Vegetable Curry
As my roommate and I have been left to fend for ourselves, whilst his better half goes a wandering, I’ll have to man up and deliver a bit of tucker.
It’s spring, in a New York way, I.E. cool, windy, and not yet comfortable, so perhaps a nice Thai vegetable red curry over basmati rice. I have some red curry paste, coconut milk, and a small truck-load of vegetables, so I’ll have at it.
From Wikipedia:
Curry is a variety of dishes originating in the Indian subcontinent that use a complex combination of spices or herbs, usually including ground turmeric, cumin, coriander, ginger, and fresh or dried chilies. Curry is generally prepared in a sauce. Curry dishes prepared in the southern states of India, where the word also originated, may be spiced with leaves from the curry tree.
There are many varieties of dishes called ‘curries’. For example, in original traditional cuisines, the precise selection of spices for each dish is a matter of national or regional cultural tradition, religious practice, and, to some extent, family preference. Such dishes are called by specific names that refer to their ingredients, spicing, and cooking methods. Spices are used both whole and ground, cooked or raw, and they may be added at different times during the cooking process to produce different results. The main spices found in most curry powders of the Indian subcontinent are coriander, cumin, and turmeric. A wide range of additional spices may be included depending on the geographic region and the foods being included (fish, lentils, red or white meat, rice, and vegetables). Curry powder, a commercially prepared mixture of spices, is largely a Western creation, dating to the 18th century. Such mixtures are commonly thought to have first been prepared by Indian merchants for sale to members of the British Colonial government and army returning to Britain.
Dishes called ‘curry’ may contain fish, meat, poultry, or shellfish, either alone or in combination with vegetables. Additionally, many instead are entirely vegetarian, eaten especially among those who hold ethical or religious proscriptions against eating meat or seafood.
Curries may be either ‘dry’ or ‘wet’. Dry curries are cooked with very little liquid which is allowed to evaporate, leaving the other ingredients coated with the spice mixture. Wet curries contain significant amounts of sauce or gravy based on broth, coconut cream, coconut milk, dairy cream, legume purée, sautéed crushed onion, tomato purée or yogurt.
Vegetable Curry
Ingredients
- 2-3 tbsp Thai Red Curry paste Yeah, store bought
- 1 small eggplant diced to 1/2"
- 1 medium Sweet Onion Peeled, diced
- 8 oz Mixed Mushrooms or Button Washed, dice to 1/2"
- 4 oz Carrots Washed, dice to 1/2"
- 1 ea Cauliflower Small, washed, chopped into florets
- 1 cup Frozen Peas
- 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp Minced Garlic
- 6 ea Red Finger Chili Peppers These are HOT!.. Adjust to taste, Wash and Dice
- 1 can Coconut Milk
- 1 inch ginger root Peeled / Grated
- 1 ea Bell Pepper Wash, diced 1/2, strip rest to 1/4" x 2" strips
- 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce Good Stuff
Instructions
Vegetables
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, add oil, mushrooms, onions. Saute until onions are translucent, and mushrooms are taking color, ~5-6 minutes
- Add Eggplant, Peppers and Cauliflower, saute until tender, ~5-6 minutes
- Add peas and sauce and stir to combine / heat through ~2 min
Curry Sauce
- In a medium skillet over medium high heat, add curry paste and saute until the oil start to separate
- Add minced garlic, ginger root and saute until fragrant, ~ 60-90 sec
- Shake coconut milk, and add to curry paste mixture, along with Soy Sauce, simmer to thicken, ~3-5 minutes
Notes
Filed
under: Cultural-Misappropriation, Indian, Vegan, Vegetarian
Comments are closed for this post.
You must be logged in to post a comment.