Ingredients:

• 1 big – raw Plantain (chopped into big pieces)
• 1/2 kg – Prawn
• 2 tsp – Red Chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 1 lemon-sized ball of Tamarind pulp
• 2 cups – water
• Salt
• To grind:
• 1/2 – grated Coconut
• 1/4 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp – Red Chilli powder
• 4 – Shallots
• 3-4 – Garlic
• 1/2 tsp – pepper Corns
• 1 tsp – ginger, chopped
• 1 tbsp – oil
• To temper:
• 1 tbsp – oil
• 3 – dry chillies
• 1/2 tsp – mustard
• 2 – Shallots
• 2 sprigs – Curry leaves

Method:

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil and fry coconut, shallots, garlic and ginger, pepper, turmeric, chilly powder.
2. When the colour changes, remove from heat, cool and grind to a fine paste.
3. To the cleaned prawns, add chopped plantain, chilly powder, turmeric powder, tamarind, salt and 2 cups of water and cook in a pan.
4. Once the prawn and plantain are cooked well and quite dry, add in the ground masala and some more water if required.
5. Cook till the curry is done.
6. In a kadai, splutter mustard, chilly, shallots and curry leaves and season the prepared curry.

Recipe courtesy of Friends cookys