15. Prawn Curry

Cooked this yesterday for my parents. Me dad had 2 helpings :)
Here's the recipe: (Serves 2)

Ingredients:
6-8 pieces of white king prawns
2 shallots
1 garlic
1/2 onion
3 slices of ginger
5-6 curry leaves
1 star anise
1 cinnamon stalk
3 tbsp curry powder diluted in half a cup of warm water
1/4 cup of coconut milk
1 small piece of dried tamarind
1/2 onion, sliced
1 green chilli, diagonally sliced
2 tbsp oil
Salt and sugar to taste
Sweet soy sauce

Method:

1. Pound the shallots, onion and ginger using a pestle and mortar
2. Heat the oil in a pot. Add the pounded items together with ginger, curry leaves, star anise and cinnamon stalk. Saute until they are fragrant
3. Add the diluted curry powder and stir well until 'pecah minyak'. Put in the coconut milk and stir for about 3 minutes
4. Put in the prawns, dried tamarind, green chilli and sliced onion. Put a few dash of sweet soy sauce together with salt and sugar. Cook for 5 minutes or until the prawns are done. You can adjust the gravy according to your taste by adding more soy sauce
5. Voila you're done! Serve with bread or hot rice