Spicy Potato and Spinach Curry Thing
by askandy
Get these things:
- 800g potatoes (such as Red Rascal), peeled, cut into 4cm pieces
- Olive oil
- 1 large shallot
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 fresh long green chilli
- 1 tsp garam masala (ed. apparently this is “just a spice; you can get it anywhere”)
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- Tomatoes
- 150g baby spinach leaves
- Crushed walnuts to serve
Now the great thing about this dish, apart from its rich, spicy flavours is that because it have lots of potatoes in you don’t need to have rice too unless you really want to. Its a one potter.
So first up, do your prep, get everything peeled, sliced and crush up the herbs and some oil.
Now get the potatoes on in some water and bring to the boils, give them about 4 mins just to soften them a bit and release some of that starch. Drain them and set aside.
In the same pot heat the oil / herb mixture, get it nice and hot. But be careful, the spices can burn fairly easily, so keep it moving and don’t blast it. Now get the shallots in and cook until they start to change colour, but don’t brown them, god no. About 4 mins.
Now get the tomatoes in, give them a blast, add the potatoes and brown the whole thing up a bit.
Its spinach time. First give it a good old wash (unless of course you are fancy and got the pre washed stuff from St Michaels). Don’t skimp here or you will end up with grit in your curry.
Add the spinach to the pot, slop in a little water, cover it and lets leave it for 15 mins.
OK
Give it a big old stir up, into a bowl and sprinkle with a nice amount of chopped walnuts.
Put Family Fortunes on the telly and Eat it.
