Prawns Curry Kapitan Delicious Recipes

This is a mild curry dish but is rich with coconut milk and spices. Is easy and fast to cook and goes really well with white rice.

Blended ingredients :

3 garlic
3 shallots
3 buah keras (can replaced with almonds)
2" fresh tumeric (can replaced with 1 tbsp of tumeric powder)
1" fresh ginger
2 red chilis
1 stalk of lemon grass

Blend the above ingredients with some water into a paste.

Ingredients :

1 pound of prawns
2 tomatoes - quartered
6 curry leaves
1 tbsp of curry powder
1 cup of coconut milk
juice of half lemon
1 tsp of sugar
salt and pepper to taste

1) Put some oil into the frying pan and stir-fry the kapitan paste, curry powder and curry leaves for a few mintues or until fragrant.
2) Add in prawns and stir fry for 1 min and then add in the coconut milk.
3) Cook for 2 mintues and then add in the tomatoes, lemon juice, sugar salt and pepper to taste.
4) Cook for another 3 mintues and dish out and served with warm rice.

Note : You can used this paste to cook with chicken too but it will take longer to cook. You can add more coconut milk this dish if you want more gravy.