My parents have decided to grace us with a visit and we are thrilled.. babysitters onboard! Yeaahoo. Time for us to party. Along with the unlimited and free babysitting services comes some good ole home cooking. My mom has some dishes that she’s great at..and then some that are..yeah. well you know how those are. This time around she’s mastered a dish we absolutely loved at the Mumbai Breach Candy club during our recent visit. So I thought I’d share it with all you Okra (Ladies Finger) lovers. In addition, my mom is a vegetarian, the kind that loves grass and tofu and soy. One of her regular dishes is a soy meat curry. Dehydrated soy meat is available at all supermarkets in Sri Lanka and that’s where I get my stash from but I’ve been told that they are just as easily available in North America. So in honour of Mother’s Day here’s some vegetarian dishes in honour of mine.
Awesome Okra
Heat a teaspoon of oil in a pan, add 2 finely chopped onions, a grated inch of ginger, 10 garlic cloves grated and 4 thinly sliced green chillies and sauté till translucent. Then add 2 finely chopped tomatoes, 2 tablespoons of garam masala, 1 teaspoon of vinegar, 5 tablespoons of yoghurt, curry leaves, 1 inch of lemongrass, chilli powder to taste and continue cooking on medium till the mixture thickens. This is now the ‘curry’ that will be lining the bowl (about 2 inches worth of it). Top it off with fried (yeap..no one said my mom cooks healthy!) thinly sliced ladies fingers (about 1/2 kg). This dish is absolutely delicious and is the perfect veg dish to accompany a rice and meat curry.
Soy Meat Curry
Boil water and soak soy meat for 5 mins. Squeeze the water out and add a tablespoon of roasted curry powder, pinch of salt and saffron, a teaspoon of vinegar and chilli to taste and mix well. Heat oil and sauté one chopped onion, five cloves of garlic and an inch of grated ginger. Toss in some curry leaves and then add soy meat (with the spices). Cook this for about ten minutes and a cup of milk. Get this to boiling and then voila! You’re done!
Hope you peeps enjoy these veggie recipes in honour of Mother’s Day!
