Spicy Preserved Prawns

Every recipe has an origin that makes a good story, some more interesting than others. This delightful Patyo originates from a village in Gujarat, India, called Tarapore. There used to be a Parsi Community in Tarapore but with so much migration, at last count there are only a couple of them still living in this village.

My own family lived in nearby Surat in the late 1800s but by the 1950s most of them had moved to Mumbai, Kolkata and Pune. My grandaunts and aunts all loved t