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Title: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: andymac on January 22, 2012, 08:54 AM

Hi

Has any one any ideas off various ways to precook prawns in readiness to go in say Jalfrezi or dansak curries

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: haldi on January 22, 2012, 09:56 AM

One my locals deep fries them for a couple of minutes
Til they go pink

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: curryhell on January 22, 2012, 10:16 AM

I wouldn't bother.  Simply add them as per the recipe.  Providing they are cooking in the sauce for 3 to 4 minutes they'll be cooked through.

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on January 22, 2012, 10:33 AM

Very strongly recommend not pre-cooking prawns; an overcooked prawn is rubbery and horrible.  Remove the gut (euphemistically often called "the vein", cut deeply down the back, and the prawn will open up during the cooking of the curry (3 to 4 minutes at most) and be juicy and flavoursome.

** Phil.

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: 976bar on January 22, 2012, 11:17 AM

Quote from: curryhell on January 22, 2012, 10:16 AM

I wouldn't bother.  Simply add them as per the recipe.  Providing they are cooking in the sauce for 3 to 4 minutes they'll be cooked through.

Totally agree with you there, and as Phil say's "Devein" them first otherwise they can sometimes be a bit bitter... :)

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: Whandsy on January 22, 2012, 11:26 AM

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Totally agree with you there, and as Phil say's "Devein" them first otherwise they can sometimes be a bit bitter...

Plus you don't want to eat prawn Sh*t  hehe ;)

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on January 22, 2012, 12:59 PM

Quote from: Whandsy on January 22, 2012, 11:26 AM

Plus you don't want to eat prawn Sh*t  hehe ;)

Particularly if you have seen said prawns feeding off the corpse of a drowned sailor in Hong Kong Harbour, as happened to a friend of mine during WW II.  He said he would never eat a prawn again having seen that -- apparently the entire corpse was covered in feeding prawns ...

** Phil.

Title: Re: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries
Post by: Whandsy on January 22, 2012, 01:14 PM

Quote from: Phil (Chaa006) on January 22, 2012, 12:59 PM

Quote from: Whandsy on January 22, 2012, 11:26 AM

Plus you don't want to eat prawn Sh*t  hehe ;)

Particularly if you have seen said prawns feeding off the corpse of a drowned sailor in Hong Kong Harbour, as happened to a friend of mine during WW II.  He said he would never eat a prawn again having seen that -- apparently the entire corpse was covered in feeding prawns ...

** Phil.

We should feed them on curry sauce then they'd be self marinading haha ;D ;D