November 12, 2008: Spiced Novel Potatoes, Curried Light-Green Beans & Xanthous Rice

Another month, some other recipe. For November, the World inward Your Kitchen Calendar offered upward spiced novel potatoes from Sri Lanka. This was clearly intended as a side dish, hence I did a fleck of poking to a greater extent than or less the spider web to endeavor to uncovering some Sri Lankan themed goodies that could accompany the spuds. Thankfully, this website: http://asiarecipe.com/sriveg.html came through alongside the goods - dozens of vegetarian Sri Lankan options. I decided to larn nuts as well as plough out 3 dishes: the spuds, some curried greenish beans as well as xanthous rice.

Everything involved was relatively uncomplicated - fifty-fifty alongside 3 burners on the larn this didn't accept me much to a greater extent than than one-half an hour, alongside most of the background jobs finished past times the fourth dimension the spuds had boiled. The potatoes were fantastic - tangy, spicy as well as tender. Cindy fifty-fifty suggested they could supplant her measure white patato accompaniment. The rice was every bit impressive, creamy as well as flavoursome, almost sweetness plenty for a dessert. It's in all probability non a salubrious take in to soak rice inward kokosnoot milk, but it certain is a gustatory modality sensation. The employment was the beans. I'd popped inward a pair of teaspoons of curry pulverization that we'd been given as purpose of a fancy Oxfam present, thinking it would locomote relatively mild. Turns out it was anything but - the beans packed a firey, firey, whallop. Too much for us to relish unfortunately, hence the beans got shunted to i side of our plates to locomote frozen as well as rejigged into something to a greater extent than manageable later on on.

So dinner ended upward beingness rice as well as potatoes - a fiddling colourless as well as dull, but rich, warm as well as flavourful nonetheless.



Spiced novel potatoes

500g minor potatoes
1 teaspoon dark mustard seeds
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
2 teaspoons dry soil coriander
1 teaspoon turmeric
1-2 tablespoons chopped coriander
juice of 1 lemon
oil
salt

Boil the potatoes for nearly fifteen minutes, until they're good cooked. Drain as well as peel.

Heat the crude oil inward a pan as well as add together the mustard seeds. Once they pop, throw inward the potatoes as well as create for 5 minutes.

Throw inward the remainder of the spices, tabular array salt as well as coriander as well as create for some other 10 minutes or so. Stir the lemon juice through simply earlier serving.



Curried greenish beans

500g greenish beans, trimmed
3 tablespoons oil
2-3 teaspoons of curry pulverization (make certain the curry pulverization is non ridiculously spicy)
1 tablespoon mustard
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
salt

Fry the beans inward the crude oil for nearly 5 minutes. Add all the other ingredients, stir everything together as well as create for some other 5 minutes or so. And you're done.



Yellow rice

3 cups rice
4 tablespoons butter
2 onions, sliced
10 cloves
20 dark peppercorns
12 bruised cardamom pods
1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric
3 teaspoons salt
5 cups kokosnoot milk

Heat the butter inward a saucepan, tiddler the onions until browned.

Add the cloves, peppercorns, cardamom pods, tabular array salt as well as turmeric.

Add the rice as well as fry, stirring constantly until it's good coated.

Add the coconut, convey to the boil as well as and then embrace as well as larn out on depression estrus cooking until the rice is done (maybe 25 minutes). The spices should come upward to the peak land the rice is cooking, pregnant yous tin scoop most (but non all) of the cloves as well as cardamom pods out earlier serving it all up.