Help with Indian style meal

Sunshine_and_Roses

I have a 2kg bag of red split lentils, and would like to use for something other than bulking out soups and shepherds pies.

I would like to try a dhal/daal, but unsure the easiest way to do it.

I also have two chicken breasts, cauliflower, spinach, mushooms, small tin of chick peas, rice, naan bread, passata, tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, various spices (tho no mustard seeds or garlic, and an emergency jar of tikka masala sauce.

I also have found some creamed coconut sachets which are rock hard - probably as they are best before August 2012!!!

I would love some suggestions as to what I can make - need a changed from chicken and mushrooms with the tikka masala sauce and rice!!

Maitane

Hi, do you have any onions? Onions cooked very slowly are really important in curries.

Do you want to avoid rice totally because you have cauliflower and spinach which would make a lovely side dish.

Also, how many are you cooking for and what level of spice do you all like?

Sunshine_and_Roses

Yes, I have a bag of red onions. There will be two of us eating, and like medium spiced foods, nothing too spicy but not keen on korma or creamy sauces.

Maitane

Try Madhur Jaffrey's red split lentil dahl - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/5050514/Madhur-Jaffrey-picks-her-favourite-recipes-Madhurs-daily-dal.html

As I say, I'd make saag gobi and here's a link to one you can use as an example, just tweak to suit what you have - http://www.thriveonfive.co.uk/blog/2015/3/11/saag-gobi

Then chicken and chickpea patia. I'm obsessed with patia and you can find my recipe here - http://sfsdtam.weebly.com/blog/the-sfsd-curry-chronicles-volume-one-obsession-pathia
Although you could use your jar sauce if you fancied.

Sunshine_and_Roses

Wow thank you Maitane, they look great!!

Maitane

You can tweak the vindaloo recipe on my site too to suit how many chillies you want to put in. I quite often make a mild version of the paste to make pumpkin vindaloo for my father in law.

Mr_Singleton

Maitane wrote: »

You can tweak the vindaloo recipe on my site too.

Google has just told me that there are around 935,950,654 websites currently on the net.

What question do you think I'm going to ask? or is that a bit obvious?

Maitane

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Google has just told me that there are around 935,950,654 websites currently on the net.

What question do you think I'm going to ask? or is that a bit obvious?

I had already linked to my patia so didn't want to take the mickey - if you're interested it's here at http://sfsdtam.weebly.com/blog/the-sfsd-curry-chronicles-volume-2-vindaloo-misguided-bravery-just-a-way-to-clear-sinusitis-or-something-to-try-at-home