Simple Curry

Put on rice to boil.:  half cup rice and 1.5 cups water for 2 people. Bring to proper boil with lid on and turn off, keeping tight lid on and leave on hot plate until serving. Good on electric cooker. On gas, up to boil and then lowest flame possible for 15 minutes. Or cover with clingfilm  with a hole poked in it, and  put into microwave,  for about 8 minutes. |Or any way you like. Forget the rice until ready to serve.

Chop and fry any mix of veges. Use a veg oil.

Thisamount is enough for 2 people.

I use an old steel wok, because if you cook curry in one of these, you get a big hit of iron. Useful, if like me, you have a form of anaemia. (Info, care of 'my' consultant, Glos. Royal. Recommended once a week, give or take. Let the pan rust between uses, that is, don't oil it).

Put together this lot: chilli, ginger, wild garlic (or a couple of cloves of garlic, though it wont come out .baby poo green' in colour), 4T yoghurt.

And about 2t flour (stops the yoghurt separating when it gets hot, plus thickens)..

Whizz together.

Hmm, very green. It wont be green if you use garlic cloves.


Move stuff in pan to one side and add a bit more oil. Hold pan at an angle to puddle the oil. Drop in a t of these ..

Wait for them to pop. Lid on! Keep over heat, but don't burn.

Add 1t each of these spices to the seeds.

Cook for about 10 - 30  secs

Watch as the spices  bubble, before you stir them into the veges.Cook for about 1 minute more.

Add the whizzed  mixture.

Lid on, cook for between 10 minutes and an hour. How long's a piece of string?! How hungry are you? How long have you got?! Stir from time to time, avoid burning your curry, it's the pits.

Add 1t Garam Masala and salt to taste..

Either serve now, or add fish.

Cook until fish (Pollack))  is just underdone, it will continue to cook until you eat it.

Serve in kitchen, Take photo. Carry, with pride to the table. On the way there, fall over wood left lying around  in living room. End up having a couple of forkfuls each.....and then get  a takeaway having, first,  dustpanned up your meal from the floor and washed it off the radiator, walls, table. floor, new plaster board et al. Sob!

It was, however, very garlic, very curry, very messy.