Beans Curry, Pumpkin and Puri
It sometimes feels as if we ‘eat our emotions’. Does food make you long for a person or place? I feel ‘comfort food’ is as much about a person or memory experienced as it can be to warm one from the cooler weather.
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For me, a simple meal like Beans Curry, Pumpkin and Puri takes me back to my early adult life. I wrote about all my associative memories around Beans Curry in my book; The Beginning. For me, it always ‘takes me home’.
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The recipe for Beans Curry can be found in my book. I replaced the Sugar Beans with boiled butter beans (you can easily use one from the tin). A good tip is to soak and boil your beans and portion them. It can be frozen until ready for use. If you’re using beans from a tin, add it after the potato to avoid it mushing up in the pot.
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For me, a simple meal like Beans Curry, Pumpkin and Puri takes me back to my early adult life. I wrote about all my associative memories around Beans Curry in my book; The Beginning. For me, it always ‘takes me home’.
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The recipe for Beans Curry can be found in my book. I replaced the Sugar Beans with boiled butter beans (you can easily use one from the tin). A good tip is to soak and boil your beans and portion them. It can be frozen until ready for use. If you’re using beans from a tin, add it after the potato to avoid it mushing up in the pot.
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INGREDIENTS
- Pumpkin
This Pumpkin is best with Beans Curry and Puri or with Kurri Kitchri.
I used a quarter of a fresh pumpkin, cut into cubes. I’d say approximately 3 to 4 cups.
- A quarter cup of oil
- 1 tsp whole cumin
- Half a tsp black mustard seeds
- Half a tsp methi seeds
- 2 dried chillies
- 1 sliced onion
Instructions
- Allow this to cook just before the onion starts to brown.
- Add a sprig of curry leaf and 1 tsp ground garlic. Allow the garlic to brown gently and add the pumpkin. Add 1 tsp salt and stir well.
- At this stage, the heat should be on low to medium. After 15 minutes of cooking, add 1 tsp ground red ginger and garlic masala and 1 green chilli.
- Allow to cook for a further 20 minutes. The pumpkin should have softened completely by now and the oil should be coming to the top. I like for the pumpkin to start to brown slightly at the base of the pot. Add half a tsp of sugar and mix well. Leave the pot on the heat and switch it off.
- The pumpkin should be soft and almost melted.
The best way to eat left-over beans curry? In buttered white bread with tea
