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Roasted Pumpkin and Coconut Curry with Spinach and Water Chestnuts


Roasted Pumpkin and Coconut Curry with Spinach and Water Chestnuts

Anna's best veggie meal for a meat eater ...

Serves 4

Ingredients

Curry paste

  • 3 Asian shallots
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped galangal
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped garlic
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped ginger
  • 3 green chillies
  • Rind of one lemon
  • 10 Coriander roots
  • 1 teaspoon Shrimp paste
  • ½ teaspoon Black pepper corns
  • 2 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 3 Tablespoon Veg oil to mix

Curry sauce

  • Peanut oil for frying
  • 6 shallots sliced
  • 1 Tablespoon ginger, chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 chilli, thinly sliced
  • 2 lemongrass, finely chopped
  • 2 heaped spoons of curry paste
  • 4 to 5 cans coconut milk
  • 4 Kaffir lime leaves
  • 1 Tablespoon Fish sauce
  • Squeeze of lime juice
  • 2 teaspoons Palm sugar

Pumpkin and spinach

  • ½ Japanese pumpkin, peeled and cubed
  • Peanut oil
  • 3 bunches English spinach
  • 1 can drained water chestnuts
  • Fresh coriander and basil

Method

Curry paste

  1. Blend all together in food processor

Curry sauce

  1. Heat a heavy based pot or wok with peanut oil.
  2. Sauté shallots, ginger, garlic, chilli, lemongrass and curry paste for a few minutes until soft, don’t burn.
  3. Add coconut milk and kaffir lime leaves and simmer for about 20 minutes for flavours to infuse and sauce to reduce a little.
  4. Add squirt of fish sauce, lime juice and sugar to taste

Pumpkin and spinach

  1. Bake pumpkin (200C) in well oiled non stick baking tray until just cooked, but still firm.
  2. Blanch spinach and drain.
  3. Add pumpkin, spinach, water chestnuts to hot curry sauce and simmer until veg are totally heated through. Stir in fresh herbs at end.
  4. Serve with jasmine rice
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Notes & Tips

Note if your vegetarians won’t eat shrimp paste or fish sauce, the best substitute to add flavour is celery salt and half a vege stock cube.

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