Lentil and Cauliflower Curry
Friday night food frenzy!
After the chia seed pudding (another post, another day) we had a tin of coconut milk in need of use. So that says curry to me.
The household chef took the hint.
He used
Sunflower oil
2 Chopped onions (1red, 1white)
Cinnamon stick
Fenugreek seeds 1tsp
3 Cardamom pods (crushed)
Garum masala 2 tsps
Lentils 1 cup
2 large Fresh Tomatoes (chopped)
2 cloves Garlic
4 small Potatoes diced, peeled
1 small cauliflower separated into florets
I dried red Chilli
I onion stock cube in about 250ml hot water
He fried the dried spices in the oil adding a splash of water to prevent burning. Then added the onion and sautéed it until soft.
Introduce the lentils briefly.
Then he added the tomatoes and coconut to create a more liquid base. This was increased with the stock.
The potatoes need to cook in the liquid. After a few minutes add the cauliflower so it will steam slightly while utilising the heat of the liquid too.
After a few minutes simmering, he remembers he forgot to add the garlic so in it goes. And the chilli also joined the party near the end.
We ate it with gluten free popadoms. The second day it will be even tastier!
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Reblogged this on Linda's wildlife garden and commented:
awesome post Liz thank you for sharing
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Looks good. Love the world of Indian cooking, we did a cabbage dish which smelled like grilled bacon as it cooked…didn’t taste like it, but really confused the senses!
Second day curry….with you on that one Liz.
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Cheers. It was delicious.
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Reblogged this on Janners Mugs Customised Mugs Specialist and commented:
Fancy some food?
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I need to find out how this works…It says I was successful…but it appears not!
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That’s strange. Sometimes it asks me before others can reblog. I’ll check.
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Looks authorised this end.
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Cinnamon… interesting! will give it a shot, Thank you 🙂 🙂
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I think cinnamon might be one of the ingrdients in the mixed spice garamasala.
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It may be. I didn’t check.
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I know in India some curries have a cinnamon stick added to them. I have used garamasala for years but I seem to remember the taste is a bit cinnamony.
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Yum two of my favorite foods!
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It’s very tasty.
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I love curry – my ex-husband is from Pakistan, so I learned from him. Now, I’ve worked out how to do them in the slow cooker as well 🙂
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That’s a good idea. Do share your top tips for the pressure cooker please.
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Oh, a slow cooker is different from a pressure cooker – pretty much the opposite of each other – and running one is very cheap (ie very little electricity is needed).
I generally make Kashmiri curries, which don’t have coconut milk. They are really easy. My favourite is cauliflower with potatoes but I think with lentils would be great too. Made one with lentils and chard the other day 🙂
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Don’t know why I wrote pressure. Think my brain was in autopilot. Do you start with all the ingredients raw? Or start off with a normal cooking process and then let it work overnight?
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I’ve got two slow cookers – one is much faster than the other so with the faster one I only ever use it during the day, otherwise stuff would burn overnight.
Anyway, whatever the timings, here is the process:
1. Put oil in the cooker and soft the onions.
2. Add the spices to cook for a while.
3. Add tomatoes and fresh chillies + green pepper (the chilli and green peppers only when seasonally available).
4. When these have all cooked a while add beans and water and any veg.
If I’m not using beans, I don’t add much water, if any. Maybe just some more oil.
Then I leave the while to cook for as long as it needs.
Do you have a slow cooker?
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We borrows one a while ago. I like the sound of this. Might give it a try. Thank you very much : )
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I think slow cookers are great in so many ways. I have even worked out how to do jacket and roast potatoes in mine now 🙂
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I cook potatoes in my bread oven. It’s such a small oven. It’s more efficient.
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Sounds good. I’ve got a breadmaker – if I took the blade out, I guess I could cook all sorts in that too…. That’s got me thinking now lol.
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I make cake with mine too. Carrot cake and beetroot and chocolate work really well. Mine has a bake setting when it doesn’t do any mixing. It just bakes.
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I have a bake setting but there might be things that would be better mixed before going in the machine, so your machine sounds great!
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The mixing process is good. I think it’s Ina cake setting.
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Ina?
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On a ? Has a ? Was a ?
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You wrote ‘Ina’ in your last reply and I wondered what that referred to.
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I tried to work out what I meant. Autocorrect is funny!
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Yes lol! No worries…
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Hope you enjoy both the process and the product, anyway 🙂
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I must try it. Your instructions are very straightforward.
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Thank you. It’s just a matter of knowing your cooker for timings.
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The stick wasn’t too cinnamony!
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Oh my English white bread, no spice stomach wouldn’t like it… I miss out on a lot of good food
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It might be the white bread that disagrees and not the spice….
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I don’t eat white bread, but it understand what you are saying
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Ah ha! : )
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Sounds nice 🙂
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It didn’t last very long : )
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