Stove-grilled jumbo prawns with 20 garlic cloves

Name: Stove-grilled jumbo prawns with 20 garlic cloves
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 4 of the biggest shell-on prawns you can lay your hands on, or 4 lobster tails, uncooked and rinsed; 4 of the biggest shell-on prawns you can lay your hands on, or 4 lobster tails, uncooked and rinsed; juice of 1 lemon; 20 tiny cloves garlic, 3 peeled and crushed, the rest unpeeled; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; lemon halves, to serve; 100 g butter; 1 sprig curry leaves, pulled from their stem; vegetable oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Little Indian about this. Just unadorned seafood, with the lift of garlic, curry leaves and butter. They dish up something similar for the tourists down by Cochin’s Chinese fishing nets.

Ingredients

4 of the biggest shell-on prawns you can lay your hands on, or 4 lobster tails, uncooked and rinsed
salt and pepper
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Asia
India
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Toss the prawns with plenty of salt and a twist of black pepper, the lemon juice and the crushed garlic, and leave on one side, covered, for about half an hour. Heat a heavy frying pan until medium hot, toss the whole garlic cloves in a dash of oil and some salt, then spread over the pan, cover and gently pan-roast until they’re tender. Rub the prawns with 1 tbsp of oil and place them in the ho