Prawn Lonvas – Recipe for Prawn Curry

Prawn Lonvas is an East Indian Recipe for Prawn Curry and is one of the delicious and popular East Indian Curry Recipes.

Lonvas is a prawn curry with coconut and is spiced curry with Bottle Masala. We also use vegetables in this prawn curry.

How to make Prawn Curry – Lonvas

INGREDIENTS FOR PRAWN CURRY

• Prawns – You will need about 1 cup washed and deveined prawns. We also prefer to keep the head and tail of the prawns intact to make prawn Lonvas. But you could choose to discard the head and skin.

• Vegetables – Lonvas is a prawn curry with vegetables. Vegetables like pumpkin, drumsticks, cauliflower, turnips, radish go well with this prawn curry. In this recipe of prawn curry, I have used turnips.

• Coconut – Lonvas is also a prawn curry with coconut. We always use fresh coconut for making this prawn Lonvas. You can also use coconut milk instead of fresh coconut. Coconut milk gives a nice creamy texture to the curry.

• Ginger-Garlic – Generally, when I mum makes this prawn lonvas, she never uses ginger-garlic in the recipe. I also follow the same recipe because we like it that way. You could use ginger-garlic when you blend the fresh coconut. If using coconut milk, use the ginger-garlic paste instead.

• Tamarind – We also add tamarind juice in almost all our seafood recipes to give a little tang to curry. If you don’t like tamarind add a little vinegar instead.

• Onion – Add one sliced onion to make this prawn curry. Adding onions are optional though you could use chopped or mashed garlic instead.

How to cook Prawn Curry

• In a vessel, heat oil and fry the sliced onion and fry till the onion is translucent.

• Then add the bottle masala and the vegetables. Add any vegetable you choose to. Now, add water, cover, and cook until the vegetables are almost done.

• Now add in the prawns and the salt and cook further for 2 to 3 minutes. Put in the coconut paste/coconut milk and also the tamarind juice.

• Add water or else add coconut milk to adjust the consistency of the prawn curry.

Your delicious Prawn Lonvas is ready in less than 20 – 25 minutes. This is a very easy recipe for Prawn Curry and generally made for afternoon meals.

You can enjoy this Prawn Curry with rice or rice or rice Rotis.

The vegetables in the prawn curry also absorb the flavour of prawns and taste awesome. Besides, your kids, who love eating prawns, will enjoy the vegetable as well.

Make this recipe of prawn curry for your next meal and then let me know how you liked it. Your comments and feedback will be highly appreciated.

Video recipe of Prawn and Drumstick Curry (Lonvas)

Easy Prawn recipes for lunch or dinner that you may like to try :

Prawns Atwan – is a spicy-tangy East Indian Prawn Curry made with onions, ginger-garlic, and bottle masala.

Prawn Pulao – This delicious prawn pulao is spicy and flavourful. You just need to have a bowl of Raita or some salad for a complete meal.

Caldine – This is a simple prawn curry with coconut milk and pumpkin.

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