This is the recipe of my SIL. I prepared this recipe for Iftar. My hubby and BIL love this dish very much. It’s like how u prepare normal ada, but slight difference. I steamed this ada with spicy coating, then shallow fried I. It tastes delicious when served warm. Do try this recipe. Hope everyone will love it!!!
Fried Prawns Ada
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Author: Faheema Abdulkader
Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: Malabar
Serves: 5 to 6
Ingredients
For the dough:
- Par boiled rice (puzhagalari)- 1 cup
- Rice powder - 4 to 5 tbsp or enough for binding the dough
- Salt - to taste
- Boiled water - to soak the rice
To Grind:
- Grated Coconut - ¼ cup
- Fenugreek seed - 1 tsp
For Marination:
- Prawns/button shrimps(cleaned and deveined) - 500 gm
- Red chili or Kashmiri chili powder- 11/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Salt - to taste
For the Masala:
- Onions chopped - 2 medium sized
- Ginger-Garlic paste - 2 tsp
- Green chili, chopped - l or 2
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Red chili/ kashmiri chili powder - ½ tsp
- Garam masala powder - ¼ tsp
- Coriander leaves, chopped - 1 tbsp
- Curry leaves, chopped - a few
- Coconut grated - 2 tbsp
- Salt - to taste
For Coating the Dough:
- Red chili/Kashmiri powder - 2 to 3 tbsp.
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Salt - required
Instructions
Making Shrimp/Prawn Masala
- Marinate the prawns with the above mentioned ingredients "for marination" and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- Heat a pan and pour some oil, shallow fry the prawns in batches at medium flame for about 4 to 5 minutes turning each side till light brown.Drain and transfer to a kitchen paper towel.
- When cooled down,cut the prawns into small slices.If using button shrimps, ignore the slicing part.
- I used prawns, as button shrimps are not available in UAE and some other countries.Button shrimp tastes better.
- In the same pan ( used for frying shrimps), add chopped onions and salt, saute till translucent.
- Add ginger- garlic paste,chopped green chilies, turmeric powder, chili powder and garam masala, saute till the raw smell goes away.
- Add chopped coriander and saute again.
- Then add prawns and saute well.Finally add grated coconut and chopped curry leaves and saute again.
- Taste it, adjust the salt and spices according to your needs.
- Cover and let it cook for 3 or 4 minutes over low flame.
- Turn off the flame and keep aside.
Making the rice dough
- Soak the par-boiled rice in boiled water for 2 to 3 hrs. Boiled water is a must other wise it is difficult to grind.
- After that, grind the par-boiled rice with 1½ cups of water in a mixer. Pour this ground rice mixture to the bowl, add salt. Then add the ground ingredients and rice powder, make it into a soft dough. Divide the dough into small balls.
- Take a plastic cover or sheet and apply oil on it. Place a small rice ball on the sheet and flatten it thinly with your palm.
- Add 1 tbsp of prawns masala and shape it into either moon shape or cylindrical shape. Repeat the steps till done.
- Make a semi-thick paste with the ingredients mentioned in "for coating of dough" with water. Dip the Adas or shrimp stuffed rice dough in this paste.
- Place the shrimp stuffed rice dough or Adas in the steamer and steam it for about 10 to 15 mins till done.
- Heat the pan, pour some oil and shallow fry the adas at medium heat till light brown. Place it on a plate lined with kitchen paper towel.
- Serve warm.
