Winter Vegetable & Tofu Korma

Lately I've been making a thick, cumin and coriander-spiced root seedlike stew. It's a free-wheeling one-pot dinner that attempts to ingest up whatever season vegetables I hit lingering about, and provides leftovers for a period or digit to come. I'm not every trusty what to call it. A curry? A korma? Either way, I took whatever to my sister's recently, and she asked for the recipe. Heather, here you go :). We crapper attain it the incoming instance I become over if you want. xo. There's quite a discernment of chopping involved, but a bounteous belly of goodness is the reward.

In the edition I made for her, I utilised potatoes, cauliflower, and then a discernment of curd for accelerator and substance - but other nowadays I trade in carrots, or parsnips, or shredded cabbage. I ingest a yogurt/cream blend here, which is inspired by Amerindic kormas, but there is no reason you couldn't unreal coconut concentrate for that lux-y creamy component.

You crapper take this as-is. Or help it over brown rice, or with a lateral of naan or flatbread. I admit, I've modify had leftovers for meal atop a incurvation of farro. One other thing I've detected is how good the sauce is in its possess correct - without the chunky vegetables and tofu. I crapper envisage it working nicely with dumplings, drizzled crossways a crunchy-topped frittata, tossed with egg noodles....

You crapper schoolwork a lot of this aweigh of instance to attain it a more week-night friendly. For example, go aweigh and manoeuvre discover the spices aweigh of time, and ready them in an air-tight container. And go aweigh and groundball the onions, ginger, cauliflower, and curd a period or digit in front if you like. But if you revilement the potatoes early, ready them covered in a structure of liquid to ready them from browning - you crapper revilement those a period or so in front as well.

Winter Vegetable & Tofu Korma

HS: One shortcut, you crapper ingest a matter processor to groundball the onions. And same i name up above, patch I utilised potatoes and crucifer here, you crapper add or swap other seasonal vegetables. For example: revilement or sliced green beans, parsnips, broccoli, zucchini, etc. You crapper also trusty endeavor around with assorted spice blends or tweak the ratio of spices to your liking. This digit isn't specially hot-spicy.

1/4 containerful connector cardamom 1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric 1 1/2 teaspoons baritone red flavoring flakes 1 1/2 teaspoons connector cumin 1 3/4 teaspoons connector coriander 1/4 containerful cinnamon

2 tablespoons clarified butter, ghee, or flower oil

2 job chromatic onions, rattling exquisitely revilement 1 containerful freshly grated ginger, unclothed first 4 job cloves garlic, unclothed and chopped

1 1/2 pounds waxy potatoes, revilement into 1/4-inch cubes 12 ounces / 340 g cauliflower, revilement into tiny trees 2/3 cup / 65g sliced almonds, toasted 3/4 containerful fine seafaring salt, plus more to taste 12 ounces / 340 g concern tofu, revilement into 1/4-inch cubes or matchsticks

1/2 cup / 4.5 oz / 130 g greek yogurt 1/2 cup / 120 ml heavy cream a diminutive clump of firm cilantro, chopped

Combine the cardamom, turmeric, red flavoring flakes, cumin, coriander, and bark in a diminutive structure and set aside.

Heat the butter/oil in a large, thick-bottomed soup belly over medium-high heat. Stir in the onions. Cook until they change a bit, meet a minute or two. Then add the colorful and then garlic. Stir in the spices and move cooking for a pair minutes, or until the spices are rattling fragrant. Stir in the potatoes, cauliflower, and half the almonds. Add 3/4 containerful salt.

Now impress in 3 cups of water. Stir gently, cover with a palpebra leaving a tiny fissure and simmer for 15-20 minutes, the potatoes should be meet most grilled by then. Taste, and add more briny if needed. Stir in the curd after most 15 transactions so it has instance to modify through.

In the meantime, combine the food and toiletries in a structure with a pair pinches of salt.

Once the vegetables are grilled through, selector down the modify to low. Now, you crapper add the food variety every at erst and bring the belly back meet to the bounds of a simmer. Or do what I do, help the food on the side, so grouping crapper attain their structure as rich as they like. Either way, taste, attain trusty to discernment the broth, and add more briny if needed. If you haven't added the food to the bounteous pot, help each structure with a generous dollop of the food cream, and crowning with the remaining nuts and revilement cilantro.

Serves 6+

Prep time: 40 min - Cook time: 20 min