This Chemmeen/Konchu fry is delicious served as an appetizer or as a side dish with rice.
This spicy dish is made with cocum, garlic, ginger, green chilies, and pepper. It’s a quick and easy way to make chemmeen roast/fry. You can serve it with rice, chapati, appam, etc.
Kerala Style Prawn Roast | Easy Chemmeen Roast
Chemmeen Ularthiyathu is a spicy and delicious seafood dish that is very common in Kerala (South India), which has a lot of coastlines. It has a unique taste from all spices and especially the tangy flavor from kudampuli.
Equipment
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Ingredients
Marinate Prawns
- 500 gms Shrimp
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1½ teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Prepare Gravy Base For Prawns
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato
- 1 green chili
- 1 tablespoon ginger and garlic paste
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1½ tsp Coriander powder 1 tbsp
- 1 tsp Garam masala powder -
- 2 teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder
- curry leaves
- 5 tbsp Oil
- salt as needed
- 1/4 cup Hot Water
Instructions
- Marinate Prawns
- Wash and clean the shrimp.
- Add 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 teaspoon red chili powder, 1 tsp ginger and garlic paste, salt to Shrimp and mix them very well. Set aside for 30 minutes.
- Heat 4-5 tablespoon oil in a pan and fry the prawns. Do not over fry, about 3-4 minutes.
- Make the Gravy base for Prawn
- Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan. Add ginger-garlic paste. Saute until ginger garlic paste is light brown and the raw smell is gone
- Add sliced onion, green chili, salt mix it well then add curry leaves. Saute onion until it is translucent
- Add tomato and cover with a lid, cook until tomato becomes soft.
- Add all the spice powders ( turmeric, coriander, Kashmiri red chili powder). Fry for 2-3 mins till the raw smell is gone and oil starts separating.
- Add fried prawns and mix well.
- Add 1/4 cup water. Adjust salt. Mix Cover and cook low flame for around 5 mins.
- Remove the lid, boil to reduce the excess gravy. Let it rest for half an hour for the flavor to get absorbed into prawns.
- you can serve with rice, chapati, appam, etc.
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