Prawns Balchão

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Yatra: A culinary journey across India

By Rohit Ghai

Published 2025

  • About

This fiery prawn/shrimp dish is a delicacy from Goan cuisine, and is similar to a pickle. Balchão is a method of cooking in a spicy and sour tomato-chilli sauce – it is also frequently used with fish or pork. This simple, quick recipe can be made in advance and kept refrigerated for a couple of days in an airtight container. Serve warm as a main course with rice. If you prefer, you can use fresh tiny shrimp and the resulting dish will be more like a side dish or chutney that can be s