The side dishes
Cheesy peas - almost certainly more properly known as matar paneer, but always cheesy peas in our house!
Ingredients
1 tbsp each butter & oil
1 clove of garlic
2 -3 small shallots (or an onion, leek, whatever...)
1/2 tsp each ground cumin, ground coriander, ground turmeric, garam masala & ground ginger (or an inch-long chunk of fresh, finely chopped)
chilli to taste
2-3 cups frozen peas
1-2 cups passata or canned tomatoes
cheese - ideally paneer, but wensleydale, feta or halloumi work too. Cut into bite-size chunks. This time out, I'm going with fresh mozzarella, just because it's what I've got in the fridge and it's piddling down out there!
Method
Crush & chop garlic & shallots and sweat in half of the oil/ butter mix. Once softened, stir in the spices the add the peas & passata. Simmer gently for at least 15 minutes (but it won't come to any harm if it's left longer.)
In a separate pan, heat the remaining oil & butter and quickly fry the chunks of cheese - when ready to serve, stir these into the peas.
Cucumber raita
Mix chopped cucumber, finely chopped mint and a little salt into plain yoghurt to make a cooling relish.
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Hello Mel, So when can I come to your house for curry night? This all looks delicious. Good luck in your new house and thanks so much for entering my cookbook give away competition.
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