tamarind to give a tangy flavour to any curry. We extract the juice of tamarind in warm water and then add it to the curry. For this recipe, I have added a little whole wheat flour to the tamarind juice. This will give thickness to the otherwise thin curry.

• BOTTLE MASALA – As I mentioned earlier, the East Indian Bottle Masala is the main spice of this delicious Curry. If you do not have Bottle Masala I suggest using any curry masala or Red Chilli powder with a little garam masala.

• GINGER, GARLIC & GREEN CHILLIES – Use ginger, garlic, and green chillies in any form for this curry. You could use them crushed, minced, or even juliennes.

Instructions on how to cook a prawn curry

PREP THE INGREDIENTS

• Wash and devein 500 grams of prawns and preferably keep the heads intact. Add salt to taste and allow the prawns to rest for 10 minutes.

• Into one cup of warm water add a small lime sized ball of tamarind along with a tbsp of whole wheat flour. Allow it to rest for 5 minutes and then extract its juice and set aside for use in the curry later.

• Cut the ginger and garlic into juliennes and also slit the green chillies. Also, chop 3 to 4 sprigs of Spring Onions and set aside.

PREPARE THE CURRY

• Heat a pan with 2 or 3 tbsp of oil and add in 02 sliced onions. Fry till the onions are translucent, simultaneously add the ginger garlic, and green chillies.

• Simultaneously add in the spring onions along with the leeks and continue to stir fry for a few more minutes. Do not soften the leeks let there be some crunch.

• Now add the prawns and the Bottle masala and mix gently. Also, add in the tamarind juice and approx 250 ml water to make the required gravy for the prawns’ curry.

• Cover the vessel and let the curry cook for 7 to 8 minutes or till the prawns are done. Finally, garnish with freshly chopped coriander leaves and then switch off the flame.

Now that you know How to make Prawn Curry with Spring Onions, hope you will make it and enjoy with rice or rice Rotis. Also, let me have your feedback and comments on this recipe.

Recipe Video.

Other Prawn Recipes you may like to try

• PRAWN LONVAS – East Indian Curry

• EAST INDIAN RECIPE OF PRAWN CURRY

• PRAWN DRUMSTICK CURRY

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