A good quality, cleaned and dried small shrimps are avaiable in the market now a days to make this delicious condiment, which will go so well with kanji / rice porridge or can be squished with some rice and had. In the past, chammanthi's are ground to chammanthi form using ammi kallu. But now in modern life style, blender / grinder will have to do. Using ammi kallu to preapare chammanthi, will brings out unique flavors, which a modern day grinder might not.Ingredients
1 cup - Dried small shrimps
8 to 10 - Dried whole red chilies
1/2 cup - Freshly grated coconut
5 flakes - Garlic
small piece - Ginger
A small marble size - Seedless tamarind
2 sprigs - Curry leaves
Salt to taste
Method
1 ) Heat a pan with little coconut oil, add dried shrimps, red chilies and on a low flame fry, taking care not to burn the ingredients till the shrimps are fried and cooked in that low flame. Take off the stove and cool.
2 ) Add to a blender / grinder, the fried ingredients, run the blender and powder the shrimp and chilies. Then add garlic, ginger, curry leaves, tamarind, coconut and salt to taste. Run the blender and grind all the ingredients well to a coarse mixture.
Serve as a side dish with kanji or rice.
17 comments:
Ohhhhhh i am drooling here. When i was still living at home we used to have this sometimes with hot kanji. Just the thouguth make me home sick.
Would love to grab that chammanthi from the screen
Havent had these..looks delicious.
Wow, Pravs! Sounds absolutely awesome! Where do you get dried shrimp from, out of curiosity? Am slowly getting back to blogging now. :)
Happy cook : pleasant memories right ? :)) lovely combo with kanji.
Divya : it will delight you if you try :)
Kalai : its nice to see you around :) Mostly found them in asian stores and indian stores. To get good dry shrimps is a deal.
It seems as if its beeen everrr soo lonnnng since I last visited you! This post is absolutely fantastic..I have yet to learn to cook dried fish. The pic is drool worthy, Pravs!
Looks very yummy!
Hi Pravs..
This is one of my all time favourite .Love this chammathy with kanji ..In our place we never used tamarind with prawns..hmm have to try this version also ...last week i tried to make this delicious chammanthy seeing mishmash`s post, and stopped in the beginning itself ....I did nt get the roasted prawns and u can just imagine the smell while roasting ,tht too in a flat in dubai ...!! My 4 year old son was saying ayyee ayyee... :(
so parcel me k ...alleel kothy varum ..
love
veena
quite uniue dish with shrimps.....so u used the small indian veriety shrimp....?
Chemmeen Chammanthi looks really good. Time permitting I still use my granite motor and pestle to make them. In my opinion, something about using these tools make the dish taste even better. Like veena said we also don't use tamarind with the chemeen chammanthi. Have to try your version.
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Purnima : may be because i am not posting more often now a days you feel so :)
Dried shrimps will be a good one to start with.
Pecos : Thanks :)
Veena : Oh yeah, in such situations it will be best to buy roasted shrimps. This will make work easy :) parcel on the way :)
Raaji : yes i used the small dried shrimp. do try :)
My comfort food network : I agree totally. There is something magical in those ammi kallu...enhances the taste so much.
Tamarind will add to the taste of this chammanthi. Do try.
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love
veena
this looks mouthwatering..a good combo for kanji.
An award waiting for u.
Wow....your post reminded me of home :( We used to have this in Mangalore with kanji...simply heavenly!
Sandra from Brazil. I loved your blog, I am crazy about Indian food.
Thank you for the receipts.
Awesome ! Thanks for posting this great recipe :)
Thanks for this. I made it today. Was lovely!
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