March 12, 2007: Punjab Spinach Vegetable Curry

Continuing our celebration of SBS's Hooray for Bollywood series, nosotros settled inwards on Mon nighttime alongside 'The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey' together with this curry. Again, the inspiration came from Camellia Panjabi's '50 Great Curries of India', a mass that is focussed predominantly on meaty curries. Luckily, the curry sauces all audio wonderful, together with tin easily hold upwards applied to vegetarian alternatives. The reason of tonight's curry was a lamb spinach curry, alongside a marinade together with a spinachy sauce. We swapped lamb for vegies, mainly potato, alongside a few mushrooms together with carrots for coloring together with variety. I mean value nosotros went a fight overboard on the spuds, therefore the marinade together with spices had likewise much locomote to produce to spread their flavours fully around, leaving the whole affair a niggling blander than I'd like. Luckily we're good stocked alongside chutneys together with pickles to liven things upwards - it would create got been difficult going to larn through dinner together with iii lunches of slightly tasteless curry. I mean value nosotros could likely become alongside something to a greater extent than suited to a marinade adjacent fourth dimension - tofu or seitan or something, together with pay a niggling to a greater extent than attending to the sauce-to-solids ratio to ensure the season at the destination justifies all the difficult work.

Punjab spinach vegetable curry

3 potatoes, peeled together with chopped
2 cups mushrooms, halved
2 carrots, diced
3 cloves garlic
2 light-green chillies
2 inch slice of fresh ginger
200ml yoghurt
2 teaspoons cumin
200g spinach leaves, washed
2 bay leaves
6 cardamom pods
2 cloves
2 medium onions, chopped
1 teaspoon coriander powder
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
3 tablespoons love apple tree paste
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil

To brand the marinade, puree the yoghurt, ginger, garlic together with chillies inwards a nutrient processor, along alongside i teaspoon of the cumin powder. Marinate the carrots, mushrooms together with potatoes inwards this mixture for equally long equally possible - nosotros gave it nearly an hour, but it could create got done alongside longer.

The adjacent footstep is to assort out the spinach - you'll postulate to launder your nutrient processor inwards betwixt these steps therefore y'all tin puree the spinach into a liquidy mush. First of all, blanch the spinach for a few seconds inwards roughly boiling H2O together with therefore drain it. Then zap inwards the nutrient processor together with you're fix to go.

Heat the stone oil inwards a large pot over medium heat. Throw inwards the bay leaves, cardamom together with cloves together with small-scale fry for a infinitesimal or two. Add inwards the onions together with small-scale fry for nearly xv minutes, until they're overnice together with soft.

Add the corainder pulverization together with the cumin pulverization together with a splash of water. Stir everything together together with fix for a few to a greater extent than minutes. Tip inwards the marinated vegetables together with fix for nearly 5 minutes, until everything is good combined. Add inwards the love apple tree glue together with the chopped tomatoes, along alongside a loving cup of hot H2O together with the salt.

Simmer for equally long equally it takes for the murphy to become overnice together with soft - nearly one-half an lx minutes or so. Add inwards the spinach puree together with stir everything together for a span to a greater extent than minutes of cooking. When it's all done, serve it upwards on freshly fried roti breadstuff alongside a few spoons of chilli together with lime pickle together with settle inwards for iii hours of Bollywood entertainment.