Balchao Goan Style

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs shrimp, cleaned and deveined (small to medium sized)
• 4 tablespoons oil
• 2 large onions, minced
• 3 large tomatoes, minced
• 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced
• 12 dried red chilies
• 1 tablespoon cumin seed
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 (2 inch) cinnamon sticks
• 10 cloves
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• salt, to taste

Recipe

• 1 put the shrimp in a large bowl and sprinkle salt on them. set aside.
• 2 roast the dry red chillies, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, cloves and cinnamon till they begin to release their aroma. take off the fire and cool.
• 3 grind or blend the ginger, garlic and roasted spices into a smooth paste using the vinegar.
• 4 heat the oil on a medium heat in a wok style pan or frying pan. add the shrimp and stir fry till opaque (1-2 min). remove from the pan and set aside.
• 5 in the same pan, fry the onions till light brown (8-10 min). add the tomato and fry till soft.
• 6 add the spice-vinegar paste, sugar and salt to taste and fry till the oil begins to separate from the masala.
• 7 add the shrimp to this masala, mix well and cook for 3 minutes.
• 8 serve with piping hot, plain boiled rice.