Shrimp Fry

Sunday!!  The kids look forward to this day where they get a break from all the sweets and I make a non-vegetarian dish.  Usually it is either fish or shrimp.

We get a variety of shrimp including a dried version called ‘sode’. In Mumbai, we get fresh shrimp from the local City Light market and sode from the coastal region  of Maharashtra ( Konkan). The good thing about buying shrimp at the local market, you can get the fresh shrimp peeled.  

Sea food reminds me of some great times with friends and relatives. Whenever we have guests, they usually ask me to make an appetizer with sode, shrimp, kadya (dried Bombay Duck/ "Bombil" – it’s a fish commonly found in the Indian Ocean) or stuffed pomfret.

Today I added a lot of recipes to my journal. Some of sode, fish and shrimp.

Even the Khichdi that we made on Saturday, can be made with adding sode and a homemade ground garam masala. It tastes awesome!

Today, I would like to share the Shrimp fry recipe with you.

I always use fresh ground garlic, the bottled one does not give the same taste. The same is true for tamarind paste, always use fresh. Soak the tamarind in water and extract the paste from it. The store bought paste has more color and gives a slight bitter taste.
Sea food tastes best with fresh ingredients.

Shrimp Fry :

Ingredients:

Shrimp( Peeled and deveined)    2 pounds

Oil                                            2 tbsn                                                          

Turmeric Powder                       1 tspn

Chilli Powder                             2 tspn

Salt to taste

Garlic Paste( fresh)                   1 tbspn

Fresh garlic cloves                     

(with inner most peel intact)      5 small ones

Tamarind Paste (fresh)              ½ cup

Coriander powder                      ½ tspn

Garam Masala                           1 tspn

Water                                       ¼ cup

Procedure:

Marinate the shrimp for an hour with turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander  powder, salt, tamarind paste and garlic paste.

Heat the oil in a pan. Crush the garlic cloves and add them to the pan.

Once the garlic is slightly brown, add the shrimp.

Stir the shrimp till it starts to leave a little water.

Add the water and cook the shrimp.

Once the water has evaporated add the garam masala.

Stir the shrimp for a couple of minutes.

Add chopped coriander leaves to garnish.

Enjoy!!