Chettinad Prawn Curry Recipe with step by step pictures. This Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu Recipe made with Prawns and whole Garam masala.
Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu
Prawn is hubby's favorite. Since many of my viewers have told me that i don't have much prawn recipes in my blog. I have started cooking with them and posting here.This is a simple prawn curry with no coconut.
This one is a chetinad style curry and goes extremely well with rice. idli or dosa..
Ingredients for Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu
- Prawns - 500 grams cleanedFor Roasting & Grinding:
- Coriander Seeds / Malli - 1 tbsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 2 to 4
- Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf- 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Ajwain / Omam / Carom Seeds - ½ tsp
- Cinnamon Stick / Pattai - 2 cm piece
- Black Pepper - 1 tsp
- Cloves / Krambu - 4
- Cardamom / Yalakai - 4
- Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam / Methi - ¼ tsp
- Mace - 1
- Poppy Seeds/ Khus Khus / Kasa Kasa - 1 tbsp
For Curry:
- Oil - ¼ cup
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Kaya Podi / Hing - ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves a handful
- Shallots / Sambar Onion - 20 chopped finely
- Tomatoes - 2 large chopped finely
- Green Chilli - 2
- Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder - 2 tsp
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
- Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Tamarind Pulp - 1 tbsp or to taste
- Water as needed
Hope you will try this out and let me know how it turned out for you..
How to make Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu
- Clean prawns, wash them well and set aside.Take all roasting spices in a heavy bottom pan and toast them till golden. Cool them down and take them in a blender.
- Powder them and set aside.Now in the same pan, add oil and heat it up. Add in mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Add in shallots and saute till golden. In goes tomatoes and green chillies. Cook that down till it gets mushy.
- Add in spice powders and the ground masala. Mix well. Add salt and tamarind pulp to taste.
- Pour enough water to make a gravy. Simmer this till oil separates
- Now add in prawns and mix well. Simmer for 10 mins or so.
- Serve.
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Eral Kuzhambu Recipe | Chettinad Prawn Curry Recipe
Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu Recipe with step by step picure. This is made with Prawns and whole Garam masala
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Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 180kcal
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Kaduku
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida / Kaya Podi / Hing
- Curry leaves a handful
- 20 Shallots / Sambar Onion chopped finely
- 2 large Tomatoes chopped finely
- 2 Green Chilli
- 1 tsp Chilli Powder
- 2 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Kashmiri Chilli Powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp Tamarind Pulp
- Water as needed
- 500 grams Prawn
Instructions
- Clean prawns, wash them well and set aside.Take all roasting spices in a heavy bottom pan and toast them till golden. Cool them down and take them in a blender. Powder them and set aside.Now in the same pan, add oil and heat it up. Add in mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Add in shallots and saute till golden. Add in tomatoes and green chillies. Cook that down till it gets mushy.
- Add in spice powders and the ground masala. Mix well. Add salt and tamarind pulp to taste.
- Add enough water to make a gravy. Simmer this till oil separates
- Now add in prawns and mix well. Simmer for 10 mins or so.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1servings | Calories: 180kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.04g | Cholesterol: 134mg | Sodium: 164mg | Potassium: 410mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 704IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 69mg | Iron: 1mg
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Chettinad Prawn Curry Recipe step by step picture
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| Clean prawns and set aside |
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| take your roasting spices |
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| take them in a dry pan |
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| toast them well |
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| take them in a blender and powder them |
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| set aside |
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| heat oil and crackl mustard |
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| add asafoetida |
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| add curry leaves |
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| chopped shallots |
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| cook till golden |
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| add tomatoes |
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| green chillies |
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| cook that down |
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| add spice powders |
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| mix that through |
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| add the ground masala |
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| along with tamarind water |
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| cook for few min |
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| add salt |
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| mix that through |
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| add water |
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| bring it to a boil |
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| simmer till oil separates |
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| add prawns |
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| simmer for a while |
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| simmer for a while |
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| Serve |
Torviewtoronto
prawn dish looks delicious wonderful side dish
Ramya
Hi Aarthi, your chettinad eral came out very well yesterday for Sunday lunch. Thank you for ur recipe. I just surf usually all food blogs but won’t try lot. But yesterday I tried it for prawn. My husband liked it much. Continue ur Super blogging.
malar
hi aarthi,i tried this dish today it came out very well .thank you☺️
Bhavani
Hi Aarthi tried the prawn recipe and it came out very well even though i didnt have few ingredient ... Thank you... Keep rocking
SHALINI
The eral curry looks absolutely delicious!
Gayathri suresh
Superb sis by Gayathri suresh
Debbie
This is one of the best curries I've ever had, tasty and hot, thank you for my new favourite recipe.
lakshmi
i tried your recipe yesterday and it came out very spicy and i loved the taste. this is my first time on prawn as im not into much of sea food . your recipe helped me to overcome my hesitance on sea food. thanks alot. i will try other recipes as well. keep up your wonderful journey.....
Devi
My go-to recipe for prawn kulambu!
Benedict
I just whipped it up, and it turned out great! But hey, why didn’t you include ginger and garlic? I grew up in a world where non-veg food without ginger-garlic paste is practically a crime. Should I storm the gates of this culinary fortress and embrace the change? 😄
Aarthi
It depends on each recipe. Some recipe does't need ginger and garlic. but adding ginger and garlic is not an issue as well.