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Shrimp curry

Indonesian, Indo-Portuguese and Thai curry dish

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Shrimp curry

Alternative names	Prawn curry
Region or state	Southeast Asia, Lusophone
Associated cuisine	Burmese, Indonesian, Indo-Portuguese, Mozambican, and Thai cuisines
Main ingredients	Shrimp and aromatics

Shrimp curry (Portuguese: caril de camarão, Indonesian: 'gulai udang or kari udang), also known as prawn curry, is a typical curry dish of Burmese cuisine, Indonesian cuisineinIndonesia (Aceh and West Sumatra), Indo-Portuguese cuisineinIndia (Goa) and Portugal, Mozambican cuisineinMozambique and Thai cuisineinThailand (Phuket).

As the name suggests, this is a dish prepared with shrimp (locally also referred to as prawn), typically cooked in a thick sauce of a yellow hue. Among other ingredients are grated coconut, turmeric, cumin, coriander, chilli, onion, garlic, tamarind, vinegar, sugar and salt. It is usually accompanied by white rice.

InBurmese cuisine, prawn sibyan (ပုစွန်ဆီပြန်) is a traditional Burmese curry of whole prawns cooked in a sibyan gravy of aromatics and shrimp oil (ပုစွန်ဆီ), which is similar to tomalley.

InIndonesia, this dish is known and quite popular in SumatraofAcehnese, Minangkabau and Malay cuisine.^[1]

InPortugal, the dish can be found on the menus of Goan and Mozambican restaurants.

See also[edit]

• Caril de camarão com quiabos (shrimp curry with okra) in the Portuguese Wikipedia
• Curry
• List of shrimp dishes

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