How to Cook Tasty Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind

Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind.

You can have Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind

1. You need 6 of chicken breasts, cubed.
2. Prepare 1 kg of large prawns, shelled and deveined.
3. Prepare 3 tbsp of oil - I use sunflower oil when making a curry.
4. It's 1 of medium onion, finely chopped.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.
6. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds.
7. You need 6 of whole peppercorns.
8. It's 4 of cloves.
9. It's 6 of curry leaves.
10. It's 1 of bay leaf.
11. Prepare 1 tbsp of (heaped) ginger, garlic, chilli paste.
12. It's 1 tbsp of curry powder (more can be added as per your preference).
13. It's 1/2 tsp of tumeric powder (hurdee/ haldi).
14. You need 3 of large tomatoes, grated (discard skins).
15. It's 1 tbsp of corriander powder.
16. Prepare 1 cup of tamarind "sauce" about 15 - 20 grms dissolved in a cup of warm water then strained & discarded the seeds & pulp. May be substited with about a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Note: tamarind gives an amazing flavour and thickens the gravy.
17. You need 1 bunch of fresh corriander, chopped.

Chicken and Prawn Curry with Tamarind instructions

1. Slightly heat oil in a pan then add in the cumin, mustard seeds, cloves, peppercorns and onion..
2. Sautè until onion changes colour to a light golden brown..
3. Add in curry leaves and bay leaf..
4. Mix in ginger, garlic and chilli paste. Followed by curry powder and tumeric powder..
5. Add grated tomato and allow to cook through..
6. Mix in the corriander powder..
7. Once cooked, add in tamarind sauce and allow to simmer for a few moments..
8. Mix in chopped corriander..
9. Place cubed chicken into gravy. When almost done, add in the prawns and allow to cook through..
10. Serve with basmati or other rice of choice..