1st vegetarian meal success (w/ recipe)!!

zognorf

Greetings to all.
It might not seem like much....but for me its HUGE. You see, over the last 16 months on MFP, I've been learning to cook---really cook. Fresh ingredients, from scratch whenever possible. Last night, I found an asian market that had all the kinds of
food you CANNOT find in the Standard American Supermarket. (S.A.S.'s are cheap, but what price do we pay later in medical?)

Its a variant of a recipe I found online. Gotta love google's "recipe" function in searches.

Here it is:

Spinach basil sweet potato curry:

2 garnet sweet potatoes (any good yams will do..wife and I favor this type) cut into small cubes

1 onion (great results with 1/2 red and 1/2 sweet yellow)

1 T Red Curry paste

2 T Panang Curry paste (thank you Asian mkt!)

14 oz Coconut milk (Thai kitchen lite can)

2 cups steamed Jasmine rice (or whatever rice you have in the homestead)

14 oz fresh Spinach

1/2 cup-1 cup Thai Holy Basil (basil with the purple steams--much brighter flavor than reg. basil)

olive oil (sufficient to cover bottom of pot.)

1 serrano pepper (or hotter if you like...we prefer the "neutral" hot of serrano) cut into pieces ( the smaller the piece the hotter the curry. We leave seeds in, you may de-seed of drop this altogether depending on your spice-ometer.

2 garlic cloves chopped

1-3 inches of ginger, finely chopped or grated

-Place large pot on medium high heat.
-heat olive oil till small pinch of garlic "crackles" and add rest of garlic, onions, and ginger. cook till onion is translucent
-add serrano, wait 1-2min.
-add cubed sweet potatoes, and stir while mixture heats through. this should NOT take long. as you stir, add chili pastes. mix well.
-add coconut milk, and stir while heated through.
-add spinach and basil. cover pan, wait 2-4 minutes while leaves wilt.
-stir wilted leaves into mix, heat till boiling and dial back to a simmer. simmer 5 min (or less) till potatoes are tender.

Add to rice and eat!
You will have a tough time eating more of this than you actually "Need" to be full.

Finding ways to cook without meat is tough for a hardcore carnivore....but moving to grass fed and organic stretches the pocketbook. a few meals like this each week make up the difference.:happy:

JennLifts

Where is this google recipe thing you speak of?!!??!

neelia

Where is this google recipe thing you speak of?!!??!

Oooh! Ooooooh! I want to know, too!

mirna_ayala0428

Hi. Looks yummy. Do you know the calories?

Talazws

Wow! Sounds delicious! I think I will try making this!

If you are interested in cooking some vegetarian meals, there are a lot of posts here on MFP that share different vegetarian recipes. Check them out!

m0_0m

YUM! I'm a vegetarian and this includes some of my favorites. Going to try it for sure. Thanks for sharing!

Atlantique

Where is this google recipe thing you speak of?!!??!

When you go to the Google homepage, look on the left-there's a link for Recipes now. Has been for a few weeks!

Or you can use this link: http://www.google.com/#q=recipes&hl=en&prmd=ivnse&source=lnms&tbs=rcp:1&ei=tSJ5Tc33MoGDgAflpvTJBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=6&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.&fp=30ab5e5efbe21c0c

ShrinkinMel

Thanks I will have to try this one. I make lentils with curry powder. I'm curious about curry paste now. We have a nice big Asian market nearby but I haven't be there yet. Should take a trip there soon.