Tonight, Megan, we made an Indian stir-fry!
To be precise it was Kadhai Paneer – stir fry of Paneer cheese with peppers.
This is one of those dishes that needs a fair but of effort in constructing a sauce, and then you chuck the final dish together at the end. So this morning I was feeling a bit bored and got stuck into the sauce early. I’m really glad I did, and the prep seemed to go on for far too long when you compare it to the list of ingredients, and then the cooking of it took even longer! If we’d started cooking at our normal time I think we might have expired with hunger by now!
Anyway, on to the checklist…
- It was a stir fry of Paneer cheese with peppers, as I think I’ve mentioned.
- The ingredients we didn’t have were dried fenugreek leaves, so we skipped them. I also went a bit easier on the chillis than the recipe suggested, as I didn’t want Bec accusing me of trying to knock her block off!….
- The only thing that confused me about the recipe was… Well, not really confused me, but it was one of those recipes where a whole lot of things are in weights, not volumes. How many cloves is 30g garlic anyway?! I’m glad we had scales handy!
- But on the whole the recipe was pretty clear, as usual. It just would have been more helpful to have some idea how long it would take, especially if you were looking through the book later at night and thought it sounded good for a quick dinner… It ain’t!
- If I made it again what I’d do differently is get someone else to help with the prep! I was really sick of “finely chopping” stuff by the end of it!
- We had it with nothing else, other than a glass of Chardonnay, and it really didn’t need anything else.
- If we had it again I’d have it with nothing else again!
- On a scale of 1-10 we’d give it a 9 (only to give for something amazing still to come…)
- see yesterday.
- see yesterday
- I’d definitely make it again! Well, Bec is saying “I’d definitely have Mike make it again!”. Which is just as well, as I decided right at the start that I would make enough sauce for 2 meals and shove one lot in the fridge. So we have another really quick and easy meal coming up one night soon. Yay!
