Recipe: Vegan Butter Chicken

Vegan Butter Chicken
This is a healthy and inexpensive recipe for vegan curry. The making of this dish was recorded through Twitter’s new Vine app and photographed using Instagram

Ingredients

-Rice
-Onion
-Ginger
-Garlic
-Mixed vegetable
  -Pumpkin
  -Cauliflower
  -Carrot
  -Tomato
-Butter chicken seasoning
-Margarine
-Lentils
-Coconut cream

  


Instructions
Step 1
Cook rice, follow instructions on back of the packet or use a rice cooker

Step 2
Prepare all your ingredients
 -Dice onion, crush garlic and ginger
 -Cut pumpkin and cauliflower into bite sized cubes
 -Dice up fresh tomato
 -Dice carrot small, and dice up any other vegetables you are using.




Step 3
Boil pumpkin and cauliflower until fully cooked. Add any other vegetable that needs pre-cooking (e.g. potato, broccoli, sweet potato etc)

Step 4
Melt margarine in a fry pan and add onion. Cook until softened then add garlic and ginger

Step 5
Once it starts to smell yummy, add the tomato 
TIP: if the pan gets too dry add a splash of the pumpkin water

Step 6
Add your vegetables and stir to incorporate
TIP: save the pumpkin water to use as a stock, it add more flavour than water and avoids wastage


Step 7
Sprinkle in a couple of tablespoons of seasoning. Add just enough to coat, put in less than you think as you can always add more later.
If you want ease and don't mind dairy, you can add stir through sauce, it's still delicious

Step 8
Add pumpkin water, lentils and a drizzle of coconut cream and let simmer.
TIP: Coconut cream adds the desired creamy texture while still being vegan. If you are not worried about animal content, add unsweetened double cream.

Step 9
It’s done, just add a dollop of margarine and serve on rice
TIP: Sauce can last for a ages in the fridge (or freezer) and doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge or re-heated when planning work lunches.

Bon Appetit

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