Cauliflower stew with mung bean and coconut milk

         Cauliflower stew with mung bean and coconut milk

Today I want to make a stew with cauliflower and mung bean which  is a marvelous dish as cauliflower and mung bean blend well. A must try stew.

Cauliflower is a lovely white vegetable. A good  source of anti oxidant. It has vitamin C and k. It provides beta-carotene. It boosts heart health and brain health. Easy to digest. We bake, make curry,stir fry. It is a must in your diet.It helps to fight cancer and inflammation and it supports detoxification.

Cauliflower stew with mung bean and coconut milk

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       Cauliflower stew with mung bean and coconut milk

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes

Cauliflower 

Serves: 4

Preparation

Roast 1/2 cup split mung bean in microwave for 3 minutes or till it is roasted.
Add 11/2 cup of water and boil in slow fire for 15 minutes and keep aside.

Cut the cauliflower into small florets and put in salted water to 
make it insect free.

cut the  mini capsicum  lengthwise.(optional)

 Method
1. Add 2 table spoon oil in a wok and heat.
2. Fry 1 chopped onion till it turns light brown, may be around 10 minutes.
3. Add 20 grams shallots and fry for 3 minutes.
4. Add 3 cloves of chopped garlic and 10 grams chopped ginger  and fry for 1 minute.                                                                       
5. Add 1 chopped green chili and 5 curry leaves cut fine and fry for 2 minutes.
6. Add cauliflower and stir fry for 2 minutes.
7. Add 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds and
 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and stir.
8. Add 1 teaspoon salt and 2 cups of water. Bring to boil and lower the heat  and simmer for 8 minutes.
9. Add the capsicum . Cook till cauliflower is soft.
10. Now stir in the boiled mung bean and cook for  5 minutes.
11. Add in 1/4 cup of coconut milk, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper and cook for 3 minutes. 
12 The stew is ready.
13. If you like you can cool and liquidize it as a soup. Instead of coconut milk when you liquidize you can add carnation milk.

Cauliflower stew with mung bean
and coconut milk

14. You can also leave the spices and make the soup It is delicious too.
15. It is a marvelous stew as the cauliflower and mung bean blend well. 





Cauliflower stew with mung bean and coconut milk is ready.

                          RECIPE FOLLOWS IN DETAIL WITH PICTURES.

                     

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients
Main

300 gr cauliflower

Onion, ginger,curry leaves,shallots
garlic,green chili

½ cup mung bean
Others
1 onion
20 grams Shallots
3 cloves Garlic 60 grams
10 grams ginger
1 green chili
1 sprig curry leaf
1 mini bell pepper 80 grams(optional)
2 cups water
1 tea spoon salt( to your taste)
SpicesI
1 tsp cumin seeds
½ tsp fennel seeds
½ tsp turmeric powder
¾ teaspoon pepper powder.


PREPARATION 
Roast mung bean in micro wave for 3 minutes or till it is roasted

Roasted mung bean

Boil for 15 minutes and keep aside.
Cut cauliflower into florets and dip in salted water to make it insect free.

Cauliflower florets

Cut mini capsicum length wise

Mini capsicum

Method

Add oil to a heated pan and fry onion till it turns light brown may be around 10 minutes.

Frying onion

 Add shallots and fry for 3 minutes and add garlic and ginger for 1 minutes. 

Adding shallots ,garlic and  ginger

Add green chili, curry leaves and fry for 2 minutes. 

Adding green chili and curry leaves

Add cauliflower and stir for 2 minutes.

Adding cauliflower

 Now add cumin seeds, fennel seeds and turmeric powder and stir. 

Adding cumin,fennel seeds and turmeric 

Add salt and 2 cups of water. Bring to boil, lower the heat and simmer for 8 minutes 

Adding water

add the capsicum cook till cauliflower is cooked. 

Adding capsicum

Now add the boiled mung bean stir and cook for 5 minutes. 

Adding boiled mung bean

Add coconut milk and pepper and cook for 3 minutes. Stew is ready.

Adding coconut milk and pepper

Cauliflower stew with mung bean and coconut milk

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Indoor air dried curry leaves and powder

Indoor air dried curry leaves and powder 

 Curry leaf is an essential ingredient in curry. Curry leaves are not merely a flavouring agent but are also packed with nutrition. They contain premature greying of hair. They also help in controlling cholesterol and blood sugar levels. They are a rich source of vitamins A, B, C, and B2, calcium, and iron.

Fresh Curry leaves

We normally use fresh curry leaves. When we are short of fresh curry leaves and in places where curry leaves are not readily available, dried curry leaves come handy. I wrote about drying curry leaves in the oven.

https://simplycookingandhealth.blogspot.com/2017/05/drying-curry-leaves-and-pandan-leaves.html 

Today I am going to show how to air dry curry leaves and make powdery.

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                     Indoor air dried curry leaves and powder 

Preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time:0

Dry in a weeks time 

Indoor air dried curry 
leaves and powder 

1.Buy two to three bunches of curry leaves.
2. Strip the leaves.
3. Wash them.
4. Spread on a tea towel and pat dry.
5. Spread on a kitchen towel or news paper.
6. Leave it on the table indoors.
It will dry naturally in a weeks time depending on the temperature.

Curry leaves powder

7. If the leaves a fully dry they will crumble when you crush them with your fingers. 
8.Store in a bottle and keep aside.
9. use it as fresh leaves in curries. 
10 Put them in a  grinder and powder it.
Store in a bottle.you can use it in stews,soups or cutlets.


 Indoor air dried curry leaves and powder is ready.

                 Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time:0
Dry in a weeks time 

Buy two to three bunch of curry leaves and strip the leaves. Wash the leaves and  spread on a long tea towel and wipe out the water.

Spread it on kitchen paper or news paper and leave on a table inside the house.It will dry naturally in one  weeks time depending on the temperature. If the leaves a fully dry they will crumble when you crush them with your fingers. If not, put them in a microwave for 10 seconds until they become brittle.

Stripped curry leaves drying on a paper

Store the leaves in a bottle and leave outside. in the kitchen. You can use anytime as needed.

Dried curry leaves in a bottle

Take some of the dried leaves and grind in the grinder to make the powder. 

Curry leaves powder

  Store in a bottle. You can use it for cutlets,stews, soups and in curries.

Curry leaves powder in a bottle

 I have also made pandan leaves ,lemon grass and moringa powders.

Home made moringa,lemon grass,pandan,and curry powders

Dried curry leaves and pandan leaves in bottles

Simple breakfast fruit salad with avocado and cherries

Simple breakfast fruit salad with avocado and cherries

We normally have fruit salad after dinner. We have one fruit like banana or apple after breakfast. I thought it is good to have a fruit salad for breakfast after two pieces of sandwich, instead of just one fruit. It resulted in creating this fruit salad.

                          
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   Simple breakfast fruit salad with avocado and cherries

preparation time: 15 minutes 
Cooking time : 0
Serves: 4

preparation 

Ingredients

1. Wash 300 grams avocado, cut and remove the seed. squeeze  lime or lemon on it cut into 1 inch pieces.
2.Wash and cut 100 grams straw berry to bite size pieces.
3. Peel 100 grams tangerine and separate.
4.Remove seeds from 100 grams cherries  and cut.

Fruit salad

5. Finely cut 5 grams mint and 7 grams parsley

Method
mix all and squeeze 1/4 piece of lemon,1 table spoon olive oil that's it.



                                                 

  Simple breakfast fruit salad with avocado and cherries is ready.

                               

                                 Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

                     

preparation time: 15 minutes 
Cooking time : 0
Serves: 4

Ingredients
Main
300 grams Avocado
100 grams cherries
100 grams tangerine
100 grams straw berries
Others
1/4 lemon
5 grams mint leaves
7 grams parsley
1 table spoon olive oil 

Ingredients

preparation 
Wash avocado cut and remove the seed. squeeze  lime or lemon on it and cut into 1 inch pieces.

wash and cut straw berry .
peel tangerine and separate 
deseed cherries 
finely cut mint and parsely

Cut ingredients

Method
mix all and squeeze lime and olive oil that's it.

Simple breakfast fruit salad with avocado and cherries

Spicy vegetarian lamb curry with coconut milk

                            Spicy vegetarian lamb curry
we are familiar with mutton curry made from lamb. Vegetarians cannot have a taste of it. But today modern technology has provided vegetarian lamb made from soy protein, or textured vegetable protein (TVP), in the form of powder or wheat gluten, which has a stretchy texture that can be easier to modify so it resembles the chewiness of meat. So here I am with a vegetarian lamb to make a lamb curry for the vegetarians.

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           Spicy vegetarian lamb curry with coconut milk
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
main
 230 grams vegetarian Lamb
Others
1 big onion

vegetarian Lamb

3 cloves garlic
15 grams ginger
1 green chili
1 sprig curry leaves
1 big tomato
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups water
1/4 cup coconut milk
2 table spoon vegetable oil
Spices
1 table spoon curry powder

1 tea spoon coriander powder
1/2 tea spoon turmeric powder
1/2 tea spoon chili powder

Ingredients

1 teaspoon biryani powder
2 pods cardamom 
2 inches cinnamon
5 cloves
Preparation
Cut vrgetarian lamb into bite size pieces
Method

Spicy vegetarian lamb curry
with coconut milk

Heat a wok or a pan, add 2 table spoon oil and heat it . Add 2 inches cinnamon, 2 pods cardamom, 5 cloves and 1 dry chili. Fry till you get fragrance. If you like you can add pandan leaves and lemon grass. Add 1 chopped onion   and fry for 10 minutes and add 1 sprig  chopped curry leaves.  Add 1 chopped tomato and fry for 2 minutes.Add chopped 3 cloves  garlic and 10 grams finely cut ginger and  fry for 2 minutes. Add lamb
 and stir fry for 3 minutes. Add 1 table spoon curry powder, 1 tea spoon coriander powder, 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder, 1/2  tea spoon chili powder,1 teaspoon biryani powder.  Now add 2 cups water and 1 teaspoon salt.  Cover and bring to boil. Once it boils reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Now add 1/4 cup coconut milk and cook uncovered for 3 minutes. Curry is ready. taste for seasoning.

  Spicy vegetarian lamb curry with coconut milk is ready.                                                                                

                                 Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

                 

preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients 
Main 
230 grams vegetarian lamb

Vegetarian lamp

Vegetarian lamb

Others
1 big onion
3 cloves garlic
15 grams ginger
1 green chili
1 sprig curry leaves
2 cups water
1/4 cup coconut milk
2 table spoon vegetable oil

Ingredients

Spices
1 table spoon curry powder
1 tea spoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 tea spoon chili powder
1 teaspoon biryani powder
2 pods cardamom 
2 inches cinnamon
5 cloves
Preparation
Cut mock mutton into bite size pieces
Method
Heat a wok or a pan, add oil and heat it. Add  cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and dry chili fry till you get fragrance. If you like you can add pandan leaves and lemon grass. Add onion  fry for 10 minutes and add curry leaves.

Frying onion with spices

  Add tomato and fry for 2 minutes.  Add garlic and ginger fry for 2 minutes. 

Adding tomato with garlic and ginger

Add lamb and stir fry for 3 minutes.

Adding lamb

Add curry powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, chili powder and biryani powder. 

Adding spice powders

 Now add water and salt.  

Adding water

Curry is mixed with water

Cover and bring to boil. Once it boils reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

curry is covered to boil

Now add coconut milk and cook uncovered for 3 minutes. 

Adding coconut milk

Curry is ready. taste for seasoning. Serve with rice.

Curry is ready

Spicy vegetarian lamb curry with coconut 

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