Prawns Curry

My mom's Prawn curry is simply delicious.

you will need:

1/2 cup prawns (peeled de-veined)
Salt to taste
2 green chillies
1 medium onion, sliced
1 tomato
1 potato chopped into 8 pieces
1 cups grated coconut
1 tbsp coriander seeds
½ tsp cumin seeds
2 cloves garlic
8 red, dried chillies or peppers
4 peppercorns
½ tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp tamarind pulp
1 1/2 cups warm water

Method:
Wash, clean prawns . Mix it with the salt, green chillies,chopped tomato,potato and onion. Keep aside. Combine all the rest of the ingredients, except the tamarind pulp, and grind to a fine paste, and extracting the spiced coconut milk by putting it through a sieve by adding warm water to extract the juice.

Now put the coconut extract in a deep pan on a medium heat, add the marinated prawns and let it cook for 15 minutes . Add the tamarind pulp to the boiling sauce. Stir cook, adding more salt if necessary. When the fish curry is reduced to half its quantity, remove the curry and put it into a serving dish.

Batica (Semolina Cake)

You will need
3 coconuts
1/2 kg semolina
1 kg sugar
250 gm ghee
12 eggs
8 cardamoms

Method:
Scrape the coconuts and grind them finely with minimum water. Lightly fry the semolina in a pan.
Make a syrup with sugar and a little water. Let the syrup be of one thread consistency. Keep aside to cool.
Then add the coconut, semolina and the egg yolks along with the sugar till nicely mixed. Beat the egg whites till fluffy; add them to the mixture a little at a time. When all used up, mix the batter thoroughly and let it stand for four hours. Bake in a Preheated oven until golden brown.

Prawn Amto (Prawns and raw mango)

This is a dish which is often prepared during the mango season. Normally small variety of prawns are used for this dish.

you will need:
250 gms prawns
1 big raw mango
1 big onion
1/4 tsp turmeric
2 green chillies
oil
salt

Method

1. Shell the prawns clean well ,add salt and keep aside.
2. Peel the raw mango and cut into 4 pieces.
3. Cut the onion and slit the green chillies.
4. Heat little oil in a pan and saute the onions lightly.
5. Add prawns,turmeric,green chillies and raw mango pieces and saute for some time.
6. Cover and cook on medium heat you may add little water and cook till the raw mango is tender.
   

serve as a side dish with rice.