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| Chingri Fry |
What a way to restart a blog that has been lying idle for over a month.
Most of the morning was spent on riding on the streets which were burning in
the scorching heat and then as I sit here, with a chilled bottle of beer and a
plate of spicy fried maggi just prepared, thinking about how to really start
the post, the cloud cover ups the ante. The sun is warming up, but today I feel
the clouds are going to win. The air has become a little cooler and its just
the way that precedes a Kal Boisakhi. A had experimented quite a bit in the
past months and the results are coming along!
From my diaries:
“The prawns that I had bought from the market were ageing in the
refrigerator.They havent aged much though – only a couple of days – but I love
things fresher.That is when this idea was born. Why not fry prawns in panch
phoron,some onion, chopped ginger and garlic and some fiery green
chilies.”
It ended up being a spicy starter, which, you can enjoy with your drinks.
Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 7-10 mins.
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Ingredients:
- Bagda Chingri: 6-8.Cleaned
and de-veined.Coat the prawns with salt and turmeric powder. - Onion: 1 medium sized(50 gms)
- Ginger: A quarter of an
inch.Finely chopped - Garlic: 2 cloves.Finely chopped
- Fiery Green Chilies:
6-8.Finely Chopped. - Panch Phoron:1.5 tsp
- Black Pepper:5-6.Crushed.
- Cumin Seeds: 1 tsp
- Sugar: 1 tsp
- Salt: To taste
- Mustard Oil: 3 tbsp for
initially frying the prawns, 2 tbsp for the remaining portion.
Powdered Spices:
- Coriander Powder:1 tsp
- Dry Red Chili Powder:0.5 tsp.
- Turmeric Powder:1.5 tsp to
coat the prawns.
Procedure:
- Heat 3 tbsp of mustard oil in
a kadai. - Once the oil gets nice and
hot, add the prawns. - Under medium heat, fry the
prawns for 3-4 mins,and let them rest on a tissue paper. - Add 2 tbsp of mustard oil to
the oil remaining in the kadai. - Once the oil gets hot, add
the panch phoron, cumin seeds and black pepper. - Let the fragnance of the
smell evolve, then add the sliced green chilies and onion pieces. - Sprinkle the sugar and some
amount of salt into it. - Wait till the colour of the
onion turns reddish brown. - Then add the finely chopped
ginger and garlic pieces. - Lightly stir for a couple of
mins. - Then add the dry red chili
powder, coriander powder - Stir fry for two more
minutes. - Then add the fried prawns.
- Under low heat fry the prawns
for 6-8 mins, until it blends with the rest of the mixture properly.Add
salt if required.
Serve with drinks.
Preferably!
