What vegetables do you serve with a curry & rice dinner. Served with not in the curry. Friends are coming over for dinner in a couple of days and thought I would make one. I'll do some garlic bread as well.

Edited by rai5 at 6:48 pm, Tue 23 Apr

rai5 - 2019-04-23 18:47:00

If you have to have vegetables with a curry, I could handle green beans, or kumera, or potato, or pumpkin. Any more for any more, anybody?

rainrain1 - 2019-04-23 19:08:00

If you have to have vegetables with a curry, I could handle green beans, or kumera, or potato, or pumpkin. Any more for any more, anybody? Please don't anybody say cauliflower.

rainrain1 - 2019-04-23 19:09:00

What sort of curry? (THai or Indian etc) - meat or fish.
Oh, try grilled garlic pita breads rather than a French loaf garlic bread. (Danny's garlic pitas I do recommend).

Edited by unknowndisorder at 7:15 pm, Tue 23 Apr

unknowndisorder - 2019-04-23 19:13:00

Yes thanks, I have used garlic pita before, so I might use that. I will probably do a chicken curry, but definitely not fish. (My husband might think that curry spoils the fish!)

rai5 - 2019-04-23 19:29:00

rai5 wrote:

Yes thanks, I have used garlic pita before, so I might use that. I will probably do a chicken curry, but definitely not fish. (My husband might think that curry spoils the fish!)

My husband would think that too

rainrain1 - 2019-04-23 19:34:00

Beans, courgettes, carrots, not heavy veges. With meat I would use heavy veges (my definition of things like Kumara and pumpkin).

unknowndisorder - 2019-04-23 20:30:00

why not do what the UK does serve with chips, cant get my head around that one

slimgym - 2019-04-24 03:36:00

Aloo gobi is nice. The link recipe below is similar to the one I somtimes make. I don't add tomatoes to it but often add some chopped spinach. Sometimes I use chopped pumpkin instead of potaotes. It's very nice reheated next day too.
https://www.cookwithmanali.com/aloo-gobi/

nauru - 2019-04-24 14:57:00

Aloo Gobi is a good idea. Here are a few other suggestions; it all depends on what kind of curry your main dish is - is it creamy? Tomatoey? Dry or wet? Choose a vege dish that is complementary, not similar.

Spiced Pumpkin and Cabbage with Coconut Milk

2 tab coconut oil
1 large onion, thinly sliced
4 cloves garlic, chopped
6cm piece of ginger, peeled and julienned or grated
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
2 tsp coriander seeds
2 tsp cumin seeds
1 stick cinnamon
1 heaped tsp turmeric powder
10 curry leaves
6 pandanus leaves (tied in a knot)
1 tsp chilli flakes
500 - 600 ml coconut milk
1 tsp salt
500g pumpkin, skin on, in 2 cm chunks
1/4 large cabbage finely sliced

Heat the oil in a large pan, fry onion, ginger and garlic over medium heat about 10 minutes until soft and starting to brown. Add spices and curry leaves and stir a few minutes until the spices are fragrant. Add pandanus, chilli, coconut milk, salt and pumpkin, combine well, cover and simmer about 20 minutes until the pumpkin is tender. Add cabbage and cover, cook about 10 minutes until the cabbage is tender. Check salt, serve hot.

Spinach/Silver beet with Yoghurt

serves 4

2 bags spinach/10 - 20 silver beet leaves
30g ghee
2 tsp black mustard seeds
¼ tsp fenugreek seeds
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ tsp chilli flakes
1 tab brown sugar (optional)
500g plain thick yoghurt

Cook leaves, squeeze and chop.

Melt ghee, add spices and sugar, stir a few minutes until seeds pop.

Add leaves and yoghurt, stir until heated. Do not boil.

Okra and Tomato Curry (Sri Lanka)

serves 6

400 g okra (about 20 large)
16 cherry tomatoes, halved
6 small shallots
2 green chillies cut into thirds
2 sprigs curry leaves
2 tsp tumeric powder
2 tsp Sri Lankan roasted curry powder
2 tso salt
2 tab coconut oil
125 ml coconut milk

Trim okra, slice diagonally into three pieces. Combine with all except oil and coconut milk.

Heat oil in a heavy pan over medium heat, add okra mixture, cook 5 min. Add coconut milk, cover, reduce heat to low and cook 10 min or until tender.

Mixed Vegetable & Coconut Stew

Serves 4

2 carrots in thin batons
1 courgette in thin batons
200g green beans cut in half
1 med potato in thin batons
1 tab veg. oil
1 large onion thinly sliced
½ tsp black mustard seeds
8 curry leaves
1 green chilli thinly sliced
1 tsp poppy seeds
200 ml coconut milk
juice half lemon
150 ml water
salt
chopped coriander leaves

Cut veges into bowl of cold water.

Heat oil & fry onion 5 min, add mustard seeds, curry leaves & chilli, fry 3 min.
Add veges and everything except coriander. Cook gently 6 – 8 min until just tender. Add coriander.

davidt4 - 2019-04-24 15:24:00

Thanks everyone. Good ideas and things I hadn't thought about.

rai5 - 2019-04-24 19:32:00