Prawns or anything similar, no matter how large they look, will just shrink during the cooking. use King or Tiger Prawns, though the dish would work very well with other fish or even Chicken (Murgh Makhani). If you can find whole Prawns then it would really boost the flavor of this dish.
- Add whole garam masala in the muslin cloth and tie it.Heat butter in a pressure cooker and put the garam masala sachet in it, add onions cashew nuts, sauteit for 5 minutes.
- Then add salt, ginger garlic paste, cook this till raw flavour is gone. Add colour giving chilli or Kashmiri red chilly, green chilly, tomatoes, mix it well and put the lid on and let it cook for 15 to 20 minutes in a slow flame (5 to 6 whistles).
- Let it cool down, remove the sachet amp; using strainer drain out the water and put the onion and tomato into the blender and blend them and make a paste and again strain it, after straining all, discard the seeds and peels of tomato.
- Cook the strained paste of tomatoes and onions for 20 minutes then add salt, sugar as required, mix it and add toasted kasoori methi (crush it with hands) once it comes to boil switch off the flame.
- Cool it and store in small containers in refrigeration conditions. Use this Makhani gravy in many veg and non-veg dishes.
- Take a plate add all purpose flour, salt, garam masala powder mix it.
- Coat the shrimps with all purpose flour mixture and dip it into the egg and coat with bread crumbs and deep fry them till golden in colour.
- Heat a pan add makhani gravy and add salt, cream, mix it well.
Serve this Makhani gravy with shrimps and rice.