Easiest Way to Easy To Try At Home Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry)

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Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry). Marinate prawns with ginger garlic paste, tumeric powder, chilli powder, fennel powder and salt. Kerala Style Prawn Fry (Konju/Chemmeen Varuthathu)is a tasty and aromatic seafood delicacy from Kerala, India. It is a very favorable recipe for my home.

This Chemmeen/Konchu fry is great as an appetizer, and also goes as a side-dish with rice.

The best part is, you need just five ingredients!

The recipe inspired by our uncle's prawns fry preparation for our family get-together.

You can cook Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry) using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry)

  1. Prepare 500 gms of Prawns (Cleaned).

  2. It’s 2-3 tsp of Ginger ,Garlic Paste.

  3. You need 1 tsp of Juice of 1 Lemon.

  4. You need 2 tsp of Kashmiri Chilli Powder.

  5. It’s 1 tsp of White Pepper Powder.

  6. You need 1 tsp of Black Pepper Powder.

  7. It’s 1/4 tsp of Turmeric Powder.

  8. It’s As required of Salt.

  9. Prepare As required of Coconut Oil (For Shallow Frying).

The recipe for Chemmeen Porichathu or Fried Prawns is a keeper, there is the added step of double cooking the prawns, but counter-intuitively, this doesn't dry out the prawns, as you might expect.

Combine with curry leaves and enough salt.

Just Melt in Your Mouth - Good!!

Prawns cooked crisp yet succulent in a matter of minutes.

Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry) step by step

  1. Marinate the cleaned prawns with ginger garlic paste, lemon juice, turmeric powder, white pepper powder, black pepper powder, kashmiri chilli powder and salt. Keep in refrigerator for minimum 30 minutes. It is best if marinated overnight..

  2. Heat coconut oil in a kadai. Shallow fry prawns till golden brown colour. Serve hot with rice and fish curry..

  3. Tip: To make it more flavourful, you can deep fry 1 sprig of curry leaves in hot oil and mix it with the fried prawns..

Fried Prawns Kerala Style - 'Chemmeen Varuthathu' always provides the perfect side to any main dish (That is if you can keep yourself from finishing them off before your meal!).

Before I go into this prawn roast (chemmen roast) recipe, let's talk a bit about Kerala style roasts, in general.

If you want to make one, all you have to do is fry marinated meat, and then make a spicy sauce to go with it.

Unlike the Western style roasts that calls for baking, these require frying.

Prawns cooked and roasted in spicy onion tomato gravy, flavored with cocum.