I like curry and we can make a pretty authentic Indian curry at home now with naan, so much so we rarely eat out at an Indian these days or bother with takeaway.
I came across this recipe recently and we having a go at the vegetarian version tonight. Neither of us are vegetarian but we decided to give it a try. Will report back. Here it is:
I wouldn't normally bother posting something like this but having a quick look at the list of ingredients there is nothing in there that is impossible for the prepper. Some of it can be grown in your back garden (or front, or side for that matter) and what can't be grown can be put up into a long term food store. The only item in that list of tinned goods that we don't normally store is chickpeas, if this turns out ok I'll be adding some tins to the store.
Reservior wrote:I like curry and we can make a pretty authentic Indian curry at home now with naan, so much so we rarely eat out at an Indian these days or bother with takeaway.
I came across this recipe recently and we having a go at the vegetarian version tonight. Neither of us are vegetarian but we decided to give it a try. Will report back. Here it is:
I wouldn't normally bother posting something like this but having a quick look at the list of ingredients there is nothing in there that is impossible for the prepper. Some of it can be grown in your back garden (or front, or side for that matter) and what can't be grown can be put up into a long term food store. The only item in that list of tinned goods that we don't normally store is chickpeas, if this turns out ok I'll be adding some tins to the store.
Probably cheaper to buy dried chick peas.. we often make a curry with Yellow split peas or lentils.. both are great for filling up on and are reasonably cheap and easy to store
I have to say, it was very nice! I'm not that keen on cauliflower and I had hoped that using it in a veggy curry might help, wrong, still didn't like the cauliflower. Will make it again but just with chickpeas.
I rekon the whole thing is perfect doable on a single burner camping stove, infact if the weather ok on my next day off, il give it a go, in the wilds, and post some photos.
Question though, if I keep this on the heat, to the point it has no or very little sauce, could it be dehydrated and then bagged up? There's no meat in it and the only thing that concerns me, in the ingredients is the coconut milk?
Reservior wrote:
Question though, if I keep this on the heat, to the point it has no or very little sauce, could it be dehydrated and then bagged up? There's no meat in it and the only thing that concerns me, in the ingredients is the coconut milk?
Any thoughts?
Doing it that way is not really dehydrating it, it is cooking it to death. I suspect it would end up somewhat like many of my dinners, not something many people would recommend
If you cook it normally and then put it in a dehydrator it slowly drives off the moisture at a lower temperature rather than cooking it which should give a better result. If normal milk can be dehydrated, I see no reason that coconut milk shouldn't be, though often freeze-drying (which is beyond us mere mortals) is perferable to dehydration for some types of food. I might run a tin of veggie curry through my dehydrator and see what the result is !
Reservior wrote:
Question though, if I keep this on the heat, to the point it has no or very little sauce, could it be dehydrated and then bagged up? There's no meat in it and the only thing that concerns me, in the ingredients is the coconut milk?
Any thoughts?
Doing it that way is not really dehydrating it, it is cooking it to death. I suspect it would end up somewhat like many of my dinners, not something many people would recommend
If you cook it normally and then put it in a dehydrator it slowly drives off the moisture at a lower temperature rather than cooking it which should give a better result. If normal milk can be dehydrated, I see no reason that coconut milk shouldn't be, though often freeze-drying (which is beyond us mere mortals) is perferable to dehydration for some types of food. I might run a tin of veggie curry through my dehydrator and see what the result is !
I didn't really explain very well. What I was thinking, was that keeping it on low heat on the hob, would drive off more liquid, which would make less work for the dehydrator/cleaning it afterwards.
That is a great recipe. However, what if you have nothing to cook it on?
We had this great big , eff off range cooker delivered. Jan is one heck of a cook- and curry is our favourite. So... Curry was the first thing to do on the new cooker. It came with the wrong friggin' fittings! Plumber can do it , but not 'til Wednesday.
Emergency gas stoves to the rescue! Curry-on!!!
Ain't these the reasons we have kit like this?
And that does look a good curry !
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
jansman wrote:That is a great recipe. However, what if you have nothing to cook it on?
We had this great big , eff off range cooker delivered. Jan is one heck of a cook- and curry is our favourite. So... Curry was the first thing to do on the new cooker. It came with the wrong friggin' fittings! Plumber can do it , but not 'til Wednesday.
Emergency gas stoves to the rescue! Curry-on!!!
Ain't these the reasons we have kit like this?
And that does look a good curry !
Should be ok if the mains goes off Jansman, even one of those briefcase stoves will have this nailed.
Hoping the weather will be ok on Friday for me to get out and give it a go in the outdoors.
and we can make a pretty authentic Indian curry at home now with naan, so much so we rarely eat out at an Indian these days or bother with takeaway.