Jono & Jules do food & wine

An easy weeknight curry and perfect for using up that bag of frozen prawns in the freezer. Serve with steamed rice.

Wine Suggestion: As it was a hot night and we needed cooling down, a bottle of beer (Peroni to be precise) from the fridge hit the spot with this. Refreshing and we just like beer with curry.

Prawn & Spinach Curry – serves 4

• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp hot curry paste (we like Patak’s Madras)
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 300ml vegetable stock
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 200g carton creamed coconut
• 400g raw peeled tiger prawns, defrosted
• 250g baby spinach leaves
• large handful of frozen peas
• bunch of coriander, roughly chopped

Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onions for about 5 minutes to soften, then stir in the curry paste and fry for another minute. Add the tomatoes, stock, sugar, and coconut cream, then season. Cook gently for 15 minutes until thickened.

Add the prawns and spinach, then cook for a few minutes. Stir in the peas and heat for another few minutes. Sprinkle with coriander and serve with steamed rice.

(Original recipe from BBC Good Food Magazine, July, 2005)