I had my wisdom teeth removed a couple of weeks ago and my mum came to visit me with some soft mango (“Make a lovely smoothie with it, love!”) (hi mum), but the muscle co-ordination needed to negotiate a lovely chunky mango smoothie was just a bit beyond me and so we had a curry instead, obviously.
Although I didn’t grow up in the kind of household that mixed fruit into savoury dishes (as per my anti-Coronation Chicken predilections detailed in Friday Night Lights:Chicken Goat’s Cheese and Avocado Salad), I have grown to really appreciate a layer of sweetness in dishes as a respite from savoury.
Nigella, who does have some fairly interesting tendencies towards mixing the most unhealthy (but delicious) of sweet and savoury items, came through for me in a big way with her recipe for red prawn and mango curry. This dish has to be eaten to be believed. When CB first pointed it out years ago, I was highly skeptical: I like butternut squash and sweet potato well enough, but I have an inherent and irrational suspicion of any sort of curry with potatoes. There’s something about the mixing of potatoes and rice that doesn’t quite sit with me – the old chicken curry half and half and I never quite saw eye to eye.
Regardless, I pressed on, and here we are today.
We serve this with thin rice noodles but I think this will also go well with glass noodles, egg noodles or rice. It’s a fantastic and quick weeknight meal. The taste of this will never quite leave you and trust me, you won’t leave it either!
Serves 3-4
Ingredients
1 tablespoon groundnut oil
4 spring onions (finely sliced)
2 tablespoons red thai curry paste (this is our favourite brand)
400 ml coconut milk
250 ml chicken stock
2 teaspoons fish sauce
350 grams diced butternut squash and sweet potato (get a bag of pre-diced potato/squash and save hassle and time)
200g frozen king prawns
1 teaspoon lime juice
150 grams cubed mangos
3-4 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
To serve:
Noodles of your choice
Method
Head the oil in a pan and sauté the spring onions in the ground nut oil for a minute or so. Add the curry paste with two tablespoons of the coconut milk and stir.
After a few minutes, the paste will release its aromas and your kitchen will smell wonderful. Add in the rest of the coconut milk, the stock and the fish sauce and bring it to boil.
Add the butternut squash and sweet potato and simmer for around 15 minute or until soft (could be up to 20-25 minutes). To cut the simmering time, chop the sweet potato and butternut squash into fairly small cubes (this is where the pre-diced ingredients comes in handy).
Once soft, add the prawns and bring the pot back to the boil then add the lime juice and mango. Cook for a minute, until the prawns are cooked through, and serve over your starch of choice. Garnish with coriander and slices of lime.
This meal will also be delicious by itself as a low(er) carb option.
I’m taking this recipe over to Fiesta Friday #28 co-hosted by Margot and Saucy. I highly recommend checking out the other recipes there too!
MAD AVOCADO 
Mango-Red Curry is one of my FAVORITE dishes!! This looks wonderful 🙂
Thank you!! I was very delicious 🙂
I’m getting 2/3 of my wisdom teeth out in 2 hours! I didn’t think of eating curry as an option though. This recipe looks delicious. Thanks for sharing, and happy FF! 🙂
Eating curry is 100% not really an option, I was just being stubborn and quite silly about using up the soft mango!! Hope your procedure went ok? Happy FF! (although we’re almost there again already…)
Thanks! It went really well! I still have the October extraction for the last one. But, I didn’t swell or need ice or anything, so curry may have been an option in the end. 🙂
So you’ll know for next time..!
Heavenly! I have bookmarked this!! 😀
Amazing, thanks! I hope you like it 🙂
Love this recipe, thanks so much for bringing it to the party! You have a wonderful blog…happy FF! 🙂
Thank you!! That’s very kind of you to say 🙂
My Indonesian licking not used with fruity savoury dish, but i guess this recipe sounds a great idea…
btw, don’t forget to made a recall visit if any simptom showing up following the wisdom teeth removal….
Ha, thanks! No, the teeth healed up just fine and I was glad to have such a tasty distraction from the pain 🙂 thanks for stopping by.
Who can say no to a good Thai curry? I’ve also come to love the addition of fruit to spicy and savoury dishes. This curry looks so delicious, thank you for bringing it to Fiesta Friday this week. Enjoy the party! 🙂
Thank you Saucy! and for the hosting, loving FF 🙂 The curry is so yummy and more-ish. I can’t get enough 🙂
Mangoes and prawns make such a fabulous match (a taste of the tropics!) and tossed through in a red curry – even better! I totally love the sound of this dish. Thanks so much for sharing with the FF crowd – what a delight!
Margot, thanks again for hosting FF! And thank you for your kind comment 🙂 I can’t wait to do more fruit and curry mixes…
Mango and prawns, a combo I never tried. Look fantastic!
Thank you 🙂
What a great combination, I love mango in any curry but I have never eaten it with sweet potato and butternut as well, it looks great
It is really yummy and it’s good even without rice or noodles because of the starchy sweet potato and butternut squash – I hope you like it if you give it a go 🙂
Oh my goodness this looks so good and summery. I love most anything mango, but adding the curry and prawns sounds amazing!
Katherine, it was really nice and really fantastic for summer without being too heavy! Thanks for stopping by!
Fab combination! Delicious!
Thank you!!
This looks so good – absolutely mouth watering! I can almost imagine all the flavors you have going on here! Lovely!
mmmm I can almost remember how it tasted too 🙂 definitely one to batch make…. Thanks for stopping by!
Shrimp, curry and mango are so delish together. Thanks for sharing this combo at #theWeekendSocial. YUM! Pinned. Hope to see you again Thursday 9:00 PM EST.
Thanks KC!!! Love the Weekend Social, hope to join again this week 🙂