Tips:
While using ginger and garlic paste in curries, always use garlic at 60% ratio and ginger at 40% as ginger is very strong and may make your dish sharp and pungent
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 4 tbsp sunflower oil
- 225-250 gm of large fresh or frozen peeled prawns or fish
- ½ tbsp cumin seeds
- 1 green chilli chopped
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp Garam masala
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
- 1 piece of ginger (1 inch, grated)
- 4 tbsp natural yoghurt
- 1 bell pepper chopped
- 5 tbsp of tomato pasata
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Heat some oil and add Cumin and mustard seeds until they start changing colour in about 2 mins
- Now add the grated ginger and the crushed garlic and green chilli, turmeric and cook for about minute.
- Add the yoghurt, tomato pasata and salt.
- cook slowly for 3 minutes until sauce changes to slightly dark colour
- Add the prawns and bell pepper and cook on low/med heat for about 5 mins , if fresh or 8 mins if frozen
- Add Garam masala cook for 1 minute
Your dish is ready to serve with long grain rice mixed with wild rice or warm naan