Prawn Thooku – Easy Prawn Thokku – Spicy Dry prawn Thooku recipe – Shrimp thokku recipe – Eral thokku recipe – Spicy dry masala with small prawns, perfect side for any south indian meal.
CHETTINAD ERAL MASALA PRAWN MOILEE PRAWN BIRYANI
Prawn Thokku
Ingredients
Ingredients - to marinate
- 30 small Prawns
- 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon Red Chilli powder hot / spicy
- 1/2 teaspoon Coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
Ingredients - to saute
- 2 tablespoon Oil
- 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon Fennel seeds
- 5 each Curry leaves
- 1 cup Onion preferably shallots/ chinna vengayam
- 6 cloves Garlic (skin on) crushed
- 2 inch Ginger crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 cup Coriander leaves chopped
Instructions
- Clean prawns by removing all the veins. Rinse a few times in cold water and marinate with turmeric powder, red chilli powder , coriander powder, salt and lemon juice. Let it sit for 15 minutes.
- Heat oil in a kadai, season with cumin seeds, fennel seeds and curry leaves.
- Add in onions and saute well. Followed by crushed ginger and garlic. Saute until everything turns crisp and golden brown.
- Add in the marinated prawns along with salt and saute over low flame for 15 minutes until the masala thickens and turns slightly dry.
- Finally add in the chopped coriander leaves and saute for a minute and switch off!
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Clean prawns by removing all the veins. Rinse a few times in cold water and marinate with turmeric powder, red chilli powder , coriander powder, salt and lemon juice. Let it sit for 15 minutes.
Heat oil in a kadai, season with cumin seeds, fennel seeds and curry leaves.
Add in onions and saute well. Making this dish with Chinna vengayam / shallots is a must for better taste. If using regular onion, you may have to saute longer to make it crisp. Followed by crushed ginger and garlic.
Saute until everything turns crisp and lightly brown.
Add in the marinated prawns along with salt.
Saute over low flame for 15 minutes until the masala thickens, it will kind of look like a gravy when you add the prawns as they release water but will slowly thicken as it cooks.
It will further dry up as you saute longer.
Finally add in the chopped coriander leaves and saute for a minute and switch off!
It should look this dry. This will go very well with regular sambar, rasam, thayir kind of meals or even tiffin items like idli kal dosai!
11 Comments
First time cooked this receipe. I didn’t have spicy red chilli powder, used the normal chilli powder. End result was yummy. Thanks for sharing your receipe.
Thank you so much♥️ that’s perfectly fine to alter with normal chilli powder too, it works 🙏🙏🙏
Hi Mullai Mam ,
Can you please tell where and which variety of prawns to buy in USA ?
Mrithini, Walmart has it all..Jumbo, medium size and small but frozen packs. Sometimes I get mine from Sam’s club..fresh prawns are available in Chinese stores, some Indian meat shops have them too, they head & tail on…needs cleaning though. I don’t know where you live but any super Walmart should have in stock. Thanks.
Thank you . I live in California. I was not sure which one to pick . Cooked and frozen ones or the raw and frozen ones ? TIA
Always go for raw…cooked prawns doesn’t have any taste, just flesh. Raw comes as frozen with tail on…though it says cleaned and deveined I still do clean them. The vein on top is what they remove but the bottom has one too, I remove those too.
Thanks very much ! 🙂
Mullai akka , I follow you on IG and have tried a few dishes from your website . This was hands down the easiest and tastiest dish I’ve tried ! Thank you for posting your amazing recipes !
– Theeeni pandaram ?
Hello Theeni Pandaram…. good to hear the term as i am one too. Thanks Yuvi for trying the recipe.. i do this every week as its very easy and goes well witth simple rasam sadam, would say a life saver kind of recipe. Thanks again for being a fan of our page.
Hello Mullai Madam,
I tried out today and t turned out very well.
Can you try and post us the famous putter Jeyaraman hotel’s prawn fry.
It is very famous.
Thank you
Hello Arthi, Thank you so much for trying. I have never tasted that hotel prawn fry and have no clue as to how they taste. But after mentioning i did saw a few you tube videos looks like they just regular prawn varuval with baby prawns which makes the dish really tasty. I will try when i get a chance. Thanks Again!