Prawn Pulao is a simple and flavourful recipe where rice is cooked along with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and everyday spices with prawns being the star ingredient. Try it for your weekday meals and you will love every bite of it. Here is how to make Prawn Pulao Recipe.
Rice is one of those food items that is widely eaten all over the world.
While you can eat rice with curries and dals, you can always flavour it with your favourite vegetables, chicken/seafood and spices to make a delicious Pulao or Biryani.
Most of the days, I prefer making Vegetarian Pulao recipes such as Veg Pulao, Paneer Pulao, Mumbai Style Tawa Pulao, Matar Pulao, Gucchi Pulao and Gobi Pulao for my everyday meals.
But this time I tried my hands on this mouth-watering Prawn Pulao and we loved it at home.
I had some leftover prawns in the fridge and no one was interested in eating a curry, so I just whipped up this easy peasy Prawn Pulao.
Easy to make and delicious to eat, this Prawn Pulao also makes a great side dish for your house party meals, pot lucks or even for your weekday dinners.
This one looks like a simple dish, but once you take a bite, the flavours will just burst into your mouth.
Learn how to make Prawn Pulao recipe, an aromatic Pulao that will instantly make you hungry. Here is the recipe of Prawn Pulao.
What is Prawn Pulao?
Prawn Pulao is a one-pot dish where rice is cooked along with onions, ginger garlic paste, green masala, lemon juice and basic everyday spices with prawns being the star ingredient.
You can use any prawns of your choice to make this lightly spiced and aromatic recipe.
You can even add coconut milk instead of water to add more flavour to your pulao. Rice gets cooked in coconut milk and lends a beautiful taste to this pulao.
This Pulao is now a casual affair at home, as I prefer to make dishes, where ingredients are easily available rather than searching for fancy ingredients for my everyday meals.
What to serve with Prawn Pulao?
You can serve Prawn Pulao on its own, as it is full of flavour and does not need an accompaniment to flavour it even more.
Any Raita will go well with this dish.
You can even serve this Prawn Pulao as a side dish along with your weekend meals or just serve a refreshing salad along with the Pulao for everyday meals.
How to clean Prawns?
Cleaning prawns is an easy process! First and foremost, start by rinsing prawns in cold water and discard any that are discoloured or slimy. Make sure you wash them properly.
Hold the prawn tightly and firmly twist the head of the prawns. Next, hold the tail, peel away the outer shell, and pull off the legs from the underside of the shell.
Now use a knife and put a small cut that runs down the length of the prawn’s back. Once you make a cut, you will see a small black line, it’s the vein.
Use the tip of the knife to pull out the vein and discard it.
Rinse them once more with cold water and make sure that you have cleaned the intestines well.
Once you are done, your prawns are ready to use now.
Tips to make best Prawn Pulao
Add some chopped dill for a delicious flavour to this pulao.
Add cubed potatoes, capsicum and peas in this pulao if you wish.
You can also add some tandoori masala or spicy goda masala to the prawn pulao.
How to make Prawn Pulao Step By Step
Wash the rice and soak in water for 20 minutes.
Add tomato, green chilli, fresh coconut, coriander and mint in a grinder.
Grind to make a smooth paste. Add little water if required.
Heat ghee and oil in a pan. Once the oil is hot, add cloves, peppercorns, bay leaves, cinnamon and green cardamom and let them crackle for a few seconds. Add onion and fry until they are slightly browned.
Add ginger garlic paste and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Add the ground masala, coriander powder, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Add prawns, lemon juice, garam masala powder, salt to taste. Mix everything well.
Add drained rice and 2 and 1/2 cups of water.
Cover the pan and cook the rice until all the liquid is absorbed and rice is cooked well. Fluff the pulao using a fork and serve hot.
Prawn Pulao Recipe
Prawn Pulao Recipe
A simple and flavourful Pulao where rice is cooked along with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and everyday spices with prawns being the star ingredient. Try it for your weekday meals and you will love every bite of it.
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 cups Basmati Rice
- 1/2 cup Tomatoes chopped
- 2-3 Green Chillies
- 1/4 cup Fresh coconut grated
- 1/4 cup Fresh Coriander packed
- 1/4 cup Fresh mint packed
- 1 tbsp Ghee
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 2-3 Cloves
- 3-4 Black Peppercorns
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 inch Cinnamon
- 2 Green Cardamom
- 1/4 cup Onion chopped
- 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1 tsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 250 g Prawns
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
- 1/2 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Wash the rice and soak in water for 20 minutes.
Add tomato, green chilli, fresh coconut, coriander and mint in a grinder and grind to make a smooth paste.
Heat ghee and oil in a pan. Once the oil is hot, add cloves, peppercorns, bay leaves, cinnamon and green cardamom and let them crackle for a few seconds.
Add onion and fry until they are slightly browned.
Add ginger garlic paste and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Add the ground masala, coriander powder, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Add prawns, lemon juice, garam masala powder, salt to taste, drained rice and 2 and1/2 cups of water.
Cover the pan and cook the rice until all the liquid is absorbed and rice is cooked well.
Fluff the pulao using a fork. Serve hot.
Recipe Notes
You can cook the pulao in coconut milk instead of water for a taste change.
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Dr. Deepu
Simply gorgeous!!! Heartful thanks to the entire Whiskaffair family.
Neha Mathur
Thank you 🙂