Curried Prawns In Pineapples

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs medium shrimp, cooked, peeled and deveined
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion, coarsely chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped chives, divided
• 2 tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
• 2 tablespoons curry powder, sri lankan syle is best for this
• 1 1/4 cups fish stock or 1 1/4 cups chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 2 medium pineapple

Recipe

• 1 heat oil in pan and add onion and 2 tablespoons chives, tomato, and curry powder.
• 2 cook 5 minutes without browning.
• 3 add stock and simmer 5 minutes or so.
• 4 remove from heat.
• 5 blend butter and flour together and add in small pieces to sauce, stirring until smooth.
• 6 add prawns and cook gently until just pink, 3 to 5 minutes.
• 7 now add salt, pepper and hot sauce if desired, to your taste.
• 8 meantime, plunge the pineapples into boiling water for 3 minutes and drain.
• 9 halve them exactly down the center, leaving some leaves intact on each half.
• 10 hollow out some of the flesh and fill the hollows with prawn mixture.
• 11 sprinkle with remaining chives.
• 12 allow 1/2 pineapple per person.