Sunday, July 21, 2013

Chemeen Chatti Curry

Chemeen Chatti Curry

Ingredients
500 grams prawns cleaned and deveined
½ teaspoon mustard seeds
2 medium tomatoes chopped
¼ teaspoon fenugreek seeds
1 medium onion chopped
2 sprigs curry leaves
1 cocum/kudampuli
1” julienned ginger
1 slitted green chili
3-4 tablespoon Kashmiri chili powder
1 ½ - 2 tablespoon coriander powder
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
½ cup water
1 ½ cup thick coconut milk
Salt to taste
2 tablespoon coconut oil

Method
  • Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a chatti (earthern pot) and splutter mustard and fenugreek seeds.
  • Sauté onion, green chilies, curryleaves and ginger for 2 minutes.
  • Add Kashmiri chillipowder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and sauté for a minute on low flame.
  • Stir in the chopped tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes are mashed.
  • Add prawns along with cocum, salt and water, cover and cook for 2-3 minutes.
  • Once the prawns get cooked and gravy thickens, add thick coconut milk and turn off the flame.
  • Serve hot with rice/chapatti.

7 comments:

  1. Ahh chemmeen curry looks soooo delicious last pic is literally droollll worthy.But chatty curry I didn't know u call it that way too :)

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    1. Thanx Meena....the entire process is done in an earthern pot(chatti)thats y its named so....actually I mentioned pan instead of chatti ....nw corrected :)

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  2. Wow soo yummy :-) Is curry straight from Thrissur??!! :-) Drooling!

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  3. Thanks Rekha..the curry is straight from Sharjah:)))))

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  4. any curry made in chatti just tastes out of the world, pakshe evide gasinte mele vekkunatha oru prashnam... adupathu vecha then more than that, alle??? this curry looks yummy...

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    1. very true Rafee..adupinte oru kuravundu....

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    2. Oh Rafiku aviduthe chudu pora ennu thonnunu ini tee kathikanda kurave ullu :)))

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