Curryless curry

I guess that happens once in a while to everyone who spends some time in the kitchen, of course except those people who appear there only to open take away boxes. Suddenly you feel like want to cook this particular dish and you realize that you have all ingredients, except this main one. You are too hungry/ lazy/desperate to go for shopping. Well there is a solution and it’s called improvisation. Of course cooking burgers without meet or pancakes without flour could be very challenging and not always attains with expected result. At least you can try. You can always order pizza if not succeed…

Ingredients

3 red peppers seedless and diced into large cubes

2 cups of peeled raw shrimps

1 medium leek diced into large cubes

1 tbsp spoon of minced garlic

1 tbsp spoon of ground cumin

1 tbsp spoon of ground coriander

1 tbsp of cooking oil

Salt and black pepper 

You will also need a food processor and large pan.

Place leek and peppers into a food processor. Process until you reach thick and chunky consistency. Preheat the pan with cooking oil. Add leek, pepper, garlic and spices. Simmer for 30 minutes on low heat. Add shrimps and cook for another 10 minutes stirring occasionally until they change color. Add salt and black pepper. Season it with black pepper to achieve desired spiciness. Adding salt is optional. I’m trying to avoid using salt in my kitchen. It masks real flavors of food.

I served this ‘curry’ with pink rice and zucchini linguine. Recipes in next posts.

 

Husband Rate: 9/10

Chicken Curry Salad

That’s one of my favourite salads and perfect alternative for traditional curry. Easy to make and definitely lighter version that traditional carb salad. I used to add to this salad various types of pasta- farfalle, penne or parboiled rise but I found grated celery root as much healthier option. Sometimes I add half and half grated celery and rise.

Ingredients:
2 cups of grated raw celery root
2 cups of cubed chicken thighs without skin and bones (1,5 cm cubes)
1 can of sweet corn ( drained)
1 cup of canned cubed pineapple (1,5cm cubes)
3/4 cup of Greek yoghurt
2 tbsp of mayonnaise
5 tbsp of curry powder
1 tbsp of black pepper (or more if you like spicy version)
1 cup of parboiled rise (optional)

1. Roast chicken thighs on the non-stick pan with 1 tbsp of curry powder and put it cool place to cool down. It can be warm during combining with other ingredients.
2. Place chicken in large bowl and mix it well with other ingredients.


Important!
I would recommend to wait until last possible moment before preparation to grate celery because this vegetable gets brown. You don’t need to worry that celery will turn dark in the salad. Mayo and yoghurt contains acid preventing from oxidation reaction

Husband rate: version with celery 6/10 – (he just doesn’t like this ingredient) version with rise - 9/10