Showing posts with label peanut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peanut. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2014

VEGETABLES AND PEANUT FRY CURRY







This was a dish I made out of some leftover veggies and boiled peanuts I had in the fridge. I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought a big bag of raw peanuts for just the two of us and boiled everything the very same day. It was way too much for us. We had it like a snack for 2 days and we were done with it and couldn’t take anymore :( Then I got this idea of grinding it up and making a side dish for chapathis. This was good, the taste was a little bit different from the gravies where I add dry ground peanuts and tasted good too. Next time when I boil some peanuts, I am thinking reserving some just to make this dish again. This curry is on its way to

Leftover Delicacies hosted by Daisy Blue.



INGREDIENTS

  1. Chopped mixed vegetables, 1 cup.
  2. Boiled peanuts, 1 cup.
  3. Onion 1 large.
  4. Roma tomato, 1.
  5. Green chili. 2.
  6. Ginger-garlic paste, 1 teaspoon.
  7. Salt as per taste.
  8. Turmeric powder, ¼ teaspoon.
  9. Chili powder 1 teaspoon.
  10. Coriander powder, 1 teaspoon.
  11. Garam masala 1 teaspoon.
  12. Cumin seeds, ¼ teaspoon.
  13. Tamarind juice, 1 tablespoon.
  14. Curry leaves and cilantro for seasoning.



PREPARATION

Grind the boiled peanuts into a smooth paste with some water. Dice the onion and tomatoes finely and slit the green chilies into two. Heat a pan with some oil and add the cumin seeds, and let it splutter. Then add the diced onions, curry leaves, and green chilies and sauté for a few minutes until the onions turn brown. Add the tomatoes and ginger-garlic paste and keep sautéing until everything is well blended. Then add the chopped vegetables, all the powders, salt, boiled peanut paste, and tamarind juice along with 1 cup of water. Mix everything well and let it cook closed for 5-10 minutes until the vegetables are cooked and the curry starts to thicken. Add another tablespoon of oil at this stage and keep stirring under low flame until the desired thickness is reached. Garnish with cilantro and serve hot with chapathis, rice or any bread.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

African Sweet Potato Soup with Peanut Butter Black Eyed Peas Beans

Recipe for African Sweet Potato Soup with Peanut Butter
A scrumptious peanut soup recipe - gluten and dairy-free.

Happy New Year, Gentle Reader. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. And it's time for a black-eyed pea recipe. One of my favorites, with African flavors. Serving black-eyed peas and beans at the start of a freshly birthed year is serious good mojo in some circles. At least that's what they tell me. Why eating a plate of legumes on New Year's Day brings luck I've no idea, but someone somewhere decided these humble little nuggets of vegan protein were a good and fortunate culinary choice. So why not?

Rather than rummage through cookbooks searching for Southern Hoppin' John recipes or Italian white bean escarole stews I turned instead to the sun drenched flavors of West and North Africa and reprised a stew that is spicy and hearty and peanutty. If you cannot use peanut butter try sunflower seed butter. It is no less fabulous.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Peanut Butter Banana Cake

Gluten free peanut butter banana cake
My gluten-free peanut butter banana cake was inspired by a sandwich.

It has been an awful week. Our hearts ache for the profound and inconceivable loss suffered by Japan. To conjure sweet nothings about cake or cookies, or celebrating the first day of spring rings a tinny, grating note. So I am excavating a recipe from the archives instead, sharing it now for those of you new to the blog, or those of you who may have missed it the first time around. It's a simple, sugar-free recipe based upon a childhood favorite- the peanut butter and banana sandwich.

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