August 17, 2010: 'Lamb' Korma Pilaf

Global Green alongside a handbag of faux-lamb together with a plan. She'd been excited almost Camellia Panjabi's lamb pilaf for some fourth dimension together with a handbag of frozen 'lamb' seemed similar the perfect excuse to give it a try. We supplemented the faux substance alongside a handful of mushrooms together with otherwise stuck reasonably about the recipe.  It's a fair chip of work, although I managed to crush it inwards pre-netball on a Tuesday nighttime (give yourself ninety minutes or hence I guess). The results? Aromatic together with amazingly amount of flavor but texturally a chip challenging - the mistaken lamb turned out much tougher than nosotros hoped, making the repast authentically chewy. Still, the combination of the rich clove together with cinnamon flavours together with the sharper chilli together with ginger bite, made this a winning recipe. We're already plotting to convey some other shot at this alongside a less meaty filling - perchance simply mushrooms, or maybe a combination of eggplant together with mushies. We'll continue you lot posted. The primary affair to Federal Reserve annotation is that this is a wonderfully spicy process together with our outset endeavor was almost the perfect wintertime repast - nosotros simply take away to tumble out the texture.


Lamb korma pilaf

400g basmati rice
iv onions, chopped finely
Thumb-sized slice of ginger, minced
half-dozen cloves garlic, finely chopped
ii greenish chillies, finely chopped
five cloves
five cardamom pods
one 5cm cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
600g faux-lamb
400g mushrooms
one tablespoon terra firma coriander
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
one teaspoon cumin powder
1-2 teaspoons chilli powder
one teaspoon mace powder
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg powder
100ml yoghurt
iii tomatoes, chopped
ii teaspoons salt
ii bay leaves
a few strands of saffron
a splash of milk

Wash the rice together with exit to soak inwards mutual frigidity H2O for xxx minutes.

Heat a distich of tablespoons of crude inwards a large pot together with tyke the onions until they're soft together with medium to black brown. Add the ginger, garlic, chillies, cardamom, cloves together with cinnamon together with tyke for a few minutes. Add the 'lamb' together with mushrooms together with stir-fry for a few minutes, until it's good coated inwards the onions together with spices.

Add the spice powders (coriander, cumin, mace, chilli together with nutmeg) together with mix well. Add inwards 1/4 loving cup of H2O together with stir, simmering for a distich of minutes.

Add the yoghurt, tomatoes together with common salt to the pot, stirring through. Cover together with exit to ready for 15-20 minutes, adding H2O if everything dries up. When everything is cooked, it should hold upwards thick together with spicy together with non a runny, saucy gravy.

Drain the rice together with compass it inwards a pot alongside an equal book of H2O together with the bay leaves. Bring to the boil, add together the turmeric, common salt together with a splash of crude together with simmer uncovered, until the H2O has been soaked upwards together with the rice is almost 3/4 cooked.

Soak the saffron inwards the milk together with laid aside.

Take a large casserole dish together with brush the bottom alongside oil. Put one-half the rice inwards the bottom together with spread evenly. Add the spiced lamb on elevation together with smoothen it out, earlier adding the residue of the rice on top. Cover together with ready at 160 degrees for xx minutes (until the rice is completely cooked).

Remove from the oven together with sprinkle the saffron/milk over the elevation earlier serving.

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.