Spicy Vegetable Curry With Black-Eyed Peas

I made the second attempt of these black-eyed peas mixed vegetable curry, but... this time is the spicy version.

Instead of broccoli which I used on my earlier post, I replaced it with potatoes chunks which is husband favorite!

The cooking method is similar to the earlier post; I merely added more of the raw mustard seeds, two cut green chilies, one tablespoon of each of curry powder and chili powder.

Somehow... the colors and photos looked the same, but this version was spicy which goes so well with rice or bread!

Black-Eyed Peas Mixed Vegetable Curry

I recalled the last time I posted black-eyed peas was quite some times ago, and that was of a Chinese soup which I duplicated after I came back from my Hong Kong trip.

Last night, I decided to try soaking some black-eyed peas for an Indian style curry which I came across on a magazine, a couple of months ago. Though I can only recalled that they uses cumin and turmeric powder; I decided to do a hands-on trial on my own version since I have some spices left in the fridge!

I tried to make use of most of my vegetables found in my fridge... in the end, I have created a pot of very delicious and nutritious black-eyed mixed vegetables curry!

This version of curry is non-spicy which is suitable for kids who love curry with spices. If you love spicy curry, I would suggest adding some fresh cut green chilies or either chili powder into it! ^^


Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins (approx.)
Soaking time: 8 hrs or overnight

Ingredients

1 cup of black-eyed peas - pre-soaked 8hrs or overnight(drained)
2 cup of water for boiling the peas
2 medium tomatoes, finely chopped
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp raw mustard seeds
1 tsp Masterfood wholegrain mustard seeds
1 tbsp of cooking oil
salt - as per own preference
1/2 cup water
some chopped french beans
some chopped broccoli
some cut celery

Method
Soak black-eyed peas overnight or minimum eight hours. Wash them and cook with two cups of water and a pinch of salt for 20mins. Drain and keep aside.

In a separate pot, heat oil and add cumin and raw mustard seeds. Let it fry for a min. Fry till the some mustard seeds start popping.

Add the hard stems of broccoli, follow by chopped tomatoes, french beans, celery and cook for 5 mins. Add the cooked black eyes peas and stir well till as the ingredients are mixed well.

Add turmeric powder and wholegrain mustard seeds. Add in half cup water and let it simmer on low flame for 5 minutes. Finally, add in the chopped broccoli and continue to simmer till all flavors blend well. Add salt to taste.

Garnish with some Chinese parsley and serve with rice or any bread.

Vegetarian Mee Goreng...Again

I mentioned on my earlier post that we bought the wrong type of green peas for our Indian vegetarian mee goreng. And while I was at the supermarket yesterday, I make sure that I remember to buy another brand of the peas so that we can cook our mee goreng again. In the end, I chose the Wattie's brand since I have used them for cooking fried rice.

Yummilicious... ^^

Ingredients
500g Yellow noodles
200g beansprouts - washed
200g Chye Sim - wash and cut into 2cm
4 tbsp peas
2 tomatoes - washed and diced
2 potatoes - cooked and cut to chunks
1 tbsp curry powder

Seasonings
5 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp chilli sauce
1/2 tbsp sugar

Method

With some oil, fry the curry powder. Add in potatoes, vegetables, tomatoes, peas and beansprouts, stir & mixed well. After 2 minute, add in noodles and followed by seasonings and fry till well-mixed. Serve hot with slices of cucumbers and/or squeeze some lime juice on top of noodles.

Vegetarian Indian Mee Goreng

Husband cooked this Indian style vegetarian fried noodles aka Mee Goreng, for dinner today. He used the recipe from our previous vegetarian cooking lesson. In fact, the recipe we had was a very direct one; and not forgetting with the cooking lesson we attended...it makes it much easier for him handle the job.

His mee goreng was really yummy... I told him that, his is better than what we had from the hawker centre. Well, the only imperfection was the hard and tasteless peas which we bought from the supermarket..... I guess it may be a pack which was already left for too long, for sure I have already marked that in my mind, not to buy the same brand ever again (*o*")