Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, prawn pollichathu (prawn cooked in plantain leaf). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Prawn Pollichathu is another one of Malabar's iconic prawn recipes that combine prawns and curry. Not only are prawns the centerpiece of this but the spices also serve as excellent complements. The curry is smooth and has a rich creaminess of its own.
Prawn Pollichathu (Prawn cooked in Plantain leaf) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Prawn Pollichathu (Prawn cooked in Plantain leaf) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have prawn pollichathu (prawn cooked in plantain leaf) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn Pollichathu (Prawn cooked in Plantain leaf):
- Make ready 500 gm Prawns
- Get 1 tsp chilli powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Turmeric
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Take 1 tsp cumin powder
- Take 1 tsp Garam Masala
- Make ready to taste salt
- Take 1 big tomato
- Take 1 big onion sliced
- Make ready ginger garlic crushed
- Get Coconut oil
- Prepare 1/4 Cup coconut thick milk
- Take Pepper Powder
- Get Handful curry leaves
- Make ready Leaf Plantain
Then add coconut milk to it and cook until the gravy reduces to semi dry consistency. Prawns cooked with crushed shallots, spices and curry leaves in coconut oil. Once oil starts appearing add chopped tomatoes, curry leaves and salt. Karimeen Pollichathu is a yummy recipe in which fish is cooked along with coconut milk.
Steps to make Prawn Pollichathu (Prawn cooked in Plantain leaf):
- First in a bowl add the prawns add all spices turmeric,1/2 tsp chilli powder,1/2 tsp Coriander powder,salt to taste, cumin powder,garam masala 1/2 tsp
- In a pan add coconut oil add little curry leaf and then add prawns and cook half done and remove.
- In same pan add some more oily then add onion sauté well add ginger-garlic crushed cook till raw smell goes. Then add all the dry spices cook while and add tomato cook well.
- Now add the prawns and mix well till all the spices gets into it cook for while it should look thick gravy now add coconut milk and adjust salt. Cook till the milk is drained completely.
- Once done add some more curry leaves and cover and remove from heat. Once it’s cool down a bit Clean the plantain leaf and add the prawns masala to it wrap it really well.
- In a pan add some oil put this plantain leaf in low flame and cook both side till color change and it’s done.
How to make Karimeen Pollichathu We had this Karimeen Pollichathu (pan grilled pearl spot in banana leaves) and special prawns recipe of Kadaloram resort at Cherai Beach. But there in Kadaloram, prawns were cooked in coconut milk. Meen Pollichathu - Fish cooked in banana leaves. Anthony Bourdain during his trip to Kerala compared the technique of cooking the fish in banana leaf to the classic french technique of fish en papillote (fish steamed in parchment pouches). Prawn and lobster fishing in Singapore.
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