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Prawn tikka masala

Hello  friends , its great to be back home and back to blogging after a wonderful five day trip . I would soon be putting up some pictures of my trip to Bhubneshwar, Puri and Konark , but I am not ready with an interesting writeup as yet. Till then heres what I cooked for dinner today for my family.

   This is my version of the simplest prawn tikka masala and as usual the spices and ingredients would definetely be in your kitchen right now. Here goes the recipe….

Ingredients

1.   Two cups deveined and cleaned prawns ( I wash them in water with a half a teaspoon of turmeric powder)

2.   Two level tablespoons of ginger garlic paste ( you could even one tablespoon  here)

3.   1 ½ teaspoon of kashmiri red chilli powder ( my son found it a little too spicy to his liking, so I guess you could use just one teaspoon here)

4.   ½ teaspoon turmeric

5.   ½ teaspoon garam masala

6.   1 teaspoon chat masala

7.    Salt to taste or one teaspoon only

8.   One tablespoon oil for marination and about five tablespoons for the final cooking.

Method

1.  Mix all the ingredients including one tablespoon oil and marinate the prawns for atleast half an hour.

2.   Take the oil in a heavy bottomed pan and put the prawns in it and cook covered on low flame for about five to seven minutes.

3.   Take the cover off and on a medium flame, stir fry and cook the prawns till the masala or the marination dries up and the prawns are cooked. You will have to keep stirring in between.

4.   I don’t think there would be any need to add any water but if you feel its required just sprinkle some.

5.  Serve hot with wedges of onions.