Food and Foody!!!

Thanks a lot for all the mouth watering recipies!! And more over they are all vegetarian. 'll try and then let u know!

Fried Rice (Sri Lankan style)

Ingredients

2 cups Rice (Parboiled)

100 g Cashew

50 g Raisin

50 g Green Peas

250 g Shrimp

2 onions (diced)

2 oz Butter or margarine

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/2 tsp. turmeric (or preferably Spanish saffron)

2 cloves

2 pieces cinnamon

1 piece lemongrass

to taste salt

Cooking the Rice

Add the butter to the saucepan and heat for a minute at low heat. Add the rice

and water. A easy way of measuring the right amount of water would be to add

the rice, stick in the index finger on surface of rice and fill water upto the 2nd

joint of the index finger (a little less is also fine). Add salt and turmeric and

bring to boil (if not in rice cooker). Then turn the heat to low cover and leave for

15-20 minutes. The rice should be ready by then.

The other stuff (to be done while rice is cooking)

Add oil to a large pan and heat. Fry the shrimps until brown (well done).

Remove the shrimp. Add the cashew, raisins, green peas, onion with the cloves

cinnamon and lemon grass and fry for about 5 minutes or until onions are a

brown color. Remove from fire and wait for rice.

Finally when the rice is ready add the rice, shrimp and the rest and mix well and

maybe heat for about 3-5 minutes.

The flavor is enhanced if the mixed rice is kept for about 6 hours and then

reheated (microwave) prior to serving.

not quite sure about dried shrimp (mainly cos never tried it)! but first recipe sounds delish! :o)

Spinach with Lentils

1lb Fresh Spinach (or Frozen chopped 12 oz package)

1/2 cup Orange lentils

1/2 cup coconut milk

2 tblspns mustard

2 tblspns unroasted curry powder

1 tblsspoon turmeric powder

to taste salt

1 onion

1 clove garlic

1 green pepper

pinch cinnamon (optional)

pinch lemon grass (optional)

1 cup water

Clean spinach and cut into small pieces. Dice garlic clove, onion and

green pepper

Wash lentils and mix with spinach. Add all spices, onion, garlic, green

pepper, cinnamon and lemon grass with lentils and spinach and boil for 10

minutes at medium heat. Finally add salt and coconut milk and cooking for 2

minutes on low heat.

Spinach with Coconut

12 oz Frozen Chopped Spinach

1-2 ozs Desiccated Coconut

1 Onion

1 tablspn Lime Juice

2 tblspns oil

1 tblspn Red Pepper Powder (optional)

1-2 oz Small Dried Shrimp (available at Oriental Grocery

Store)(optional)

Thaw spinach and squeeze out excess water. Dice onion. Dice shrimp if

fresh shrimp is used.

Heat oil in pan at medium heat. Add shrimp and onions and fry for 1-2

minutes. Add spinach and mix well. Immediately add lime juice, salt and red

pepper. Stir in pan for a 2 minutes at medium heat. Mix in desiccated coconut

and heat for 2 minutes.

do you have a recipe for spinach dhal sl? I used to have a really good one, with tomatoes in it, but I have lost it and can't seem to find one as tasty on the internet sites :o(

It was with red lentils ...

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OMG you are some Curry Master!! Keep it up, sl.

1 ripe pineapple peeled and diced into 1"chunks

OR 1 20 oz can of pineapple chunks drained

1 tsp mustard seeds

1-2 tsp of chillie powder

1 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp curry powder

1/2 onion chopped

1-2 green chilles chopped

2" piece of cinnamon

2 cloves garlic chopped

3 cardamoms, crushed

2 cloves crushed

1 tbsp sugar

1/2 cup of coconut milk

2 tbsp cooking oil

salt, pepper to taste

Curry leaves (optional)

Heat a medium size pan under medium fire. Fry the mustard seeds in oil. Cover and let the seeds pop. Next reduce heat add turmeric, chillie powder, curry powder and fry for about 20 seconds.

Next add onion, green chillies, garlic and curry leaves and fry till fragrant. Finally add all the ingredients except the coconut milk.

Cook covered for about 20-30 mins under low heat. Add the coconut milk, cook for another 3 mins.

Serve warm with rice.

Looks as we have a great cook here.:-)))How about to test the cooking knowledge of sl?Will you prepair a delicous dinner for all of us here?

(sorry sl,im joking).But i will make the green banana curry in the next days.Sounds delicious.

Have a nice day sl and regards from Swiss.

Potato Curry

1 lb potatoes

1cup milk (Dairy or Coconut)

2 tblspns mustard

2 tblspns unroasted curry powder

1 tspns turmeric powder

1 onion

1 green pepper

to taste salt

pinch lemon grass

Boil potatoes and remove off skin. Cut potatoes into cubes. Dice onions

and green pepper.

Add potato cubes, mustard, curry powder, turmeric, salt and milk and

bring to boil. Then add oil to a different pan at medium heat. Temper onions

and green pepper for a minute. Add the contents of the first pot and bring to boil

again.

Egg plant curry

Ingredients

1 (approx 1lb) Egg plant

1oz oil

1oz milk (Coconut or Cows)

2 tsps Curry powder

1 tsps Red pepper powder

to taste salt

pinch sugar

2 tsps vinegar (or lime)

One onion

Wash Egg plant and cut into small pieces. Add oil to frying pan, and heat to

boiling point. Add egg plant and fry until a light brown color (golden color).

Allow to drain on paper towel to remove excess oil. Add the fried Egg plant,

milk, curry powder, red pepper, salt, sugar, and vinegar to a pot and cook for

3 minutes.

Thanks a lot for that Green Banana Curry!! You just cant believe, I was actually in search of this recipe and see I got an authentic way of making it. Today only 'll bring all the ingredients and surely make it 2morrow. My husband really likes dishes made using coconut.

Green Banana curry

2 bananas (the cookable variety)

1/4 cup oil

1/4 cup milk (coconut or dairy)

2 tblspns unroasted curry powder

1/2 tblspn mustard

1 tspn turmeric

1 onion

to taste salt

1 tspn sugar

1 tblspn lime juice (or vinegar)

Peel skin of banana using a knife. Cut into thin slices.

Fry sliced banana in oil until a light brown color. Once banana have

fried remove and place on paper towels to remove any excess oil.

Add milk, curry powder, mustard, turmeric, onion, salt, sugar and

vinegar into a pot and bring to boil at low heat. Then add the fried banana and

cook for 2 minutes at low heat.

Spicy Onions

1lb onions

1/2 cup oil

4 tspspns red pepper powder

4 tspns Small Dried Shrimp (optional)

3 tspns vinegar

2 tspns sugar

to taste salt

1 clove garlic

1 green pepper

pinch cinnamon (optional)

1 piece lemon grass (optional)

Slice onions. Dice green pepper and clove of garlic.

Add onions to oil in a pan at medium heat. Allow onions to fry until

light brown in color. Then add the red pepper, diced green pepper, garlic,

cinnamon, lemon grass and stir in well at medium heat for 3 minutes. Finally

add vinegar, sugar and cinnamon and leave at low heat for 2 minutes.