Recipe: Delicious Sri Lankan Coconut Prawn Curry

Swaadisht Nuskha


Sri Lankan Coconut Prawn Curry. This Sri Lankan curry has similar spices to Indian curries, but the creaminess of a Thai curry - the best of both worlds! This rich, fragrant curry sauce is great with prawns, but you could easily use chicken instead. It's worth hunting out tamarind puree for this Sri Lankan curry.

Sri Lankan Coconut Prawn Curry Spicy prawn curry in Sri Lankan style is one of the delicious dishes in Sri Lanka. People in Sri Lankan love to make shrimp curry recipe very often as they. The trick to making perfect Sri Lankan prawn curry (or any other shrimp curry) is to add the prawns/shrimp in at the very last minute, and give them just long enough to cook perfectly. You can have Sri Lankan Coconut Prawn Curry using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sri Lankan Coconut Prawn Curry

  1. You need 1 of large onion.
  2. You need 6 cloves of garlic.
  3. Prepare 5 cm of ginger.
  4. You need 5 cm of galangal.
  5. It's 1 of lemongrass.
  6. Prepare 1 tablespoon of hot madras curry powder.
  7. It's 1 tablespoon of crushed chillies.
  8. You need 1 tablespoon of tamarind paste.
  9. It's 150 g of raw king prawns.
  10. It's 1 tablespoon of coriander.
  11. You need 1 of large pepper.

This way they'll be tender and juicy, and perfectly flavorful while being coated with that luscious thick. Season with sugar and salt to taste. This recipe may sound exotic, but it's pretty straightforward and quick. You might even fire it up on a weeknight.

Sri Lankan Coconut Prawn Curry step by step

  1. Make a paste with the garlic, ginger, lemongrass, tamarind paste, curry powder, crushed chillies, onion and galangal. Chuck it all in a blender and blitz it until you have a smooth paste..
  2. Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to a large pan, and fry the spice paste..
  3. After cooking the spices for a couple of minutes, add the prawns and cook until pink..
  4. Add coconut milk to the spice paste, bring to the boil, add lime leaves and green peppers, then let simmer for 10 minutes..
  5. Remove lime leaves, garnish with coriander and serve with rice..

But first, you should know what you're in for. Curry is kind of a catch-all term. It can refer to curry powder, a dry spiced dish, or a spicy sauce. Recipe for traditional Sri Lankan chicken curry. Made with homemade curry masala powder.