Do you like King Prawn curries ?

[whiffey]

Or do you prefer instead to stay with the humble prawn ordinary. King prawn is much more expensive, but it does have that meaty chunkiness and soaks up the spices and flavourings beautifully.

[FluffyFairy]

Too me having a curry with those tiny weeny prawns is just a big waste of time! One bite and they gone. Give me a big fat juicy King Monster Prawn any day!

[redcrx]

if Im cooking with prawns i always use the little tiny ones. Whenever i have bought the king prawns ive found them to be lacking in flavour by comparrison.

Oh and if ordering from the local indian Id never order prawns since i saw them defrosting in a filthy bucket outside the back door once lol

[FluffyFairy]

Ewwwggghhhh seriously redcrx is that true? I ALWAYS order King Prawn curry from our curry house. I avoid chicken as someone once told me they use ... well, not chicken. Now i can't have prawn either. Oh dear. How about the lamb then, anyone have any stories on lamb?

[radiogaga]

well as long as the lamb's not too tough, or chewy with fatty bits, which means its poor quality.

[fine,thanks]

i would never eat prawns anyone else has prepared,

[redcrx]

well its true of the one local to me, yes.

they used to sit out the back preparing a lot of the food, but onions and garlic isnt quite so bad as prawns

[whiffey]

I once had a chicken vindaloo from a local home-delivery, and the meat (if such it was) was slimey and inedible. Mechanically recovered no doubt, scraps of flesh dragged off the carcasses with flails. I binned it and have not used them since. I am moving towards making my own king prawn curries, and so far I have found that frying a large chopped onion in ghee with garlic, adding a jar of sauce (Pataks vindaloo or Lidl madras), simmering, then finally chucking in 250g of frozen King Prawns is very acceptable especially when zapped up with a handful of chopped home-grown hot green chillies.

[puddicat]

want to love prawns but cant, they remind me of wee maggots, maybe king oprawns will sway me

[puddicat]

they were irish prawns

[WoWo]

I'm not bothered either way, the only time I eat King Prawns at a curry house is in Tandoori King Prawn Masalla as they can't really do the small prawns in a Tandoori.

If you are buying the regular size prawns you should go for the value ones, they are no different in quality but are just smaller and about 1/2 the price.

[monkeyeyes]

I knew a medical student who was made ill by a 'chicken' curry he had. Fortunately, he had kept on of the bones he found in his meal as it didn't resemble any bone he had previously seen in a chicken. Somehow he got them tested.........................................................


.....GREEN MONKEY !!!