Ingredients for Prawn Onion:
1. Prawns – 20
2. Coconut grated – ½
Shallots – 3
Red chillies – 4-5
Salt – As required
3. Oil – As needed
4. Onions chopped – 1
5. Chilli powder – ¼ small spoon
Turmeric powder – 2 pinches
Salt – As needed
6. Water – 2 cups
7. Rice flour – 2 cups
How to prepare Prawn Onion?
1. Clean prawns and keep aside.
2. Blend ingredients no: 2 in a mixer. Don’t grind it smooth.
3. Heat oil in a pan, and sauté onions.
4. Add prawns and ingredients no: 5, and sauté well.
5. When water content is absorbed, add 3/4th portion of blended masala to it and turn off the flame.
6. Boil water in a vessel, and add rice flour and salt.
7. Reduce the flame and mix well the contents.
8. Turn off the flame. The flour mixture should be thick, similar to idiyappam.
9. Place a little flour mixture in an onion-shaped mould, and press it.
10. Place a little masala inside it, and wrap it with a little more flour mixture.
11. Close the mould again to get a perfect onion shape.
12. Press a little coconut mixture on its top (like a stalk) to get a perfect onion shape.
13. Steam cook the contents.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine October 1-14, 2010
Also read a few prawn snack recipes here. Click on the images in the gallery to read.
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