Hot and Sour Dry Prawn / Eral Gravy

Ingredients :

Prawn / Eral / Iral - 250 gm Coconut Milk - 1 cup (Fresh & Thick) Tamarind Water - 3 tsp Tomato Puree - 1 no (blanched, peel skin off) Oil - 2 tbsp Required Salt for Gravy. To Marinate : (1/2 an hour) Lemon Juice - 1/2 no Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Required Salt for Prawn. To Grind into Paste : Ginger - 1" long Garlic - 8 cloves Dry Red Chili - 5 nos (blanched) Cinnamon Stick - 2 nos (2" long) Star Anise - 1 no Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp.

Method :

First Marinate Prawn with mentioned Ingredients for 1/2 an hour.

Meanwhile, Grind mentioned ingredients into paste with required Water.

Now heat Oil in a kadai, add ground paste and saute for an minute. Add Tomato Puree and again saute for an minute. Now add Coconut, Tamarind Water and required Salt, cook for 5mins in simmer until little thick gravy consistency.

Now add marinated Prawn pieces, cook for 5 to 7mins in medium flame till thick gravy consistency and also oil will separate from gravy. (Prawn Maximum Cooking Time is 5 - 7 mins in Medium Flame)

Serving Suggestion : Serve hot with Sambar or Curd  or Rasam.