John Torode served up a tasty Sri Lankan sour prawn curry with tamarind and a coconut salad on This Morning.
The ingredients are: 1kg raw king prawns, shell on, tail peeled, 1 tsp ground black pepper, 1 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp curry powder, 2 tbsp veg oil, 5cm piece of pandan leaf, roughly chopped or torn (optional), big handful of fresh curry leaves, 2 small shallots, sliced, 2 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped, thumb of ginger, peeled and crushed, 1 tbsp dried chilli flakes, 2 very ripe tomatoes chopped, salt, 50ml black tamarind (or use 1 tsp vinegar in 50ml water), 1 small green pepper (or malu miris), seeds removed, sliced and small amount of jaggery (brown sugar).
See John’s recipes in his book titled: My Kind of Food: Recipes I Love to Cook at Home available from Amazon now.