Shrimp in spicy red sauce - We got so many tomatoes this summer from our kitchen garden and I have ever since been trying to make anything that calls for tomatoes in recipes. Picking fresh organic tomatoes from the garden is truly a great feeling, love the smell of fresh tomatoes. It has been over a month since I bought tomatoes from the grocery store! After cooking many recipes of tomato soups and salads, decided to make shrimp curry with tomatoes and since my mom is visiting us, I planned to let her cook and just watch 🙂
Shrimp or Prawn in Tomato and Red chili sauce is a common recipe in most households in Kerala who have shrimp or prawn, also called "Chemeen Molagitadu" in my native language which means Shrimp in tomato chilly sauce! This easy-to-make curry goes very well with rice or Rotis. Using Kashmiri Chilly powder in this recipe gives the curry a bright red color. Especially for people who cannot take in much spice, this is a good alternative as it is milder than the regular chilly powder and gives a good color to the curry. The taste of sweet tomatoes, with a little tangy tamarind and spice of the red chilly powder, makes the curry very irresistible and I would highly recommend this dish if you have not tried it before. Please read on for the full recipe.
Shrimp in tomato and Red Chili sauce
Ingredients
- 1 lb shrimp
de-veined and de-shelled - 4-5 medium-sized tomatoes cubed
- 10 shallots halved or ½ onion sliced
- 2 tbsp ginger cut into small pieces
- 2 tbsp garlic cut into small pieces
- 4 tsp Kashmiri red chilly powder
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 2 green chilies
- 2 sprig curry leaves
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil or coconut oil
Instructions
- Take a small lemon-sized tamarind ball in a cup of water.
- Squeeze and strain the tamarind juice.
- Take a deep bottomed pan and heat up the tamarind water.
- Add another cup of water.
- Add the cut shallots, green chilies, ginger, garlic, and tomatoes to it.
- Add turmeric, chilly powder, and salt.
- Continue cooking until well cooked.
- Add the shrimp and continue boiling until cooked.
- The consistency should be thick.
- Add the sprig of curry leaves.
- Drizzle a tbsp of vegetable or coconut oil (optional) if you like.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve with Rotis or rice! Enjoy.
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Wow...This is looking so delicious..
Thank you so much Anshu!
Those prawns look so tasty. Love all of the flavors in that dish (:
Thank you so much , glad you liked all the flavors in the dish and it is indeed tasty!
Looks so tasty!!
Thank you so much Archana! It was tasty indeed .
Looks amazing Nisha. You are very lucky to have grown all those beautiful tomatoes. Will have to try this recipe, I love chilli. Lorelle 🙂
Thank you so much Lorelle! Yes indeed we were lucky to get so many tomatoes !! Hope you will try it sometime and I would love to hear how it turns out 🙂
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Very appealing colour !!
Thank you so much Jyo!