More with Prawns

Prawn Mayonnaise was another 2010 discovery. I am amazed that a foodie like me never tasted this simple and glorious food before the Christmas Day in 2009 (tailend of the year, almost 2010). It's creamy, delicious, soft feel makes me roll my tongue and close my eyes, savour it again in my head at this moment. Then on New year's eve yet another surprise. Same prawn, only this time with a wasabi flavoured mayonnaise. Yet another glorious taste. A one night stand , but a flavour that reminds me of the word Selamanya (thats "forever" in Bahasa Indonesia). So on 5th Jan 2010, I check my freezer and come upon few nice healthy prawns. They did not appear there by magic. The weekend shopping was filled with thoughts of the glorious mayonnaise prawns and so I inevitably picked some and slipped them into my shopping cart.

That evening of Jan 5th (nothing significant about the date), after my encounter with the hourlong macet, I came home and  to cheer myself up, decided to cook the prawns. Thus the trip to the freezer. After the prawns were nicely thawed, I added a pinch of salt and eyed them with anticipation. Well, disappointment soon followed, as I did not find any mayonnaise or wasabi in my refrigerator. I so wished that they would appear there by some magic. Plain forgetfullness.

With all my Indian optimism, whatever that means, I tried to resurrects the situation. I am not usually good at this resurrection business, but it in situation of cooking crisis, I am mostly triumphant. I doused the prawns with turmeric powder, crushed few peanuts into coarse grained power (use a handy small blender), coated the prawns with the peanut powder. This is tricky and difficult , so a little bit of sticking material, like flour will help. Then did a quick shallow fry, very shallow, with few drops of oil in a non-stick pan (keeping it healthy). Then used plain yogurt, few mint leaves, few coriander leaves, blended them to form a 'indianised' version of mayonnaise. Well the result was amazing.
At dinner time, as we indulged with the prawns similar smiles lingered on my hubby's face and mine. We were falling in love again (with the prawns , of course). Thus another glorious taste was entered to the taste-database in my memory bank (my tongue's memory bank to be precise)