We went to St. Lucia for our honeymoon I had been to the Caribbean before but never to St. Lucia. I loved all the fresh fish we ate, we found this great little restaurant one night recommended by a local, wow!! the food was so good. When we got back I experimented with loads of the different dishes that we had tried, to come up with similar tasting recipes. Things like crab backs, stuffed red snapper and my husbands favourite callaloo soup. Here is a curried prawn recipe I have made a few times.

Ingredients

olive oil
850g uncooked prawns (shelled and de-veined)
juice of 1 lime
1 onion, chopped finely
2 Tomatoes, skinned and chopped
2 Tablespoons curry powder (I use 1 tablespoons normal curry powder and 1 tablespoon hot curry powder because I like a bit of a kick so adjust for your personal taste.)
1 Teaspoon fish stock
1 Tablespoon fresh chives, chopped
2 Pineapples
300ml water
250 ml coconut milk
1 Teaspoon cornflour
Chopped chives (extra for garnish)

Method

1. Place shelled, de-veined prawns in a bowl and squeeze lime juice over them, set to one side.

2. Heat about 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan add onion and chopped chives, cook over medium heat until onions are soft. Add tomatoes and curry powder and continue cooking for a few minutes, stirring constantly.

3. Add fish stock powder, water, coconut milk and prawns simmer over low heat for 15-20 Min’s. Add a little water to the cornflour mix and pour into prawn mixture, stir until mixture thickens.

4. Plunge the pineapples into boiling water for 3 minutes, drain. Cut them in half lengthways and hollow out flesh, as you are removing flesh there will be juice from the pineapple lying at the bottom. Add the juice from one pineapple to curry mixture.

5. Cut the flesh of the pineapple discarding hard core, add soft pineapple chunks from 1 pineapple to curry. (depending on size of pineapple you may want to add both if they are quite small.)

6. Heat curry through and spoon curry mixture back into hollowed-out-pineapples sprinkle with chopped chives. Serve with rice.

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