Doi chingri
Seafood

Doi chingri recipe

Its  a sweet and sour curry with jumbo prawns flavoured with whole spices. The curry is just simple with minimal ingredients.

Ingredients

Main ingredient

  • 6 Jumbo prawns

Marinate

  •  1 cup curd
  • 1 tsp of turmeric
  • Salt to taste
  • 6 to 7 green chilies sliced

Whole spices

  • 4 to 5 cloves
  • 4 green cardamoms
  • 1 cinnamon stick

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp garam masala powder

Salt to taste

4 tbsp oil

Instructions

  • Marinate the prawns with all ingredients including curd ,turmeric powder and sliced green chilies.
  • Heat oil
  • add crushed whole spices
  • Add the prawns with marinate.
  • Add salt and sugar
  • Simmer for 10 minutes.
  • When prawn become opaque ,take them out
  • Add 1/2 cup of water
  •  Add garam masala powder and reduce till the oil is seen
  • Add the prawns and mix ,cook for 2 minutes for flavors to marry.
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Doi chingri

Doi chingri recipe

Its a sweet and sour curry with jumbo prawns flavoured with whole spices. The curry is just simple with minimal
Course Main Course
Cuisine East Indian, Indian cuisine
Keyword party prawn recipes, seafood recipe, Seafoodlover
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 3 persons
Author indrani

Ingredients

Main ingredient

  • 6 Jumbo prawns

Marinate

  • 1 cup curd
  • 1 tsp of turmeric
  • Salt to taste
  • 6 to 7 green chilies sliced

Whole spices

  • 4 to 5 cloves
  • 4 green cardamoms
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp garam masala powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 4 tbsp oil

Instructions

Instructions

  1. Marinate the prawns with all ingredients including curd ,turmeric powder and sliced green chilies.
  2. Heat oil
  3. add crushed whole spices
  4. Add the prawns with marinate.
  5. Add salt and sugar
  6. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  7. When prawn become opaque ,take them out
  8. Add 1/2 cup of water
  9. Add garam masala powder and reduce till the oil is seen
  10. Add the prawns and mix ,cook for 2 minutes for flavors to marry.

 

Aboutindrani

Indrani Sen is a teacher,lecturer in Information Technology/Computer Science for the past 12 years. She has authored 4 text books in Information Technology.
She is passionate about cooking and loves to blog about food and travel.This blog is like my baby as I have built it from scratch by myself with little help from colleagues ,friends and of course Google.

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