Prawn Stir fry recipe, super easy to make with minimal ingredients. Before moving on to the recipe, Do you know, that the Prawns/Shrimps can swim backwards? I could see your raising eyebrows. It is true, as it does not have fins like other fishes. Coming to this recipe of Prawn Stir fry, it is easy and can me made in jiffy. It is hot and dry, best to be served as a side dish for rice or as an appetizer.
Prawns belongs to Shrimp family. These verities are available in India. These have large heads which are equivalent to their body. While cleaning watch out their sharp heads and the tails. Always devein them, as it does not taste good, and also it may hurt your stomach.
Have you checked other prawn/shrimp recipes like, Chettinad shrimp sukka, Mango shrimp, Shrimp fry
It is hectic task, to peal, clean and devein prawns. My family strongly believes that the small verity of prawns tastes good for the recipes. But the burden of cleaning absolutely fall on our shoulders. Do you wonder why I am exaggerating this cleaning task? yeah, Its a true statement of mine, deveining the smaller verities definitely a tougher job.
The tougher jobs, undoubtedly yields better results. All the pain of cleaning and deveining, gets vanishes when we get appreciations. I love to have this stir fry along with my Sambar rice. Prawns gets cooked easily, so saute them in medium flame. Very high flame cooking, makes the outer skin to be very tougher.
If you cannot bear the heat of the chili powder, substitute half of the amount with coriander powder.
How to make Prawn Stir fry:
1. Carefully remove the outer skin, head, vein from the prawns. Clean, wash and devein them.
2. Heat oil in the pan, add fennel seeds. Once the fennel seeds slightly changes its color, add chopped onion and chopped garlic. In the medium flame, continue saute them till onion turns soft.
3. Add prawns, salt and chili powder. In the medium flame, continue cooking by stirring them occasionally. If they gets sticks at the bottom of the pan, then add another tsp of cooking oil, to ease the frying. Cook it till, prawns becomes stiffer and little crispy.
4. Remove it from the fire and transfer it to the serving bowl.
Serving with Rasam would be the best option I have seen so far.
Prawn Stir fry recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Prawns
- 1/4 Cup Onion Chopped
- 1 tbsp Garlic Chopped
- 2 tsp Fennel Seeds
- 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt or as required
- 3 tbsp Cooking oil
Instructions
- Carefully remove the outer skin, head, vein from the prawns. Clean, wash and devein them.
- Heat oil in the pan, add fennel seeds. Once the fennel seeds slightly changes its color, add chopped onion and chopped garlic. In the medium flame, continue saute them till onion turns soft.
- Add prawns, salt and chili powder. In the medium flame, continue cooking by stirring them occasionally. If they gets sticks at the bottom of the pan, then add another tsp of cooking oil, to ease the frying. Cook it till, prawns becomes stiffer and little crispy.
- Remove it from the fire and transfer it to the serving bowl.
Nutrition
Serving Suggestions:
Serve along with Sambar rice, Rasam Rice or as appetizer.
Tips and Variations Prawn Stir Fry:
1. Onion can also be omitted in this recipe.
2. Care need to be taken while adding salt to the dish, as overpowering salt can destroy the prawns.
3. If you are making this recipe with the shrimps, do not wait it to become crispier. Remove from the fire, once they gets cooked.Have you checked another chicken recipe of Madurai.
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Usha
April 28, 2014 at 12:45 amSuja, I didn't know prawns can swim backwards. You have beautifully placed stir fried prawns in a bowl, looks delicious. It is very catchy image. Today afternoon I made prawn curry in coconut sauce. Addition of fennel seeds is new to me..I will try sometime.