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

Welcome to Social Studios’ Vine cooking experiment. Before you start on what I can assume will be a crazy, laughter filled journey there are a few things I feel I should say.

Firstly, let me introduce myself, I am Kate Doyle,

 

I am a Roller Derby Official (Photo courtesy of Roaringstorm Photography)

film maker

 

And first and foremost; managing director of a little a little studio I like to call social.

This business focuses on using video to help build branding and overall web presence for small companies, bloggers and individuals.

So why am I doing this, and what on earth is it? A couple of weeks ago (specifically the 29^th of January) Twitter launched a new application called Vine. I like to say that Vine is to Youtube what Twitter is to Facebook. While it may not ruin Youtube all together, it will certainly change the way people blog and share their life experiences with friends or strangers. Now I am not a Twitter user, and I only just got into Instagram, however I’ve decided to go against my late adopting nature and jump in head first into learning the ins and outs, positives and negatives and basically how to use Vine, so that I can deliver to my clients the most current marketing strategies and fads.

I have gone overboard however, and decided not only to post on Vine and Twitter, but to also share these posts on my personal Facebook page and photograph using my personal Instagram account. THEN take all this and edit together a Youtube video (not sure it’s possible, hence the word ‘experiment’) and write a full blog post which follows each step.

I will also preface that even though I am doing this for my work, I am not going to be 100% professional, meaning I will be myself, tell jokes in my own humour and be the crazy irrelevant self that my friends know me for.

And before I sign off and give all the links and call to actions and all that technical stuff, I first need to point out that even though I have said it is vegan butter chicken, due to my local shopping center (bloody Metro) not stocking butter chicken seasoning ANYWHERE (something that I used to sell in my past life as a deli manager, so I know it exists), I will be using an alternative seasoning mix, but it will still be the same…. I promise….

So links!

 

@SocialStudiosAu #SSocialExperiment  #VineCookingSS

 

#SSocialExperiment #VineCookingSS

 

 @DotDoyle

 

/SocialStudiosau

 

 SocialStudiosau.blogspot.com

 

SocialStudiosau

Website – www.socialstudios.com.au

Email – kate@socialstudios.com.au

How you can get involved: This is a live streamed event, however due to the amazing permanent nature of the internet, you will still be able to follow in your own time. During the ‘broadcast’ I will be following all the feeds and answering any questions, giving tips and generally interacting with you at home. So get posting, commenting and @tagging and all those other things and get involved.