Prawns Cutlets Recipe

Prawn Cutlet Recipe is very simple and easy to make at home. It is usually prepared with prawn or shrimp, boiled potatoes, spices, different herbs, and breadcrumbs. This is tasty and delicious food and could be made at any type of cocktail party, as a starter dish, or as a side dish for any ceremony.

For the shrimp cutlet recipe, there is no need to cook the prawns as they cook very fast so you just use them raw in cutlets, then fry them and they would cook completely and perfectly.

You can also make these cutlets with even Chicken, Beef, or say Fish. To enjoy the yummy prawn cutlets every time, you could also make them in advance and freeze them in your refrigerator.

Ingredients for Prawns Cutlets Recipe:

• 250 grams of Shelled Prawns
• One Chopped onion
• One big Cooked and crumbled fresh potato
• One teaspoon of ginger paste
• One teaspoon of freshly prepared Garlic paste
• One teaspoon of Chili powder
• Half teaspoon of turmeric powder
• Salt for taste
• Two tablespoons Chopped Coriander leaves
• One tablespoon of Lime juice
• Two Beaten Egg whites
• 3/4 cup of the Breadcrumbs
• Excess Oil for deep frying

Method #1:

First of all, you have to blitz the fresh prawns or fried prawns coarsely in a common grinder. Then keep it aside for some time.

Now you have to heat oil in a separate pan. Add your chopped onion and sauté till translucent in the pan. After that add the ginger-garlic paste to the mixture and Sauté till the raw smell goes.

If you are using fresh prawns then add salt, chili powder, and turmeric powder and mix it very well. You can add the coarsely ground prawns and cook them till all the liquid is evaporated and the mixture is completely dry.

Then just add the crumbled potatoes and mix very well. You have to add the chopped coriander leaves along with lime juice and mix it well. At the end switches off the heat.

After that take a small part of the mixture and roll it into your desired shapes, dip it in the beaten whites. Repeat the same process with all the remaining mixtures.

Meanwhile, you have to heat oil for deep frying. When the oil is too hot, carefully drop the cutlets in it. Must fry both sides of cutlets till golden brown. Drain onto an absorbent paper.

Ingredients:

• Two tbsp oil for shallow frying
• Two tbsp finely chopped onion
• 250-gram potatoes (boiled, and mashed)
• One tbsp Kashmiri red chili powder
• One tbsp turmeric powder
• One tbsp garam masala powder
• One tbsp roasted cumin powder
• One tbsp chat masala
• One tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
• 2 or 3 pieces of bread soaked in water and then squeeze the water
• Two tbsp gram flour
• One tbsp lime juice
• Two tbsp bread crumbs and ½ cup bread crumbs
• Salt for taste and grind to a coarse paste
• 300-gram fresh prawns
• One tbsp chopped garlic
• One tbsp chopped ginger
• One green chili chopped
• ¼th cup of finely chopped mint leaves
• ¼th cup of the finely chopped coriander leaves
• Two tbsp finely chopped onion

Method #2:

To make the prawn cutlet recipe Bengali style firstly peel the prawn, and then wash it. Combine all the required ingredients for grinding into the common grinder. You have to just ground it to a coarse paste, not to a fine paste.

So, for coarse paste, you just grind for 10 to 15 seconds. In a mixing bowl, you have to combine boiled-mashed potatoes, spice powder, and salt simultaneously. Meanwhile add lime juice along with chopped onion, soaked, squeezed bread, ground coarse paste, and coriander leaves. Just add gram flour to the mixture.

Furthermore, put the bread crumbs and mix them well. The mixture has to be of normal or medium consistency if you feel that it’s too sticky then you can add some more gram flour to it. Moreover, spread bread crumbs on the dish. Rub some oil and shape it into a cutlet according to your desire. Just coat the cutlet with breadcrumbs in a separate dish.

However, you have to heat oil and shallow fry a few cutlets at a time until a golden brown color appears.  Just flip the other side and fry until they all appear golden brown. Please shallow fry the rest of the cutlets. You have to simply Serve Prawns Cutlets Recipe with lime wedges, green chutney, or a side dish with yummy biryani or pulao.

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