Prawn Curry

Ingredients

• Immerse a soup-plateful of small prawns
• boiling salted water
• mix in two tablespoonfuls of curry powder
• add a green chillie
• a clove of garlic
• a little allspice
• sliced ginger

Method

1. 1

   Shell, head, and tail the prawns, then put them in a stewpan with weak tamarind water to cover.

2. 2

   Mix in curry powder, chillie, garlic, allspice, and ginger.

3. 3

   Stir and let stand for half an hour.

4. 4

   In another pan, brown a sliced onion, add the prawn mixture, and boil gently for half an hour before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anglo-Indian cookery at home (1895) by Henrietta A. Hervey, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Prawn Curry. — Immerse a soup-[dateful of small prawns into boiling salted water ; shell, head, and tail them, put into a stewpan, and add weak tamarind water sufficient to cover; then mix in two tablespoonfuls of curry powder, and add a green chillie, a clove of garlic, a little allspice, and sliced ginger

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