Winter Veggie Curry

Nothing like a spicy curry on a cold day.

Feb 1, 2007 Devorah Stone

This is a vegetable curry that uses whatever vegetable you have in your fridge. Make your own curry mixture.

Curry is a mixture of all kinds of spices. No two curries are alike. It’s fun to create your own curry mix. Vegetable curry isn’t an actual recipe, there is too much variation. Feel free to experiment depending on your own personal tastes. You can use fresh spices and seeds or the powdered kind. Fresh is always better.

The Base:

  • Oil for frying
  • 1 White Onion
  • 1 14fl. Oz. can of tomatoes or 4 plump or Roma tomatoes, peeled.
  • Water as needed

The Curry Mix:

  • 3 chili or chili powder or cayenne pepper to taste
  • 2 teaspoon coriander seeds
  • 4 cloves or 2 teaspoons cloves powder
  • 10 peppercorns
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • ½ mustard seeds
  • 1 teaspoon cumin powder or ½ seeds
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1 bay leaf

The Vegetables

Use what you have in the fridge. It’s a good idea to have both slow cooking meaty root vegetables along with the faster cooking light kind.

Put the vegetables depending on how long they cook.

First:

Squash – Both Acorn and Butternut are great in curries. Chop up in bite size pieces.

Yams- Chop into bite size pieces.

Second:

When the Squash or Yams are just tender put in -

Thick skinned Baker potatoes – peel and quarter.

Third:

Carrots – bunch carrots are great. Cut diagonally for best results.

Cauliflower – chopped.

Fourth:

Broccoli tops.

Fifth:

Celery – chopped diagonally

Beans

Peas – fresh or frozen.

Last:

Mushrooms – discard stems.

Chop and sauté the onion in olive oil. When just brown add the chili or cayenne pepper and coriander seeds. Stir in tomatoes on a medium heat. Add all the spices except the bay leaf. Keep stirring while you add in the vegetables. Add water as needed. Add bay leaf. Adjust heat from simmer to medium as you put in the vegetables. Five minutes after you add the last vegetable, bring to a boil for one minute. Discard the bay leaf. If you have potatoes its a complete meal!

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