Topic: How do you prepare/pre-cook Green Prawns for Curries

[andymac]

Hi

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

[haldi]

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

[curryhell]

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.

[Peripatetic Phil]

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.

[976bar]

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...

[Whandsy]

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

[Peripatetic Phil]

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.

[Whandsy]

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