Anytime I am bored with the weeknight simple dinner of rice and dal(lentils), I reach out for that shrimp in my freezer! Just do a quick marinade with red chili, turmeric,salt and coconut oil and then shallow fry them in a pan. Now that certainly makes my normally ‘oh so fussy’, ultra slow and picky eater of a daughter finish her meal in a jiffy! My son loves it too of course and so do my husband and I. This past week we had a lot of the Onam sadya leftovers from last weekend – I for one was really glad that I did not need to cook this week at all. All I needed to do was to cook rice and then pull randomly any two of the sadya dishes out of the refrigerator! Seeing how I was in a good and relaxed mood every weeknight when he got home, hubby commented ‘Maybe you should do this every weekend!’. ‘yeah, maybe I said’ vaguely…but I knew I didn’t want to spend 4-5 hours at a stretch every weekend cooking as much as I love cooking.!
So anyways on the 5th night of the Onam leftover specials was when I decided to pull some shrimp out of the freezer too to help make things interesting for all of us since my ‘ever so compliant’ family had gotten to look a little blasé with the ‘repeat’ Onam telecasts! 🙂 And I thought of baking them this time and making it extra spicy and then as an afterthought, thought … ‘Why not coat with coconut?’ Gave some thought (too much thinking hey?…had too much time on my hand after all! 🙂 ) as to how I could accomplish both goals – keep it spicy as well as add the coconut…and finally decided that it was best to half-bake the spicy shrimp first and then do the coating layer so it would still be spicy inside and sweet and ‘coconutty’ on the outside. I also made a quick sweet and spicy dip to go with it. Happy to report that this did work and very splendidly too since they were half-gone before I could place dinner on the table. 🙂
Also bringing these fiesty shrimp to the weekly Fiesta Friday hosted by the lovely and extremely talented Angie of The Novice Gardener.
I made shrimps with coconut too – delicious! 🙂
These look & sounds perfect.
We love shrimp! These would make a great appetizer!
These look incredible, Indu! I love that they are spicy and have a spicy dipping sauce, too.
thanks Shari. Yes we loved the sauce becos it was sweet and spicy so was a nice balance with the spicy shrimp!
Sounds delicious, Indu…and those photos? Tempting!
thanks Nancy! Yes they are tempting aren’t they? I always find shrimp hard to resist! 🙂
This shrimp looks very tasty, Indu! Love the coconut coating on it and how crispy you got them.
Hey Ngan! yes these came out nice and toasty on the outside and still soft on the inside! 🙂
Looks amazing. 🙂
thanks Ronit. Yes you can’t go wrong with shrimp right? 🙂
Oh this looks really interesting. Shall try it 🙂
Hi there! Nice to see you after a long time! thanks for stopping by and hope you like it! 🙂
Yum yum yum Indu! Mouth watering here, though I just had breakfast, haha!
ha ha yes hard to resist shrimp right? 🙂
Yum!
thanks! 🙂
These get my vote! I’m always looking for new shrimp recipes and I will try these! Very yummy!
Hey Julianna, I think you will like this! Let me know! 🙂
Spicy coconut prawns? What could be more delicious than that?? They look amazing! 🙂
thanks Margot! Yes they were very tasty! 🙂
Yum!!!
thanks Lori 🙂
I bet they have to be amazing!!!
Hi Margerhita, yes they were delicious and quick to go! 🙂
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