After deciding betwixt a craving for broccoli or cauliflower, I settled on the subtler tasting cauliflower equally I wanted a curry also too this vegetable is a perfect vehicle to bear a spicy bouquet. I've for sure been making a to a greater extent than concerted endeavor of belatedly to come upwardly up amongst fancier vegetable sides to larn along amongst meals needing an extra dose of veg. The wages of this i is it comes together inwards hardly anytime at all i time your prep is done. And it adds elegance too flare to the dinner table.
If desired, add together a few handfuls of spinach nigh the halt of the cooking fourth dimension earlier adding the chickpea flour too simmer gently until wilted for extra season too earthiness.
 Gently Simmered Cauliflower inwards a Spicy Tomato Sauce |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on May 21, 2014
Tender pieces of fresh cauliflower simmered inwards a spicy, fragrant too delicious Indian-style love apple tree sauce
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons sesame stone oil or other oil
- 1 modest scarlet onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 inch slice fresh ginger, minced or grated
- 1 jalapeño, seeded too diced
- 1 fresh scarlet chili, seeded too diced
- 1/2 tablespoon footing coriander
- 2 teaspoons footing cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 teaspoon body of body of water salt, or to taste
- 1 1/2 lbs (675 g) cauliflower, trimmed too cutting into uniform bite-size florets
- 3 medium tomatoes, diced
- 1/2 to 1 loving cup water
- 2/3 teaspoon garam masala
- 1/3 loving cup fresh parsley or cilantro, finely chopped
- 2 to three tablespoons toasted chickpea flour (see banker's complaint below)
Instructions:
Heat the stone oil inwards a large saucepan over medium heat. When hot, Add the onion too sauté until it begins to soften — almost v minutes. Add the garlic, ginger, jalapeño too chili to the pan too stir for unopen to other few minutes. Now toss inwards the footing corander, footing cumin, turmeric, mustard pulverization too cayenne, too stir for unopen to other minute. Stir inwards the tabular array salt too add together a few spoonfuls of tomato. Stir to deglaze the pan too and therefore add together the cauliflower. Stir to coat too and therefore add together the balance of the tomatoes along amongst 1/2 loving cup of water. Bring to a boil, adding to a greater extent than H2O equally necessary. Reduce the oestrus to medium-low too cover. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the cauliflower is fork tender — almost 12 to fifteen minutes. Stir inwards the garam masala too one-half of the chopped parsley or cilantro. Sprinkle inwards a unopen to of the toasted chickpea flour too stir good to combine. Add to a greater extent than to accomplish your desired thickness. Simmer gently for unopen to other few minutes. Stir inwards the balance of the parsley or cilantro too serve hot.
Makes 4 to half dozen side servings
Note: I consulted a few recipes land drafting this recipe too i chemical cistron of the dish I was inspired to add together was the toasted chickpea flour. Thanks to Raghavan Iyer, writer of 660 Curries too Indian Cooking Unfolded for the inspiration. It is non necessary for the dish but it thickens upwardly the sauce too adds a flake of nuttiness. You many also simply sprinkle inwards a flake of chickpea flour or other flour to thicken or add together less H2O too simmer downwards the love apple tree sauce earlier adding the cauliflower. If y'all produce want to toast the chickpea flour, oestrus a large non-stick skillet over medium-heat. Add a loving cup of sifted chickpea flour too stir, constantly, scraping the bottom of the pan therefore that the flour doesn't clump for almost fifteen minutes or until it turns a reddish brownish too gives off a nutty aroma. Cool completely earlier storing inwards a well-sealed offend inwards the refrigerator. This is a neat improver to a broad array of curries too soups. The toasted flour volition piece of occupation on for at to the lowest degree half dozen months.
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