Potato Curry

I made up a new potato curry recipe today because I wanted something spicy to clear the sinuses.

Ingredients

12 cloves garlic
2 medium onions
3 potatoes
1 dried red chili
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp turmeric
2 tsp paprika
2 tsp coriander
1 tsp mustard (whole grain)
soya sauce

1. chop the garlic finely, slice onions thinly, and cut the potatoes into small cubes
2. saute the garlic in a pan with some oil
3. fry the spices before adding onions
   
4. when onions are soft, add the potatoes, turn the heat high and throw half a cup of water in. quickly put the lid on the pan, lower the heat after a short while. this helps the potatoes cook faster.
   
5. add soy sauce to taste, about 2 tsp will do. repeat the adding water and then putting lid on process about twice.
6. when potatoes are soft, its done.
   

Anything Curry

Through a process of trial and error, I have found out that you can actually make a curry out of anything as long as you add the following ingredients into a frying pan with the other things you might want to put into a curry, such as potatoes, or even when you are desperate, pasta will do. Curry Pasta? Curry Toast? Curry Onions? Curry Carrots? Curry... Broccoli?

This makes a sort of actually indian tasting curry if you must know. Not a nonya curry, not a japanese curry, not some english "curry", but a rather distinctively indian curry like the stuff you might get in the prata shops.


ANYTHING CAN BE MADE INTO CURRY

Ingredients (for Anything Curry base)
Onion
Garlic
Tumeric
Cumin
Coriander
Paprika

1. Cut up the onion and garlic into very tiny bits.
   
2. In some cooking oil, fry garlic first, followed by onions. Finally, add all four spices in more or less equal quantities and mix it in to make some sort of paste. Now you feel like a real cook dontcha? Who needs curry powder, mysterious curry powder which you have no idea what its made of? Anyway so you fry the spices a while so they will be tastier.
   
3. Finally after the spices are prepared, just put in whatever else you meant to put into the Anything curry.

Also see: my recipe for Spicy Okra Something