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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Sri Lanka: The Cookbook

By Prakash K. Sivanathan and Niranjala M. Ellawala

Published 2017

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Ingredients

  • 400 g (14 oz) raw prawns (shrimp), shell on
  • 1 green (bell) pepper

Method

Wash and clean the prawns (shrimp). Remove the head and most of the shell, leaving it just on the tail. Wash them again, drain and set aside.

Remove the stems from the (bell) peppers, quarter and remove the seeds. Halve each quarter and cut them into about 1cm (½-inch) chunks and set aside. Loosen the layers of the onion quarters and set aside.

Put the oil in a large frying pan