Curried Prawns in Pineapples
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 lbs medium shrimp, cooked, peeled and deveined
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, coarsely chopped
- 1⁄4 cup chopped chives, divided
- 2 tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons curry powder, Sri Lankan Syle is best for this
- 1 1⁄4 cups fish stock or 1 1/4 cups chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 2 medium pineapple
directions
- Heat oil in pan and add onion and 2 Tablespoons chives, tomato, and curry powder.
- Cook 5 minutes without browning.
- Add stock and simmer 5 minutes or so.
- Remove from heat.
- Blend butter and flour together and add in small pieces to sauce, stirring until smooth.
- Add prawns and cook gently until just pink, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Now add salt, pepper and hot sauce if desired, to your taste.
- Meantime, plunge the pineapples into boiling water for 3 minutes and drain.
- Halve them exactly down the center, leaving some leaves intact on each half.
- Hollow out some of the flesh and fill the hollows with prawn mixture.
- Sprinkle with remaining chives.
- Allow 1/2 pineapple per person.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef PotPie
Southworth, Washington
One of the old time founding members of Recipezaar. I live in Port Orchard, Washington.
I LOVE to cook and bake nearly everything!
I HATE to see people join the site, have no published recipes, but rag on another cook in a review on a recipe they haven't even tried or didn't follow.
Oh, and I hate cilantro, too. :)