Bulking out Meals?

SailorSam

I always have more veges and lentils in my curries than meat, once things are chopped little you'll never see the difference.

heretolearn_2

Chuck in as many veggies as you can find. Cut the breast into smallish pieces.

It'll also help to cook lots of rice and mix the curry right in with it rather than serving the rice with a separate dollop of curry, which can look a bit sad if there's only 2 or 3 bits of meat. When it's all mixed in no one knows how much meat is or isn't hiding in it. Looks like more somehow.

You might need a bit more sauce or for it to be a bit runnier than usual for this to work - just add some water to it when cooking. As long as the rice is well coated it'll be a tasty meal and won't matter too much if the meat is a bit slim pickings for once.

thehappybutterfly

I personally don't like many vegetables in curry other than peppers, potato and onions. I would bulk it out with either lentils or beans/chickpeas, something like that.

Honeythief

I find that chickpeas go particularly well with chicken curry. I'd never make it without chickpeas now as they are so yum together.

G.A.Rumpy

Thumbs up for peppers, potatoes and lentils.

GinaG3

I ALWAYS add onions to curry. If its chicken I may so it with chickpea and spinach. Sometimes peas. Garlic and fresh whole chilli. Cauliflower? Beef or lamb curry includes potato more often than not. Some fresh tomato wedges to any curry.. Then whatever spice mix for which curry I'm cooking. Should be fine with jar sauces too. Loads of variants with curries, just never sweetcorn, thats strange, to me anyway.

Steve059

GinaG3 wrote: »

I ALWAYS add onions to curry. <snip>

If you really like onions, make your curry into a "dopiaza", by putting some chopped onion in at the start and then adding some more onion, sliced into rings, after about 10 minutes.

Dopiaza is Urdu for ‘two onions’ and is any curry with lots of onion, half of which are added part way through cooking.

According to legend, it was created by accident, when one of the Mughal emperor Akbar’s cooks mistakenly thought that the onions had been left out of a curry, so quickly sliced some more and put them in. Fortunately, Akbar liked onions, thought this new dish was delicious and everyone lived happily, if flatulently, ever after.

viv0147

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zippychick

ive merged this with our thread on bulking out meals

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