Recipe: at dinner Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry)

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Recipe: at dinner Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry). Shallow fry prawns till golden brown colour. Mix the fried curry leaves with the fried prawns. Kerala Style Prawn Fry (Konju/Chemmeen Varuthathu)is a tasty and aromatic seafood delicacy from Kerala, India.

Once you prepared this dish, you will prepare it again.

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!

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

Ingredients of Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry)

  1. Prepare of Prawns (Cleaned).

  2. It’s of Ginger ,Garlic Paste.

  3. Prepare of Juice of 1 Lemon.

  4. It’s of Kashmiri Chilli Powder.

  5. It’s of White Pepper Powder.

  6. Prepare of Black Pepper Powder.

  7. Prepare of Turmeric Powder.

  8. It’s of Salt.

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

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

Cook the prawns with ground ingredients in a little water till the prawns are cooked and the water absorbed.

Heat the oil in a kadai.

Add the prawns and fry till the prawns are crisp.

Kerala Style Prawns Fry (Chemmeen Fry) instructions

  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..

Combine with curry leaves and enough salt.

Prawns cooked crisp yet succulent in a matter of minutes.

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!).

Fried Prawns Kerala Style 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.