We've been talking about buying a DSLR in the future, maybe in a year or two, so its heaven to get one fo free.
Here are my favorite shots from this weekend. Taken by Dave and I.
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Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230
degrees C).
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Place eggplant on a medium baking
sheet. Bake 20 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until tender. Remove from
heat, cool, peel, and chop.
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Heat oil in a medium saucepan over
medium heat. Mix in cumin seeds and onion. Cook and stir until onion is
tender.
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Mix ginger garlic paste, curry
powder, and tomato into the saucepan, and cook about 1 minute. Stir in
yogurt. Mix in eggplant and jalapeno pepper, and season with salt. Cover, and
cook 10 minutes over high heat. Remove cover, reduce heat to low, and
continue cooking about 5 minutes. Garnish with cilantro to serve.
First of all, I crock-potted this beast. I'm in love with my crockpot right now, probably because its so dang cold and humid here. One hour high, and then on low five ish hours. So I just peeled and chopped the eggplant and threw it in the pot. BTW, how weird are eggplants.
I used ground cumin,1 tsp chopped garlic and 1/2 tsp of ginger and Greek yogurt.
If this would have been any other type of cuisine(something I've made or actually eaten before) I probably would've made some more changes, but I decided to try this recipe as closely as possible for my first Indian experience.
I also made naan, a slightly puffy, grilled, pita type thing. Here is the recipe I used, also from allrecipes.com.
Final Product and Review:
Dave and I LOVED the naan, we were stuffing out faces with it right off the grill, so I made some brown rice to put the eggplant curry on, just in case we ate all the naan.
These naan are too thin for my taste, I found that I liked them a little thicker, and puffier, but all the comments on allrecipes said to "make sure" you rolled the dough out enough, I think maybe I just got a little carried away. I also had to chill the dough instead of rolling and grilling immediately so that might have factored in as well. Honestly? I kinda think it looks like barf, smells a little like barf (with a whole bunch of curry). Not really a fan, we kept taking small bites and then looking at each other to see if we were going to keep eating. I didn't hate it. I just didn't like it. Oh well, I found out I really LOVE naan, so I'll be making that again. If you like Indian food and all the curry, I won't hold it against you :) Hope its nice where you are :) |