PRAWN WITH COCONUT MILK (UDANG MASAK LEMAK CILI API)

Ingredients :
1 kg tiger prawns
15 bird eyes chillie*
3 shallots*
2 lemon Grass
1 candle nut (buah keras)*
1 inch fresh tumeric*
2 asam keping
2 cups thick coconut milk
2 pieces tumeric leaves
3 fresh tomatoes ~ quartered salt to taste

Method :
1. Pound/blend all the * ingredients.
2. Put all the ingredients except the tomatoes, asam keping n tumeric leaves
in a pot and let it boil.
3. Add in the tomato and taste the salt.
4. Serve with plain white rice.

Note :

1.The tomatoes can also be replaced with sliced pineapples for that tangy taste.
2. Prawn can be substituted with crab, fish, squid, fish balls, terung, bendi, cockles n young bamboo shoots .. try jgn tak try!