Name: Prawn Malay Gravy Curry
Ingredients: bagda prawns; ghee

Prawn Malay Gravy Curry

Ingredients

bagda prawns
ghee

Directions

Select bagda prawns when available.
Remove the heads from the prawns and parboil them.
Discard the heads as they absorb ghee during frying.
Cook the prawns in ghee, following the method for chicken malay gravy curry, but omit the ginger.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.