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Prawn fry

Prawn fry is a favorite for many in Non-Veg side dishes. One of the main reason is that, Prawn fry can be made in such a way that, this one dish will serve as main dish as well as side dish.

Let us take a look at the recipe of the delicious Prawn fry.

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Ingredients
To fry
Preparation
1

Cleaning process of Prawns is a time consuming one. If you are in India, typically cleaning process is done when you buy. You should get it cleaned properly and carefully by instructing the person to remove the dark black/brown thread inside the prawns that starts from head to tail.

Photo of cleaned Prawn/Shrimp:
prawns-cleaned

Cut the onions
Photo of cut onions:
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2

Heat oil in a pan.
Once oil is hot, start frying the onion.
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3

In 2 min, add garlic and curry leaves.
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Continue frying until the onions turn brown.
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4

Add masala powders mentioned in the ingredients section. Continue frying for about 2-3 min.
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5

Add Shrimp (from Step 1). Mix and keep frying.
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6

Add salt, mix and continue frying.
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7

Let the shrimp fry cook in medium to low flame for about 10 min. Every now and then turn the content over to ensure one side does not get burnt.
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8

Shrimp fry / Prawn fry is ready to be served.
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Popular main dish for Prawn fry:

Prawn fry itself can be considered as a main dish. The best part of Prawn fry made in Tamil Nadu style or South Indian style is that, the dish is a thick gravy - we call it masala. You can simply add hot steamed rice, mix and eat.

Typically what we do is, once the dish is ready, we transfer the dish to a bowl leaving a little bit of masala/gravy in the container. On this, we will add hot stamed rice and mix it with a little heat (This is like making a fried rice). This is super delicious prawn dish.

Vegetarian main dish:
Sambar, Kuruma, Rasam
Shrimp fry goes well with almost all main dishes.

Non-Vegetarian main dish:
Chicken kuruma, Mutton Kuruma

Other dishes with Prawns as main ingredient:
Prawan kuzhambu, Popcorn shrimp

Other names/spelling variations of Prawn fry:
Shrimp fry, Shrimp varuval, Prawns varuval, Eral varuval, Era varuval, Era fry, Era masala, Prawn masala, Shrimp masala, Prawns masala

Leftover tips:
If Shrimp/Prawn fry made for lunch is left over, we can use it as stuffing for Dosa during dinner. This you can never get in a restaurant. Only home cooking can give you this great combination. Also goes well with Idly.


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