Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind
Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken and prawn curry with tamarind. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken and prawn curry with tamarind using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind:
  1. Make ready 6 chicken breasts, cubed
  2. Get 1 kg large prawns, shelled and deveined
  3. Take 3 tbsp oil - I use sunflower oil when making a curry
  4. Prepare 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  5. Get 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  6. Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
  7. Make ready 6 whole peppercorns
  8. Make ready 4 cloves
  9. Take 6 curry leaves
  10. Get 1 bay leaf
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp (heaped) ginger, garlic, chilli paste
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp curry powder (more can be added as per your preference)
  13. Get 1/2 tsp tumeric powder (hurdee/ haldi)
  14. Make ready 3 large tomatoes, grated (discard skins)
  15. Make ready 1 tbsp corriander powder
  16. Take 1 cup tamarind "sauce" about 15 - 20 grms dissolved in a cup of warm water then strained & discarded the seeds & pulp. May be substited with about a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Note: tamarind gives an amazing flavour and thickens the gravy
  17. Take 1 bunch fresh corriander, chopped

The combination of coconut milk and tamarind is. Prawn curry in under half an hour, even when you make your own spice paste. Add tamarind and coconut milk for flavour and serve with rice and chapatis. Prawn and tamarind curry (Chemmeen vevichathu).

Instructions to make Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind:
  1. Slightly heat oil in a pan then add in the cumin, mustard seeds, cloves, peppercorns and onion.
  2. Sautè until onion changes colour to a light golden brown.
  3. Add in curry leaves and bay leaf.
  4. Mix in ginger, garlic and chilli paste. Followed by curry powder and tumeric powder.
  5. Add grated tomato and allow to cook through.
  6. Mix in the corriander powder.
  7. Once cooked, add in tamarind sauce and allow to simmer for a few moments.
  8. Mix in chopped corriander.
  9. Place cubed chicken into gravy. When almost done, add in the prawns and allow to cook through.
  10. Serve with basmati or other rice of choice.

Bring the flavours of south India to your kitchen with this mouth-watering fish curry. For the curry, heat the oil in a large pan over a medium heat. Add the mustard seeds and cook until you hear them pop, then add the fenugreek seeds and shallots. Prawn and tamarind curry (Chemmeen vevichathu). Bring the flavours of south India to your kitchen with this mouth-watering fish curry.

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