Diary Recipes: curried

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Curried Parsnip Soup

I havent taken part in No Croutons Required (NCR) for a few months. Its Lisas turn to host and also her birthday, she loves spicy food and has asked for spicy soups and salads this month.

There was a special offer on the veggies at the supermarket last week and parsnips featured in the offer so I ended up with a couple of packs of parsnips and decided to make a curried parsnip soup.

Curried Parsnip Soup

600g Parsnips peeled and chopped

1 onion, peeled and chopped

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1tbsp Pataks Jalfrezi curry paste

1 litre vegetable stock

salt & pepper

250ml milk or cream

chopped parsley

Heat the oil in a large saucepan or pressure cooker, add the choppped onion and cook gently until transparent. Add the curry paste and cook for about a minute, add the parsnips and cook in the oil and curry paste for about 5 minutes until coated and slightly browned.

Add the vegetable stock and seasoning and cook until the parsnips are soft.

Let the soup cool slightly, either liquidise or use a stick blender to puree the soup. Add the milk or cream and adjust the seasoning to taste.

Serve sprinkled with parsley.

This is a very simple soup, but was really delicious. Ive never made it with curry paste before but as I always have some in the fridge, I will definitely do so again. It seemed to add a depth of flavour as well as a little heat to the soup.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Indian Egg Rolls with Curried Chicken

Egg Rolls with Curried Chicken

Ingredients for eggs

Eggs – 4 nos

Red chilli powder – ¼ tsp

Salt to taste

Oil to make egg wraps

Ingredients for stuffing

Boneless chicken ( cut into tiny bites) -250 gms

Celery ( chopped) – 1 cup

Tomato chopped ( remove the seed and pulp) – 1 no

Capsicum chopped – 1 no

Red Chilli sauce – 2 tsp

Tomato sauce – 1 tsp

Curry powder - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil – 2 tsp

Egg Wraps

Method

1. To make chicken filling. Heat oil in a pan, when oil is hot add celery, capsicum and sauté for few seconds. Next add chicken pieces, sauté until chicken turns white in color.

2. Now add the chopped tomato, red chilli sauce, tomato sauce, curry powder and required salt, stir fry for a minute. Sprinkle some water to the pan, stir well, cover the pan and cook chicken on low heat for 5 mins. 3. When the chicken is cooked increase the heat and cook chicken filling until dry.

4. To make egg wraps. Beat eggs, red chilli powder and salt in a bowl with a tsp of water until frothy.

5. Heat oil in a non stick pan and make thin omelets. Remove each omelet to a plate spoon chicken filling in one corner of omelet and roll.

6. Cut egg wraps into half and serve hot.

Egg wraps