Prawn Ghee Roast

Kundapur style

Ghee Roast is fiery red, tangy and spicy with a flavor of ghee roasted spices. The advantage of creating traditional dishes at home, is you can adjust the recipe to suit your taste to get maximum satisfaction from the meal. Our spice level is always medium spicy, hence the Prawn Ghee Roast does not have the usual number of chillies.  Secondly, Baydagi and Kashmiri chillies are both used, but I have used only Kashmiri as I did not have Baydagi chillies. You may increase the chillies according to your taste.

P.S.: Any leftover ghee roast (if at all any remains of this delicious dishes) can be reinvented the next day.  Just add some water when re-heating to make a curry and you have a Kundapur Curry to go with freshly steamed rice!

Ingredients

• 1 Cup prawns (large), shelled
• 1 tsp. Kashmiri chilli powder
• 2 tbsp. yogurt
• 1tsp. tamarind paste
• Salt
• 4 tsp. brown (fried) onion paste*
• 1 tbsp. yogurt for fried onion paste
• 6 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1 tbsp. coconut oil
• 2 tbsp. ghee
• 1 to 2 sprigs curry leaves
  

To make Kundapur masala (Roast and grind to a powder)

• 4 to 6 Kashmiri chillis
• 1 tbsp. coriander seeds
• ½ tsp. cumin seeds
• ¼ tsp. fenugreek seeds
• ¼ tsp. pepper corns
• 4 flakes garlic
• OR use 3 tsp. ready Kundapur masala instead of above

       Method

1. Dry roast the spices from Kashmiri chillies to garlic, cool and grind to a powder. Your ‘Kundapur masala’ is ready.
2. *To make fried onion paste : Slice two onions and fry in oil on medium heat till dark brown, cool and grind to a paste with a tbsp. of yogurt.
3. Clean, shell and devein the prawns. 
4. Wash, squeeze out all the water. 
5. Combine tamarind paste, yogurt, salt and kundapur masala and apply to the prawns and mix well.  Marinate for 15 to 30 minutes. 
6. Take a shallow pan, add 1 tbsp. of coconut oil, and fry the chopped garlic for a minute. 
7. Add the brown onion paste and sauté for a minute. 
8. Add the prawns with the marinade and stir fry on high flame till the prawns change colour. 

P.S.: I have cooked a larger quantity in the video, hence it is much more than the recipe quantities.