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- Newsgroups: rec.food.veg.cooking,rec.food.recipes,rec.food.veg
- From: mbhpfpj@meehpd.ee.man.ac.uk (Paul Floyd)
- Subject: LACTO: Mixed Vegetable Curry
- Message-ID: <1994Feb18.140742.2246@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 15:52:24 GMT
- Archive-Name: lacto/mixed-veg-curry
-
- Perhaps this is not so much a recipe, but general advice on making better
- curries, or at least, things I have found make the curries I cook better.
-
- Preparation: <=40minutes, cooking 30minutes
- Washing up: 1 large saucepan, 1 large frying pan, 1 casserole dish,
- 1 saucepan for part-cooking "hard" vegetables plus pan(s) for rice &
- poppadoms
-
- Ingredients: (2 large servings)
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon ginger, chopped finely
- butter or ghee
- Vegetables as available: e.g.
- Courgette, Mushrooms, Carrot, Celery, Potato
- (Carrots, Potatoes should be par-boiled)
- Red Lentils
- Curry powder. I make my own - will post recipe if requested.
- 1 medium tin of tomatoes.
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree.
-
- (optional)
- Coriander leaf, cut finely.
- Creamed coconut. Tinned is best, then the butter blocks.
- I find dessicated unsatisfactory. Haven't tried real
- coconut - too fiddly.
-
- Directions:
- Fry the onion, garlic (pressed) and ginger in a large frying pan with
- a knob of butter or ghee (vegans could use vegetable oil). Cook until
- softened but not brown. Make a paste of the curry powder by adding water,
- and add the paste to the onions. Simmer for about 10 minutes, adding
- more water if needed. Meanwhile, chop the vegatables into small
- pieces (and half cook any that need longer cooking times). Heat the
- vegetables in a large saucepan with another knob of ghee/butter.
- At the same time, add the chopped tomatoes and tomato puree to
- the onion/curry mix, and also add the coconut and/or coriander.
- Add the lentils to the vegetables. Preheat the oven to Gas 4. Allow the
- sauce in the frying pan to simmer, and keep stirring the vegetables in the
- saucepan, for about 10 minutes. If you don't stir the vegetables, then the
- lentils will become permanently fixed to the saucepan. Add more butter/ghee
- if necessary. Mix the sauce and the vegetables in the sacepan, then
- pour into a casserole dish. Put into the oven for about 30 minutes.
- While that is cooking, prepare the rice/poppadoms/naan bread etc.
-
- I think the crucial factor is: don't boil a curry!!!
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