This is a dish best enjoyed with roti, where you can use the roti to wipe up the gravy. You can if you want to use a tin of plain butter beans, but I find it tastes better and there are way more loads of gravy if you use the curried tin of butter beans. … Continue reading Butter beans curry

This is my go to Friday fasting special especially on those cold lazy days when cooking is the last thing on my mind. It goes perfect with fried chips.   Ingredients: 1 x 410g tin Koo baked beans in tomatoe sauce. 1 x onion, chopped. 1 x tsp Bombay delight masala. 1 x tsp Chowman’s … Continue reading Bake beans curry

I love this braised pumpkin. I seem to be the only one who can eat the entire dish come prayer time. When I first made it, it was like pumpkin soup because I added so much water. But now that I know you supposed add only a little at a time I have become an … Continue reading Braised pumpkin

Another recipe link that I got off the Mela website. I love to make this recipe because normally when I use mushrooms in a curry they tend to shrink, but not in this recipe. Ingredients 50ml sunflower oil 5ml mustard seeds 5ml cumin seeds 1 onion, finely chopped Salt to taste 10ml crushed garlic 10ml … Continue reading Mushroom and spinach curry

Spinach curry is better known as herb curry... When I found out this fact, it confused the living day lights out of me. In Durban apparently you can go to the market and buy herbs, but here in the windy city we are not so luck so we use spinach leaves instead. The trick here, … Continue reading Spinach curry

This is temple food. Every temple service you can bet your last chocolate chip cookie there will be braised cabbage. My dad taught me how to make this. He cooks in the temple for services so his a little more clued up how to make temple food than I am. Let's just say that before … Continue reading Braised cabbage

This chutney has eluded me for so long. But I have finally got the nick of it. It is a perfect side dish to go with Kichari... the recipe on how to make kichari can also be found on the blog under the rice section. If you want a stronger option you are more than … Continue reading Potatoe chutney