Raw plantain and prawn stir-fry |
I have already posted plantain stir-fry. I have added only prawns in this recipe.
Recipe summary
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Raw plantain and prawn stir-fry
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time:35 minutes
Serves: 10
1. Peel 2 raw plantains. Cut into ½ inch cubes and immerse the pieces in water as soon as you cut with salt to prevent discoloration.
2. Drain and boil them crunchy for 10 minutes with ½ a teaspoon of turmeric and ¼ salt. Cool and mash them by hand.
3. Wash 200 grams prawns with ½ teaspoon of turmeric and half a teaspoon of salt and boil in a medium saucepan for 10 minutes.
Drain and and cool. Shred the boiled pawns. You can use food processor.
4. Mix the plantain pieces and prawn together in a medium sized bowl. Mash them both to form a thick paste. Add ½ teaspoon chili powder, ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder and ½ teaspoon salt and mix well.
5. Add 300 grams shredded coconut. Set the mixture aside.
6. In a medium sized frying pan or a wok add 3 table spoon oil and heat it up. When the oil is hot add 2 onions chopped coarsely and reduce the heat to low. Fry for 10 minutes or until the onions are translucent.
7. Add 1 dry red chili broken into small pieces,1 green chili sliced into thin slices, 10 curry leaves chopped fine . Fry for 3 minutes. Add 1 inch ginger and 3 cloves garlic made into a paste.
8. Add the plantain, prawn and coconut mixture and stir briskly. Fry for about 10 minutes. Cook in slow fire. once or twice just cover the wok or pan for the spices to cook. Do not cover long just one or two minutes.
The stir-fry is ready. You can serve this with rice or bread. It is a very tasty dish that you can enjoy. This curry alone is enough to eat rice. It is large quantity as I made this curry for a dinner.
Raw plantain and prawn stir-fry is ready.
For
Raw plantain and prawn stir-fry
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time:35 minutes
Serves: 10
Raw Plantains |
1. Peel 2 raw plantains. Cut into ½ inch cubes and immerse the pieces in water as soon as you cut with salt to prevent discoloration.
2. Drain and boil them crunchy for 10 minutes with ½ a teaspoon of turmeric and ¼ salt. Cool and mash them by hand.
3. Wash 200 grams prawns with ½ teaspoon of turmeric and half a teaspoon of salt and boil in a medium saucepan for 10 minutes.
Drain and and cool. Shred the boiled pawns. You can use food processor.
Raw plantain and prawn stir-fry |
5. Add 300 grams shredded coconut. Set the mixture aside.
6. In a medium sized frying pan or a wok add 3 table spoon oil and heat it up. When the oil is hot add 2 onions chopped coarsely and reduce the heat to low. Fry for 10 minutes or until the onions are translucent.
7. Add 1 dry red chili broken into small pieces,1 green chili sliced into thin slices, 10 curry leaves chopped fine . Fry for 3 minutes. Add 1 inch ginger and 3 cloves garlic made into a paste.
8. Add the plantain, prawn and coconut mixture and stir briskly. Fry for about 10 minutes. Cook in slow fire. once or twice just cover the wok or pan for the spices to cook. Do not cover long just one or two minutes.
The stir-fry is ready. You can serve this with rice or bread. It is a very tasty dish that you can enjoy. This curry alone is enough to eat rice. It is large quantity as I made this curry for a dinner.
Raw plantain and prawn stir-fry is ready.
Recipe follows in detail with pictures.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time:35 minutes
Serves: 10
Ingredients:
Main
2 raw (unripe) plantains
200 grams prawns
300 grams shredded coconut
Others
2 onions chopped coarsely
1 green chili sliced into thin slices
10 curry leaves chopped into small pieces.
3 cloves garlic
1 inch ginger
3 table spoon vegetable oil
½ teaspoon salt
Spices
1½ teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon chili powder
1 dry red chili broken into small pieces
Preparation
Peel the plantain. You can peel with a potato peeler. As plantain peel is highly fibrous, often this will clog the potato peeler. You can also peel with a sharp knife.
Cut into ½ inch cubes.
Sliced plantain |
Once you have cut all the plantains, boil them for 10 minutes in a medium sauce pan with ½ a teaspoon of turmeric and ¼ salt.
Sliced plantain being boiled with salt and turmeric powder |
Boiled plantain pieces |
Mashed boiled plantain |
Wash the prawns. Add ½ teaspoon of turmeric and half a teaspoon of salt and boil in a medium saucepan for 10 minutes.
Prawn Washed and cleaned |
Mixed mashed plantain and shredded prawn |
Set the mixture aside.
Prawn,plantain,and coconut mixed with spices |
Method
In a medium sized frying pan or a wok add the oil and heat it up. When the oil is hot add the onions and sliced dry red chili pieces and reduce the heat to low. Fry for 10 minutes or until the onions are translucent. Add green chili and curry leaves. Fry for 3 minutes. Add garlic ginger paste.
Stir frying being done |
The stir-fry is ready. You can serve this with rice or bread. It is a very tasty dish that you can enjoy. This curry alone is enough to eat rice. It is large quantity as I made this curry for a dinner.
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