Spicy Prawns - Mediterranean style

Spicy Prawns @Village Corner, Carmel, CA

This photo reminds me of a wonderful summer day we had spent on the Carmel beach and beautiful 17 miles drive. After the lazy walk on the beach, we went for the lunch to Mediterranean Bistro - Village corner and ordered these Spicy Prawns along with Greek gyros. Though the gyros were as usual, we fell in love with these spicy prawns. 

Exactly a year after when we had been to same place again, I just wanted to go to same restaurant and gulp on these spicy prawns. So, after having heavy breakfast we spent beautiful summer day enjoying the pebble beach and 17 mile drive. After we were tired and hungry, we knew our next destination - again Village Corner, to have our favorite spicy prawns. On any normal day or location, we would have surely tried new restaurant or new cuisine, but I can say on that day we planned for Carmel Beach only to gulp on this spicy Prawns.

Now, you would ask me whats so special about this, I can simply say you need to try it out :) and here comes the recipe of these simple but tasty Spicy prawns.

Ingredients

Home made Spicy Prawns 

Prawns -12-15 (if possible leave tail)
Garlic - 10-12 cloves
Red Chilli flakes
Olive oil (it tastes good in olive oil, but if olive oil is not available, you can use any refined oil)
Lemon Juice
Salt 
Fresh Corriander leaves

Marinate the prawns in salt and lemon juice for 30 min.
Cook the prawns and keep aside. [you can fry them directly but if the prawns are not 
Heat the olive oil and add finely chopped garlic and chilli flakes. 
Once the garlic is slightly done, add the prawns and fry them till they are cooked. Garnish it with fresh coriander leaves.

Pod of Dolphins along the pacific coast

To wind up the day, we headed back to Carmel beach to watch the sun set and pod of dolphins along the coast.

Flower in my little garden..

Today morning I was greeted with this beautiful flower in my little garden.

Why I am saying little garden because as of now it just has 3 pots each containing Holy Basil, butterfly-pea climbers and money plant (ivy) :) This is the first flower of my butterfly-pea climbers and I loved it so much that I could not stop myself taking a picture of it and writing a post on it. 

I knew this flower only by its marathi name - Sufali and did a quick google search to get its English name - Buttetfly-pea. Do you know what it's called in other languages?