Prawn Curry?

Yes, I have made and eaten a dish out of a Monty Python sketch. For no other reason than boredom and having a book of the scripts to read during breaks today, I decided to make prawn curry tonight.

Argentinian white shrimp and tuna steaks were on specialat the market tonight, so I made tuna tartare and prawn curry for dinner . For the tartare, I shopped the tuna into a small dice, added chopped green onions, half a serrano chile, a little soy sauce, lime juice and salt. Then I formed it into a ring mold with a topper of sliced avocado.

For the curry, I caramelized a large minced onion with five cloves of garlic and a knob of ginger in ghee. When that was done, I removed the onion et al, briefly frizzled the shrimp, then dumped the shrimp, onion mixture, a teaspoon of hot curry powder and some berbere powder in, stirred, then put some coconot milk and stock I made from the shrimp shells in. Heated until done through and served over fresh basmati rice. All were very pleased with the results and now I have prawn curry for lunch tomorrow.

I’ll have some, thanks.

Lemon curry?

Oh, that sounds soooo good. I’m in awe of people who can cook Indian without Patak’s.

If you’ve got any leftovers, can you e-mail them to me?

Can you fax me some?