Deep Frying Shrimp with Cornstarch | Unique Prawns Fry
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Serves: 4 People
 
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Ingredients
  • -----For Shrimp-----
  • Shrimp/Prawn - 250g (after clean)
  • Garlic paste - ½ tablespoon
  • Ginger paste - ½ teaspoon
  • Semi thick tamarind juice - 2 tablespoons
  • Turmeric powder - ¼ teaspoon
  • Chili powder - ½ teaspoon
  • Water - 100ml
  • Salt - As you want
  • -----For Coating Batter-----
  • All-purpose flour - 75g
  • Cornstarch - 2 tablespoons
  • Garlic paste - 1 teaspoon
  • Ginger paste - ½ teaspoon
  • Turmeric powder - ¼ teaspoon
  • Baking powder - ¼ teaspoon
  • Sugar - ¼ teaspoon
  • Water - 150ml
  • Salt - As you need
Instructions
  1. Rinse the shrimps well enough and peel off its skins except the tail portion.
  2. Prepare the ginger garlic paste and tamarind juice. Besides, get ready with water, turmeric powder, chili powder, and salt.
  3. Place the cooking pan on the stove and add shrimps. On top of that, add turmeric powder, chili powder, ginger-garlic paste, tamarind juice, water, and salt. Give a mix and switch on the flame.
  4. Cook covered under the high flame until shrimps cooked and all the liquid evaporates. In a halfway through, take off the lid and give a stir. For me, it takes about 15 minutes.
  5. Now, take the flour, cornstarch, ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, baking powder, sugar, water, and salt.
  6. Put everything in a large bowl and mix thoroughly using your fingers till you get a smooth batter.
  7. Let the batter coat the shrimps by sweeping the shrimps here and there.
  8. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and fry the batter coated shrimps under the high flame until they turn to golden.
  9. This is how to cook a tasty deep frying shrimp with cornstarch. Serve and enjoy this Sri Lankan style delicious and unique prawns fry.
Notes
I instantly made ginger and garlic pastes. If it's hard, use the bottled one.
Large shrimps are good for this particular dish.
You can add food coloring in the batter if you wish.
Let the oil heat up its maximum before adding each batch of shrimps.
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