Welcome To RecipesHitz.blogspot.com | If you lot inquire me what produce I ready most, my answer volition likely locomote Chinese as well as Malay food. I dear the rich as well as aromatic Malay/Nyonya curries, salad, cakes as well as cookies. I tin larn most of the spices, herbs as well as other Malay ingredients over hither to brand almost anything I want, though many ingredients tin locomote quite expensive over hither than dorsum home.
Today recipe is a Malay fashion pumpkin as well as prawn curry called masak lemak labu & udang, loosely translated equally rich pumpkin alongside prawns. It is a creamy curry non also spicy hot.
Ingredients:
close 500g peeled as well as de-seeded pumpkin or butternut squash
200 - 250g raw manly someone monarch prawns/shrimps (I used frozen peeled raw prawns)
1 lemongrass
1 modest sprig of curry leaves close 10 - 12 leaves, best piece of job fresh or frozen
1 - 1.5 loving cup of kokosnoot milk (I used tin, to a greater extent than kokosnoot milk richer as well as creamier the gravy)
1 tbsp moisture tamarind
Spice paste:
1 - two clove of garlic, peeled
iii walnut size shallots, peeled as well as cutting into modest pieces
1 - iii large medium oestrus ruddy chillies, de-seeded (as many as well as spicy equally you lot like)
1 pinky finger size fresh or frozen turmeric root/ or 1 tsp of solid pose down turmeric
1 thumbsize chunk of galangal, cutting into modest pieces
iii candle nuts (buah keras)
two tsp belacan or shrimp paste
Method:
Today recipe is a Malay fashion pumpkin as well as prawn curry called masak lemak labu & udang, loosely translated equally rich pumpkin alongside prawns. It is a creamy curry non also spicy hot.
Ingredients:
close 500g peeled as well as de-seeded pumpkin or butternut squash
200 - 250g raw manly someone monarch prawns/shrimps (I used frozen peeled raw prawns)
1 lemongrass
1 modest sprig of curry leaves close 10 - 12 leaves, best piece of job fresh or frozen
1 - 1.5 loving cup of kokosnoot milk (I used tin, to a greater extent than kokosnoot milk richer as well as creamier the gravy)
1 tbsp moisture tamarind
sugar to taste
salt to taste
some cooking oil
Spice paste:
1 - two clove of garlic, peeled
iii walnut size shallots, peeled as well as cutting into modest pieces
1 - iii large medium oestrus ruddy chillies, de-seeded (as many as well as spicy equally you lot like)
1 pinky finger size fresh or frozen turmeric root/ or 1 tsp of solid pose down turmeric
1 thumbsize chunk of galangal, cutting into modest pieces
iii candle nuts (buah keras)
two tsp belacan or shrimp paste
Method:
- Soak moisture tamarind alongside 1/2 loving cup of boiling H2O till softened hence exit it to cool for a piece hence knead the pulp to unloosen the juice. Pass this through a sieve to take pulp as well as whatever seeds.
- Blend all the glue ingredients till smoothen using a mini blender. Can add together a behaviour on of H2O to relaxation blending. Or if you lot similar you lot tin pound the spices alongside a pestle as well as mortar.
- Cut pumpkin into bitesize chunks.
- Bruise the lemongrass past times bashing alongside a cleaver or rolling pin.
- If using frozen peeled prawns, defrost earlier cooking. De-vein if required past times lightly grade the dorsum of the prawn as well as rinse off nighttime vein.
- Heat wok or pan alongside close iii - v tbsp of cooking stone oil till hot, add together curry leaves as well as lemon grass nestling till stone oil is fragrant. Add spice glue locomote along stirring for close v minutes till fragrant.
- Add kokosnoot milk as well as pumpkin pieces, hence add together one-half the tamarind juice as well as plenty H2O to almost embrace the pumpkin pieces, plough upward the oestrus as well as oestrus till liquid is boiling.
- Cover alongside a lid as well as simmer at lower oestrus till pumpkin is cooked through as well as softened, add together to a greater extent than H2O during simmering if required the pumpkin volition absorb the liquid quickly, locomote along the gravy runny. Add plenty tabular array salt as well as sugar. Have a gustation to cheque saltiness, sweetness as well as sharpness. If required add together roughly or all the remaining tamarind juice. Everyone has their ain personal taste.
- Add prawns as well as ready for two - iii minutes till they plough pink.