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Peach Chicken Curry on Rice

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Ingredients

  1. 2 * 440gm tins Peaches (or one large one)
  2. 10-12 chicken thighs boneless and skinless (feel free to use other parts of chicken)
  3. 2T Curry powder
  4. 1t Salt
  5. 1 pinch Pepper
  6. 1/2t Garam Masala
  7. 2Cups peas
  8. 2T cornflour
  9. 1/4 cup water
  10. Cooked Rice

Instructions

  1. Puree the peaches in a kitchen mixer (or use eggbeaters)
  2. Mix Peach puree, Curry powder, Salt, Pepper, Garam Masala into a large deep frypan.
  3. Bring the mixture to a simmer, and add the chicken pieces in.
  4. After 10 minutes simmering, add in the peas.
  5. Leave the chicken to simmer for about 30 minutes total.
  6. Once its fully cooked through, you may need to thicken it with cornflour.
  7. To thicken, mix the cornflour with the water, then slowly mix it in. Once its thicker but still fairly running its done.
  8. Serve over rice , this will feed 5-6 people.
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Winter Durchfall (my own recipe of vegetable stir fry)

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pumpkin (I used Crown/Grey Pumpkin)
  • 3 Onions Sliced
  • 3 Capsicum
  • 2T Garam Masala
  • 1t Cumin
  • 1t Salt
  • 1/2t Pepper
  • 1 1/2t Garlic (crushed, fresh, however you like it)
  • 700gms Beef Schnitzel

Preperation

  1. Roast pumpkin in oven, or cook in microwave, either whole or in large chunks
  2. Whilst pumpkin is cooking, slice Onions and Capsicum
  3. Lightly fry the Onions and Capsicum together , feel free to sprinkle salt to flavour
  4. Once pumpkin is cooked, remove skin and dice into bite sized cubes
  5. Put pumpkin cubes into large bowl or bag, add Garam masala, Cumin, Salt, Pepper and carefully mix together
  6. Dice the meat into bite sized squares, fry quickly in the frypan with the Garlic and a little salt.
  7. Put the pumpkin into an serving tray and mix Capsicum & Onion mixture gently into it, then sprinkle meat over it.

Notes: Feel free to drop the meat out of this one for a vegetarian option.

PS. Sorry for anyone speaking German, my daughter named it after asking what was in it, and i replied ‘lots of shit from the fridge’

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European Chinese (takeaway style chop suey) with noodles or rice

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Ingredients

  • large packet frozen veges (or up to 1kg fresh chopped veg)
  • 1 Table spoon ground ginger
  • 1 Tablespoon Garlic crushed
  • 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
  • 500gms sliced meat of your choice (optional)
  • 1-2 Tablespoon Cornflour.
  • 1 Cup of water

Instructions

  1. Put the Vegs, water, meat, everything but the cornflour into a pan with a lid and let it simmer.
  2. Once they have cooked for about 5-10 mins, mix the cornflour with a bit of water till disolved and slowly mix it until it thickens to desired amount.
  3. Cook rice or noodles to go with it as required.
  4. Serve!
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