• Marinade prawns with the listed ingredients to marinade for at least 30 minutes
• Grind  the garlic cloves and sliced coconut into a coarse paste
• To a clay pot add sesame oil and temper with red chilies and curry leaves
• Then add a cup of chopped onions and fry it until it turns golden brown color. Transfer  the onions to a plate  and keep it aside
• To the same clay pot add marinated prawns, sauté for  a  minute.
• Add the ground coarse coconut paste to it , saute well for 3-5 minutes.
• Cover it with a plate and cook on simmer for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, add the sautéed onions and cook for another 5-7 minutes on medium keeping it open
• Prawn chukka is ready to serve.

PRAWN PEPPER FRY

• To a clay pot heat sesame oil and add a tbsp of ginger garlic paste
• Sauté the ginger garlic paste until the raw flavor goes off.
• Add in slit green chili and curry leaves  and then finely chopped shallots .
• Sauté it until it turns translucent.
• Put in salt, turmeric , coriander powder, cumin powder, chili powder and mix well
• Then add in chopped tomato and put the stove on medium
• Cook until the tomato becomes mushy .Add 3/4 cup of water and cook it on a high flame.
• Let it come to a boil. Keep cooking until oil oozes in the corners.
• When the oil oozes , add in the prawns.
• Coat the prawns well with the masala ,  and cook for 5 minutes.
• Finish it off by adding fennel powder and pepper powder and cook it for another 1 minute.
• Prawn pepper fry in claypot is ready to serve