Goan prawn curry (Ambot tik)
Goan prawn curry (Ambot tik)

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, goan prawn curry (ambot tik). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Goan Prawn Curry with Coconut (Ambot Tik). Goan Prawn Curry with Coconut is a spicy, sour curry that comes from Goa and is also called Ambot Tik. Just serve this with steamed rice and you have a truly satisfying meal!

Goan prawn curry (Ambot tik) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Goan prawn curry (Ambot tik) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook goan prawn curry (ambot tik) using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Goan prawn curry (Ambot tik):
  1. Take 250 gms Prawns fresh or frozen
  2. Make ready 1/4 cup coconut grated
  3. Make ready 1 cup coconut milk (1st extract)
  4. Make ready 8-10 Kashmiri red chillies
  5. Get 1 tbsp pepper corn
  6. Take 1 tbsp Cumin
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp Coriander
  8. Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric
  9. Take 6-7 cloves garlic
  10. Prepare 4 tbsp refined oil. You can also use coconut oil if you prefer
  11. Prepare 1/2 inch grated ginger
  12. Get Bunch curry leaves
  13. Take Ball sized tamarind
  14. Take 1/2 cup chopped onions
  15. Prepare 1 cup chopped tomatoes
  16. Get to taste Salt

This dish typically uses prawns or shark, but you can also make it with another firm-fleshed fish or chicken. Serve this hot and sour Goan curry with steamed white rice or sannas, steamed Goan rice cakes. A Goan fish curry recipe, Ambot tik uses either shark or prawns as it's main ingredient. Goan Ambotik is a classic recipe hailing from the west of India.

Instructions to make Goan prawn curry (Ambot tik):
  1. Wash and clean the prawns. If using frozen ones, then soak the prawns in water for about 15 mins, to defrost. Then wash them at least once or twice. Keep aside
  2. In a blender, add coconut, Kashmiri red chilli, peppercorns, cumin, coriander, turmeric, tamarind, garlic, coconut milk and blend into a smooth paste.
  3. Add 4 tbsps of oil to a pan, once heated add in the curry leaves. Chopped onions, ginger and sauté over medium heat, until the onions turn translucent.
  4. Then add in the chopped tomatoes and salt. Sauté until the tomatoes turn mushy.
  5. Then add the masala paste and fry it, till the raw smell goes off and the oil starts leaving the sides.
  6. In goes the cleaned prawns. Add a lil water and let it cook on sim, till the prawns are cooked. Prawns takes very little time to cook, max 5 mins. Once they curl inwards, they are cooked.
  7. Serve with hot steamed rice and you have one soul satisfying meal on your plate.

Cooked traditionally with fish the key to this The heat of the curry comes from the dried chillies. I've opted for Kashmiri chillies which lend a lovely Traditional Ambot tik has no coconut in it. It features chillies garlic/ginger and tamarind mainly. The meaning of Ambot is sour and tik is spicy in portugese and here comes another portugese influenced delicious dish from Goa, made with fish that has less bones, the Ambot Tik. In the meantime grind the above masala ingredients with a little water to get the ambot tik masala.

So that’s going to wrap it up with this special food goan prawn curry (ambot tik) recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am sure that you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!