SWEET POTATO CURRY

OUTSTANDINGLY BRILLIANT RECIPE 

30 MINUTE MEAL

This is a slight twist on my best ever vindaloo recipe and it is even more lip smackingly gorgeous, the sweet potatoes soaks up all the vibrant curry spices giving a deep rich fragrant curry that you will find your spoon going back for more.  Great as a main meal or side dish.

Prep Time 10 minutes / Cooking Time 20 minutes combined

Ingredients

(serves 2 as main or 6 as side dish)

The Vegetables

1 onion finely diced

2 cloves garlic finely chopped

3 large tomatoes chopped

3 fresh green chillies sliced length ways

4 sweet potato peeled and diced

1 cup of frozen peas

The Vindaloo Marinade

1 tsp black peppercorns

2 cloves

1 tsp cumin seeds

seeds from 12 cardamoms

2 inch piece of cinnamon stick

1 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp sugar

2 tbsp kashmiri chilli powder

1/2 tsp turmeric

5 tbsp white wine vinegar

2 tbsp tamarind pulp

2 tbsp grated ginger

4 cloves garlic chopped

1 onion roughly chopped

The Vindaloo Marinade 

First make the marinade, heat a dry skillet warm and gently warm the whole spices the peppercorns, cloves, cumin and cardamom remove from the heat and in a coffee grinder or pestle and mortar grind to a powder and place in a bowl along with the salt, pepper, sugar, chilli, turmeric, tamarind and vinegar.  In a food processor blitz the onion, ginger and garlic and add to the bowl, mix to form a paste, throw in the sweet potatoes, fresh chillies and tomatoes, leave to marinate for half an hour to 24 hours, the longer the better.

To Cook The Vindaloo

Heat a large pan over a medium heat and add the ghee then the diced onion, garlic and ginger, cook for around ten minutes without colouring the onions, add the marinated vegetable mix along with all the paste and 300ml of water or coconut milk, turn the heat down low and pop on a lid.  You may have to add a little more water as the vegetables cook to stop them sticking until you have fork tender vegetables and a thick sauce made from the marinade paste and tomatoes, stir in the peas these will warm through in a few minutes, check the seasoning and adjust if needed.  That’s it.

 Enjoy with some flat breads, cool sour yogurt mint dip and a onion and carrot mint salad.

Quick Chapatis Breads

500g 00 flour

water

pinch of sea salt

Place the flour in a bowl, add the water and salt, combine together until you form a dough ball, wrap in paper and leave to rest on the side for half an hour.  Cut the dough in to large golf ball sizes and roll out into 6 inch flat breads.  

To Cook

Heat a cast iron skillet or non stick frying pan to a high high heat, once up to temperature add a flat bread and cook for around 45 secs to 1 minute on each side, wrap in a tea towel to keep warm until needed, these will store well for a day or too in a air tight container.  To freshen up run the day old flat bread under running water and pop in the oven for 5 minutes this brings them back to new.

Carrot and Onion Mint Salad

1 carrot grated

1 onion finely sliced

10 leaves fresh mint sliced

1/4 lemon juiced

Combine all the ingredients.

Yogurt and Mint Dip

1 cup fresh sharp yogurt

1/2 tsp lemon juice

10 mint leaves finely sliced

Combine all the ingredients.

Enjoy this delicious carnival of food and as a bonus any leftover sweet potato curry could be crushed, pan fried crispy and served for breakfast with a soft poached egg and watercress and avocado salad.