A LENTIL CURRY /SIDE WITH LOADS OF GREEN-SPINACH&feNUGREEK

Taste and create....does that fire ur imagination?????

Well it certainly fired mine and ofcourse it revolved around food....


Yeah the whole show,a beautiful food show right up in all our kitchen every month is run by the lovely NICOLe of LOVE OF FOOD and hosted at TASTE & CREATE.


I am and would love to be a part of this wonderful monthly fun where all who register(by 8th folks) are paired up and u cook something delicious from ur partners blog as so does ur partner from urs....


How cool is that......


And cooler still were the yummiest veggie fare at my partner blog this month ie THE FANTASTIC SINGING CHEF AT WORK....THE VERY LOVELY RAAGA...

Boy she has so muc of fantastic recipes ,very nutricious too and so easy to put by and elcious ways to get ur daily quota of veggies...i had initially planned to have atleast 7 of her recipes but not possible this time round....oh yeah i fix dinner almost every day....but my camera goes into the kitchen with loads of caution and care(remember it aint even a month old),oh the laptops a frequent visitor all right.....


Oh i love photo graphy but my styling takes me bit coz aint no expert and am yet a little clueless about a few functions too...

And i do take time to photo graph and its dinner time even before i know it or lunch for that matter but i intend to not only cook up but also post a couple of her recipes-they are simply fantastic...


Thats probably the reason why our grilled fish dinners(yeah its been a lot of seafood of late)and tandoori grilled fish dinners with curd salads and afew other salads didn find their way up here.....


Well my time for excuses galore is up now but in defense they arent excuses dear...cant i share my life with my sweet happy pals ,and in an absolutely cheerful state of mind ,body and soul ,mind u........


So the first recipe i chose is -A FANTASTIC COMBO(OH The lovely RAAgA has loads of 'em)of LEntils with spinach and fenugreek leaves....delicious combi that we do have every so often at home but this was a little different in preparation but in flavour....well finger licking good and lentils usually has leftovers but this one didnt and i see myself making this ever so often again....

All her spinach recipes are fantastic and have to make 'em all truly......She's got the most amazing collection of really excellent veggie recipe and honestly i simply wanna try 'em all.......


Tweaked it a wee bit in the sense doubled the greens in the recipe so had to up the seasoning quotient a wee bit ,but not the chilly part though i did add a whole (not very spicy but flavourful)chilly.

ADAPTED FROM THE SINGING CHEF AT WORK

1)Soak 1/2 CUP ORANGE LENTILS(MASOOR DAL) & 1 TBH EACH OF YELLOW SMALL(moong dal)& YELLOW BIG (chana dal-aint sure about the names though) LENTILS the previous evening,changing the water ,when required(when that foam kinda arises)

Pressure cook the next morning ,after washing well,in 1.5 CUPS WATER.




2)HEat 1 tsp olive oil in a pan.


3)ADD THE FOLLOWING IN THIS ORDER, BROWNING EACH FOR A FEW SECONDS TO RELEASE FLAVOURS....

1.5 TSP CUMIN SEEDS
2 TSP ASAFOETIDA

when this releases a fantastic aroma...the next ingrdients now-

LOADS OF FRESH GARLIC CRUSHED(or garlic paste as per taste)
SOME FRESH GINGER CRUSHED
SMAIL PIECE OF GREEN CHILLY(i always use a wee bit of the tail for a little bite w/o upping the pungency)


u'll already begin to very much enjoy the fantastic aromas here...


2 ONIONS FINELY CHOPPED(meduim)
1 TSP TURMERIC
A WHOLE RED CHILLY DE-SEEDED OR THE MILDER VARIETY
SALT TO TASTE & A LITTLE(BIG REALLY)PINCH OF BROWN SUGAR....

4) fRY WELL FOR A MIN OR 2 AND TIP IN ONE CUP EACH OF SPINACH AND FENUGREEK LEAVES,CHOPPED.


5)cOOK A MIN OR 2 AND ADD THE COOKED LENTILS WITH THE SOME WATER IF REQUIRED(lentils really thicken as they cool)


BRING TO A QUICK BOIL AND SIMMER A FEW MINS TILL DONE....

fANTASTIC EITHER WITH STEAMED BASMATI RICE OR ROTIS....

You wanna have a peekabo of all the delicious then stop by right HERE

Am also linking this lovely lentil with greens to the lovely Chaya's blog,sweet and savoury for MEATLESS MONDAYS....if u have a recipe do link up to so we can have a delicious potluck of veggie delights........