• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Yummy Tummy

Food that makes your tummy happy!

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Recipe Index
  • Categories
  • Advertisers
  • On Media
  • Contact
  • Privacy
You are here: Home / Chettinaad / Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu Recipe / Chettinad Prawn Curry Recipe

Chettinad Eral Kuzhambu Recipe / Chettinad Prawn Curry Recipe

April 4, 2016 By Aarthi 8 Comments

share this
Share

Prawn is hubby’s favorite. Since many of my viewers have told me that i dont 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.

Similar Recipes,
Spicy Prawn Roast
Prawn Masala
Prawns with Drumstick Leaves

Prawn Fried Rice
Grilled Prawns
This one is a chetinad style curry and goes extremely well with rice. idli or dosa..
Hope you will try this out and let me know how it turned out for you..
Preparation Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 45 mins
Serves: 4 to 6

Ingredients:
Prawns – 500 grams cleanedFor Roasting & Grinding:
Coriander Seeds / Malli – 1 tblspn
Dry Red Chilli – 2 to 4
Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf- 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
Ajwain / Omam / Carom Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon Stick / Pattai – 2 cm piece
Black Pepper – 1 tsp
Cloves / Krambu – 4
Cardamom / Yalakai – 4
Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam / Methi – 1/4 tsp
Mace – 1
Poppy Seeds/ Khus Khus / Kasa Kasa – 1 tblspn


For Curry:
Oil – 1/4 cup
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
Asafoetida / Kaya Podi / Hing – 1/4 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 tblspn or to taste
Water as needed

Method:

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.

Pictorial:
Clean prawns and set aside
take your roasting spices
take them in a dry pan
toast them well
take them in a blender and powder them
set aside
heat oil and crackl mustard
add asafoetida
add curry leaves
add chopped shallots
cook till golden
add tomatoes
green chillies
cook that down
add spice powders
mix that through
add the ground masala
along with tamarind water
cook for few min
add salt
mix that through
add water
bring it to a boil
simmer till oil separates
add prawns
simmer for a while
simmer for a while
Serve
share this
Share

Filed Under: Chettinaad, Kulambu, Non Veg, Prawn Recipes, Recent Recipes

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

Previous Post: « Dragon Fruit Juice Recipe
Next Post: Kothu Mutton Recipe -Kothu Kari Recipe – Shredded Mutton Recipes »

Reader Interactions

Share

Comments

  1. Torviewtoronto

    April 4, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    prawn dish looks delicious wonderful side dish

    Reply
  2. Ramya

    August 20, 2018 at 5:20 am

    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.

    Reply
  3. malar

    October 7, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    hi aarthi,i tried this dish today it came out very well .thank you☺️

    Reply
  4. Bhavani

    November 8, 2018 at 2:16 am

    Hi Aarthi tried the prawn recipe and it came out very well even though i didnt have few ingredient … Thank you… Keep rocking

    Reply
  5. SHALINI

    January 21, 2019 at 7:51 am

    The eral curry looks absolutely delicious!

    Reply
  6. Gayathri suresh

    August 3, 2019 at 9:14 am

    Superb sis by Gayathri suresh

    Reply
  7. Debbie

    September 9, 2019 at 11:45 am

    This is one of the best curries I’ve ever had, tasty and hot, thank you for my new favourite recipe.

    Reply
  8. lakshmi

    July 18, 2020 at 11:25 am

    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…..

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Search here

WELCOME!
Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours! More About Me…

Recipe Posts on Yummy Tummy

  • Blender Chocolate Mousse Recipe
  • Roasted Garlic & Tomato Chutney
  • Hidden Chocolate Heart Cake
  • Strawberry Jelly Cupcakes
  • Aloo Tamatar Recipe

YUMMY TUMMY FAVORITES

Search Recipes by Categories

Archives

TRENDING VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7Punwig-o

PICK YOUR FAVORITE

Oatmeal Recipes

Oats & Cornflakes Ladoo / Oats Cornflakes Ladoo with Dates & Sultanas

Oats Chapati Recipe – Oats Roti Recipe

Oatmeal Cereal for Babies – Oatmeal Ceralac Recipe & MyOrganicFormula.com Review

Fruits & Nuts Oatmeal Recipe

Footer