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In reply to the discussion: Post a favorite easy recipe. [View all]DFW
(54,349 posts)Make up some rice, white or brown, it doesn't matter. Put it to the side.
Get a half pound per person of any combination of the following:
Large scallops (uncooked), cooked large shrimp, cooked lobster meat.
Have on hand: a stick or two of butter, some light olive oil, lemons, some Indian curry powder and a big jar of Major Grey mango chutney.
Sauté the scallops in the olive oil until cooked through. Drain the fluid off.
Melt some of the butter and put in all the fish, simmer on low heat, add the curry powder until seasoned as strongly as you like it, making sure the curry is evenly distributed every time you add some. Add the rest of the butter until melted, and, at the end, a little water, until the shellfish is in a sauce of a consistency to your liking. Squeeze half a lemon over the whole thing, stirring the juice in so it doesn't overpower any part.
Then everyone takes rice to their liking, spoons the curried shellfish over the rice, and spoon a generous portion of the mango chutney onto the side of your plate so you can add just the right amount to balance every bite of the curry.
We had Dutch friends over the last time I made it. The father likes neither fish nor Indian food, but he couldn't get enough of it.