Our sunday special goes for this green mint pulao cooked along with prawns..We love seafoods, been born and brought up in seashore city my favourite seafood always goes to prawns, i love to add some prawns even while cooking some veggies stir fries, but nowadays am trying to control myself to add prawns in my stir fries and trying to add oats to make them more healthier..Coming to this delicious, spicy  seafood pulao goes for simple ingredients , its get ready within few minutes.. While cooking the aroma of this pulao itself tempts and makes everyone hungry, this pulao is one of our family favourite which i usually prepare simply with tomatoes but this time since i had a bunch of mint leaves i prepared them as mint flavoured prawn pulao, i served this delicious pulao along with simple cucumber raita and everyone at home enjoyed it much..



1/4kg Prawns (cleaned)
2cups Basmati rice
2nos Onion (chopped)
3cups Coconut milk
2nos Whole spices (bayleaves, cloves, cinnamon stick & cardamom)
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
1tsp Garam masala powder
Salt
Oil

To Grind:
1cup Mint leaves
5nos Garlic cloves
1inch Ginger (chopped)
3tbsp Grated coconut
5nos Green chillies

Soak rice for 15 minutes,drain the water and keep the rice in a colander, meanwhile grind all the ingredients given in the list 'To Grind' with enough water as fine paste...Heat enough oil in the pressure cooker and fry the whole spices, add the onions saute until they turns transculent, now add the ground masala,turmeric powder, garam masala powder and fry until the raw smell goes away..


Add the prawns saute everything for few minutes...finally add the coconut milk and bring to boil..add the rice and salt and cook everything in pressure cooker with lid closed, cook in simmer for few minutes until the rice get well cooked....

Serve hot with any raitas...

Its quite a known pickle in my hometown and each and every family have their own version of making out this prawn pickle, some will go for ginger garlic paste while other will go for just garlic cloves and special spice powder prepared with cumin seeds,mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds..Learned from my mom, this pickle is one of my all time favourite, a real feast for seafood lovers..This pickle stay for more than two to three months, if they are conserved properly..My way of making out this pickle is definitely quite an easy way to prepare this spicy, mouthwatering pickle... This pickle goes awesome with any dish, we love to have for our breakfast along with idlies or dosas and for lunch along with rasam or sambar..This pickle can also suits prefectly as a spread over breads and its a real feast for spicy lovers...While we were kid, my mom used to prepare this spicy pickle with freshy bought prawns, which is quite a dream for me since i dont get that much easily fresh prawns here, anyhow we get fortunately variety of frozen prawns..My mom is an expert in making this pickles which i learned after getting married, she usually prepare almost 4or 5bottles full of this pickle whenever she do and those bottles will definitely get finished before a month..We love that much..



1/2kg Prawn
3tbsp Ginger garlic paste
1cup Garlic cloves
6nos Green chillies
2tbsp Red chilly powder
1tsp Turmeric powder
2tbsp Mustard seeds+1tsp Mustard seeds for tempering
3tbsp Fenugreek seeds
3tbsp Cumin seeds
1/4litre Oil
1/2cup Vinegar
Salt

Clean the prawns and marinate the cleaned prawns with turmeric powder and salt for few minutes.. Heat the oil, fry the prawns until they turn bit crispy, fry the garlic cloves and green chillies in the same oil and keep aside..

Dry roast the mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds until they turns brown, grind them as fine powder..Fry the mustard seeds for tempering in the oil, add the ginger garlic paste and stir continously until the raw smell goes away..meanwhile mix the grounded powder,salt along with red chilly powder and vinegar..pour this mixture to the oil and stir until the oil gets separates...Add the already fried prawns, garlic cloves, green chillies ..Cook everything in simmer until the paste turn thicker..Put off the stove..

Let them get cool completely..Conserve them in bottle and consume anytime..

Born and brought up in a seashore city, we guys literally fond for seafoods..I always go search for different style of making out seafood dishes especially regarding prawns..Also am a person who love spicy Andhra dishes very much, so needless to say that when Lakshmi of Kitchen Chronicles announced this month's Tried and Tasted event went for Sailu's Food a fantastic space where Sailaja shares all her traditional Andhra recipes, bakes and delicious International dishes..Her blog is definitely a treasure for Andhra recipes..When i went through her space, i loved her seafood recipes and this royallu mudda kura tempted me a lot and got hooked to this dish..I prepared this curry before few days, we enjoyed truly especially my DH loved this fantastic curry.


500grms Prawns (washed and deveined)
2nos Onions (big & sliced)
1tsp Red chilly powder
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
15nos Curry leaves
Salt
Oil

To Grind:
5nos Garlic cloves
1tbsp Coriander seeds
3nos Cloves
1inch Cinnamon stick
1/2tsp Poppy seeds
2tbsp Coconut(grated)

Marinate the prawns in salt, turmeric powder, red chilly powder for few minutes, meanwhile grind the ingredients given in the list 'To grind' as fine paste with enough water..

Cook the marinated prawns, until they get cooked and the water from prawns get disappears..Heat enough oil in a pan and saute the onions,curry leaves until they turns transparent, add the grounded paste and cook well in medium flame, add the cooked prawns to the cooking paste and veggies..Cook until the water from the veggies get completely disappears but i didnt cooked until the water get disappears as we love to have our prawn curry slightly with gravy..

Serve hot with rice...

Yesterday lunch was this quick Shrimp fried rice which i prepared with already cooked rice with shrimps, green peas,french beans and carrots which i finally cooked everything with mixture of chinese sauces, this easy shrimp fried rice suits prefectly for a lunch box menu and a real feast for shrimps or seafood lovers..For the vegetarian version of this fried rice, just skip the shrimp part else u can follow the same way to prepare the vegetarian or vegetable fried rice...I do fried rice often to finish if they are some leftover veggies in my fridge and everyone at home love this sort of quick,easy,filling as well as healthy fried rice with any sort of side dishes or simply with ketchup..

1no Tamarind (lime size)
1noTomato(big)
20nos Shallots
5nos Garlic cloves
1cup Potatoes(cubed)
1cup Raw banana (cubed)
5nos Drumstick pieces
2tbsp Dhania powder
1tsp Red chilly powder
3tsp Gingelly oil
1tbsp Vengaya Vadagam
Salt (as per taste)
5 nos Curry leaves

Grind the tamarind with tomatoes with 1/2 cup of warm water...make it as thick paste,strain this grounded paste and add enough water...heat oil in a kadai n splutter vadagam..add the garlic cloves,curryleaves and shallots, fry it until it turns transparent, add drumsticks,raw bannana pieces to the sauted shallots..finally add the prawns put the stove in low flame..this will cook the prawns...

Add salt, dhania powder and red chilli powder to the tamarind n tomato juice ,now add this spiced juice to the cooking veggies and prawns,cook everything in high flame..once its boil for the first time add the potatoes pieces to this gravy..cover n let it cook for 10 minutes...put off the stove..

I had this prawn with bean sprouts once in a restaurant from that day onwards i have completely fallen to this fantastic, crunchy and healthy stir fry..I tried the same at home and this dish needs hardly few minutes to cook up and its really a delicious side dish when served along with hot steaming thai rice or with our simple basmati rice...Real feast for Thai food lovers and this is really a quick stir fry to prepare and even a novice non vegetarian cook can prepare this stir fry quickly and easily...If u dont like prawns in this stir fry u can either go for chicken chunks or for tofu cubes, both together works out wonder too...Coz of the bean sprouts, this stir fry tastes crunchy, filling,healthy and delicious...


25nos Prawns (i used the big ones)
5nos Garlic cloves (crushed)
1tbsp Rice vinegar
2cups Bean sprouts
2tbsp Dark Soya sauce
1tbsp Oyster sauce
2tbsp Fish sauce
1tbsp Corn flour
Salt
2nos Garlic chives(chopped)
Sesame oil

Heat the sesame oil and fry the garlic until they turns slightly brown, add the washed and deveined prawns and stir fry for few minutes,add the rice vinegar and stir again, now add the bean sprouts, saute for fes minutes, mix together the soya saucee, corn flour,oyster sauce, fish sauce and add this mixture to the cooking prawn and bean sprouts, put off the stove once the sauces gets thickens..

Serve immediately the stir fry topped with garlic chives!!

I was planning since a long to make out pizza with either chicken tikka or with tiger prawns tikka...Weekend went really fast and quick, i prepared this prawn tikka pizza for our friday dinner with store bought pizza dough, store bought tikka masala and pizza sauce with some grated emmental cheese..Its really very quick to prepare this prawn tikka pizza which hardly need few minutes for marination else its really very easy to make out this pizza..This indo-italian fusion of pizza tastes too fantastic and we enjoyed having for our dinner with simple cucumber salad...


1no Pizza dough
1cup Store bought pizza sauce
1/2cup Grated emmental cheese
20nos Prawns
1tsp Dry Basil leaves
2tbsp Store bought tikka masala
1tsp Yogurt

Marinate the deveined and washed prawns with store bought tikka masala and yogurt with salt if needed...let it sit for half an hour..

Preheat the oven to 400F..Arrange the already bought pizza dough over a baking sheet, spread the pizza sauce over the pizza dough..now arrange one by one gently the marinated prawns with the tikka masala..springle the grated cheese and dry basil leaves...Bake the pizza for 20minutes in middle rack and enjoy warm..


I have won the create for chilli chopper event which went on Sanjana's Ko Rosai, she was kind enough to send this chilli chopper with some encouraging words..Thanks a ton to her and this is my first winning event of this year, needless to say how happy i am...Hugs to Sanjana....thanks dear for selecting my butternut squash rasam and choosing me as  winner...