Simple Prawn, Mushroom and Spinach Curry

Published 22 April, 2016 Updated 22 March, 2024 65 Comments

Simple Prawn, Spinach & Mushroom Curry is perfect for a fakeaway or easy midweek meal. Can be made mild enough for the whole family to enjoy and is sweetened with coconut milk made with coconut milk powder

Today I’m bringing you a Simple Prawn, Mushroom and Spinach Curry!

There’s a thriving trade in jarred curry sauces but I have to admit that I got to the stage that I was adding so many of my own ingredients to tart them up that I may as well have been making them from scratch. So that is what I do now.

If you have a few basic essentials to hand you’re never far away from a tasty curry!

These essentials include onion, garlic, and ginger root (which I now buy pre-prepared frozen in blocks, look in the world food freezer aisle), curry powder or paste, coconut milk powder, and tinned tomatoes.

With these building blocks, all you then need to add is your favourite meat, fish, veggies, and or pulses.

So the other night I made this Simple Prawn, Mushroom and Spinach curry with prawns and spinach from my freezer and a pack of mushrooms because those were the ingredients I had to hand.

A tip for defrosting prawns is to spread them out on a plate and put them in your fan oven with just the fan running – it takes about 15 – 20 minutes for them to thaw this way.

I have also been known to just throw the frozen prawns straight into a curry, but you need to cook them for longer as they will give off some extra water too.

If you were cooking this curry for young children then I would pick a mild curry powder but as my two are quite old now the medium heat of this curry was well received and all 4 of my family’s plates were emptied very quickly.

Well apart from my daughter who has decided she doesn’t like prawns and of course the one she chose to eat had a bit of shell stuck to it. Hence, a circle of rejected prawns around the outside of her plate!

These prawn producers have a lot to answer for, I remember my son loved prawns as a small child and liked nothing better than a prawn sandwich.

Then one day he had one with a bit of shell on it and he never wanted to eat prawns again. I’ve gradually weaned him back onto them but they’ll never be a favourite like they once were!

So I hope this has inspired you to make your own curry if you usually reach out for a jar as it’s just a lot cheaper and more satisfying and you know exactly what ingredients you’re eating when you make a dish from scratch!

More Curry Recipes

For more recipe inspiration you might like these curries from fellow bloggers:

Quick & Spicy Prawn Curry – Fab Food 4 All
Mushroom, Spinach & Chickpea Curry – Fab Food 4 All
Vegetable Dhal Curry – Fab Food 4 All
Easy Slow Cooker Beef Curry – Fab Food 4 All
Mutton Kofta Curry – Fab Food 4 All
Slow Cooker Duck & Plantain Curry – Recipes from a Pantry
Fruity Chicken Curry – Munchies & Munchkins
Turkey Keema Curry – Foodie Quine
Quinoa Cauliflower and Butternut Squash Curry – Unconditionally Nourished
Green Tomato & Onion Curry – Gujarati Girl

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