Prawns Fry

( Mom's recipe)

Ingredients for the paste:

• 2 cup dry red chili
• 50 grams ginger
• 50 grams garlic
• 1 lime size tamarind

 Method for the paste: 

Boil all the ingredients in 1 cup of water.

Grind with salt to a fine paste.

One can preserve this paste for few days in the refrigerator.

For the fry:

1. 2 tbsp of chili paste
2. 250 grams of prawns de veined and cleaned
3. a spring of curry leaves

Method:

Marinate the prawns with chili paste and refrigerate for one hour.
In a kadai heat oil , add curry leaves and 1/2 tsp of crushed garlic.
Then add prawns , cook n fry till it becomes dry.