Curried veggies

This was my dinner today =)

Ingredients i used:
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
0.5 onion, chopped
0.5 garlic, minced (can use 1 too, i had 0.5 leftover from yesterdays hummus)
1 chilipepper, chopped
1 mushroom, in pieces
1 carrot, in pieces
3 small potatoes, in pieces
Some tablespoons of red curry paste
Soy sauce to taste
2 teaspoons tomato paste
Some dl of water
A little bit of leftover chickpeas
Pepper
Freshly squeezed lemon

I sauteed the veggies, adding water when needed, then i added curry paste, tomato paste and soy sauce and some more water and let it simmer a bit before adding chickpeas. When water was more or less evaporated it was ready to eat so i sprinckled on some pepper and freshly squeezed lemon juice =) It's probably yummy with rice, but i figured that out 2 minutes before it was ready to eat, so maybe i should start with boiling some rice next time xD

Pink coconut curry with rice =p

Hihi i love when my food is colored, i should do it more often =D
I made pink coconut curry with rice for breakfast (i sometimes make dinner for breakfast), and i thought it was cute that it was pink, so i decided to post it =p The pinkness comes from the red beet that i added =D

I'm not gonna specify how much of each ingredient i used, and also if anyone wants to make this you can use other ingredients of course =p

Ingredients:
Onion
Garlic
Chili
Red bell pepper
Carrot
Zucchini
Red beet
Cabbage
Celeriac
Coconut milk
Water (i wanted it more liquidish)
Green curry paste (other colors are nice too =p)
Lime juice (i had a little remaining that i wanted to use xD)

Directions:
Chop veggies, stir fry them a bit, add coconut milk, water, curry paste and optionally lime juice and let it simmer for a while. Served with rice or anything else that sounds yummy =p

Bonda

Someone wanted the recipe of bonda from my cooking book project so here it comes =p

This recipe is from the cooking book "Gourmet vegetar" written by Jane Prince.

I did some changes to the recipe though because i dont have whole mustard seeds, curryleaf, coriander plant, chickpea flour, or rice flour, so i had to replace these xD And i also fried in a pan with a little oil and not a bunch of oil like the recipe wanted.


I made recipe for 8 bondas i think if i remember correctly, i think i ended up with more than 8 xD And i ate all myself =p This is what i did (mixed a bit with what says in the book since i dont remember all xD)

Ingredients:
Vegetable oil
0.5 teaspoon mustard
0.5 onion
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, chopped in small pieces
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 green chili, nicely chopped
400 g boiled potatoes, in cubes,
A bit turmeric powder
0.5 tablespoon lemon juice
Coriander powder
Salt
More oil for frying/baking in pan

60 gram flour with 0.25 teaspoon baking powder
0.2 teaspoon turmeric
0.25 teaspoon chili powder
Some salt

(Ps: i added probably more of every spice than i said here and in different ratios xD so taste yourself how you like it before you make them into balls =p i like it spicy and yellow xD)

First set the potatoes to boil if you dont have any boiled potatoes laying around.
Then in a pan (wok it says in book but i dont have that so i used a saucepan or so instead) add oil and bake the onion, ginger and chili for 2 minutes and i think i might have had the mustard and curry in here too or i added it straight after.
Add potatoes, turmeric, 1 ts water, and let it fry for 2 minutes more until it's dry.
Remove the pan from the heat and add lemon juice and coriander and salt. Here you taste on it and spice more with whatever you feel there should be more of. I went a bit amok with the lemon juice so mine ended up tasting lemon xD I also liked the curry and mustard so i think i went a bit amok with them too =p And salt also ofc! I love salt! Could be i also did pepper, but i dont remember anymore.
So after it taste "perfect" then make it into balls using a tablespoon that is filled with much dough and then get your hands dirty by making them into balls xD
I somehow had time to make the flourdough earlier, i think while i was waiting for my potatoes to be ready, but if you havent made it yet, then make it now. Mix flour, baking powder, turmeric, chilipowder, some salt, in a bowl. Then add like 1 dl water a bit at a time until your dough is good. You can taste this dough too and add more of whatever you feel like. I think i wanted mine more yellow if it wasnt yellow enough =p I also did an error here and didnt add enough water (less than what it should be). I guess i made it like i made pancakes, but i like thick pancakes and i should have gone for thin pancakes consistency of the dough.
Dipp the balls in the flourdough so they get covered by the flourdough on all sides.
Fry the bondas in a bunch of oil on 180°C, or if you are like me and dont like to fill a pan full of oil or using a frying machine, then use a pan and fry them in a little oil (kinda tends to be much still since they need refill all the time, but still less than filling a pan @_@). Fry them on every side until they are golden.
Lay them on a paper so the oil can dry off and serve.

Tomato coconut curry leftover dinner

First i just wanna mention my legs still dont wanna run, but they dont mind walking for some reason >.> I wonder why xD

So over to todays dinner =p I had like half a can of tomatoes, 1/4 green chili, 3/4 can of coconut milk and half a broccoli i didnt know how to get rid of, so i figured to just mix it all together and see what happened xD And it actually turned out very well! So if i ever end up with lots of leftover stuff again i will maybe make something like this again =p

I guess the basis of this dinner would be the canned tomatoes, coconut milk, random vegetables and spices where the spices and vegetables can be changed to whatever you feel like or have xD I wanted mine kinda curryish =p

Here is what i used but ye, use what you have or want =p
Margarine/oil
2 mushrooms
1/4 onion
0.5 - 1 cm ginger (i guess its about 1-2 teaspoons xD)
1/4 green chili
1 carrot
1/4 red bell pepper
5 cm zucchini
1/4 broccoli
1 tomato
1/2 can of tomato
1/4 can coconut milk
Spices (no spesific order xd): curry, coriander, mustard, turmeric, cumin, chili, paprika, salt, pepper

I sliced mushrooms in 0.5 cm thick slices then divided them in two on the middle. The mushrooms i had on medium heat with the margarine/oil until they were "ready". Meanwhile i finely chopped the onion, ginger and chili. When the mushrooms were "ready" i added this. It's smart to stir every now and then btw =p The carrots i chopped in 0.5 cm thick circles that i divided on the middle so they became half-moons (i was artistic today xd) then added them, then cut the bell pepper in pieces and added them, then i cutted the zucchini in 0.6 cm thick circles that i divided in 8 pieces and added (artistic ftw xD) then i chopped broccoli and added that and i assume i let it stir for a bit until i felt the vegetables was ready for tomato (some minutes or immediately, i dont remember xD) So then i added can of tomato and chopped the other tomato and added that one too. Then i added coconut milk and let it all simmer for a while. Then i added the spices after taste, and let it simmer until all vegetables were tender =p

I could probably shorten the wall of text above to: "chop and add vegetables!" but that would be boring since im in wall of text writing mood atm =p

Ah now i remember, after spicing it nicely up i figured i would serve it with quinoa, so let it simmer while i made quinoa =p Rice or other stuff would probably work just as fine, but today i felt like using quinoa =p

Here is a picture of the deliciousness =p

Now i still need to use the rest of the broccoli, onion, ginger, mushrooms, red bell pepper, 2 kg carrots, 1/2 can coconut milk and the rest of the zucchini xD but i already got plans for some of them (cuz of the cook book project) xD But maybe i make this again to get rid of the rest of the broccoli, cuz that broccoli is "hard" to get rid of and i always wanna get rid of it xD and i always wanna have a broccoli in the house aswell xD im weird xD