Simple Chingri Malai curry

Chingri malai curry is one of my favorite dish.I like spicy food, so I made changes to traditional version to make it spicy. This is a simpler version which uses ready made coconut milk as the coconut I bought turned out spoilt. I usually make the coconut milk myself and that recipe is slightly different than this.

Chingri Malai curry

Ingredients :
40 Small Prawns

1 Medium Onion

1 Bay leaf

1 Inch Dalchini

4-5 Cloves

10 Pepper corns

5 Green Chillies
a pinch of turmeric Powder

1 Tsp Ginger Garlic paste
1/2 Tsp Jeera Powder

1 Tsp Dhania Powder
1 Tsp Red Chilli Powder
Salt to taste

400 ml canned Coconut milk

1/2 Cup water

2 Tbsp OIL

1 Tbsp Ghee

Preparation

Take a pan Saute the onions to take out the rawness and grind into paste along with 3 Green chillies.

Now add oil to the pan , add turmeric and slightly fry the prawns. Take them out.

In the same oil put bay leaf, cloves, peppercorns,dalchini and saute for a while.Put the onion chilli paste, remaining 2 whole chillies, Ginger Garlic paste,Jeera powder,Red chilli powder , Dhaniya powder and saute them until it starts leaving oil. Add little water if it sticks to pan.

Pour the coconut milk and water and let it simmer on slow flame for about ten minutes until it starts to leave oil on the sides. Now add fried prawns and let it simmer for another 5 minutes.

 Before switching of the gas, add 1 Tbsp of ghee. Serve with hot rice.