Apple Challenge: Fruit Curry & Apple Salad
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weekly_food_challengeTwo entirely improvised apple dishes (the nigh-only times I cook from pre-existing recipes is when I'm making something I developed myself in the first place):
First up: a fruit curry. This recipe is a very definite work in progress as yet, so no precise instructions. (Really need to rethink the veg -- or leave them out altogether, the baby corn aside -- if I do this one again.) Also, normally I'll snob it up with this kind of thing and do the curry from scratch (read: odds are that's what I'll do in a possible take 2 and on), but I was lazy and used a ready-made paste this time.
Ingredients used:
Mango purée, yellow thai curry paste, orange, apple (2 Granny Smiths), pineapple, cashew nuts, cucumber (outright unfortunate addition, sigh), baby corn, broccoli (borderline questionable), chicken, plus rice noodles to go with. I pre-steamed the baby corn and broccoli to cut down on their cooking time, since everything else was a lot quicker-cooking.
It came out pretty good (sore thumbiness of the cucumber in spite), but there's still fair room for improvement in the flavours, heh. Will have to have another go (or three) at it and see if I can get it up to standard!
I also made an apple salad (it was my fallback in case I wouldn't have the opportunity to go shop for the fruit curry in time):
Used:
Lettuces: Cosmopolitan (half a head), Mini Romaine and Mini Cresta
2 apples (sort: Idared)
Seeds: pumpkin, sunflower and pine nuts
Cubed mature cheddar
(The apple did a surprisingly impressive job of cancelling out the cheese's pungency; the difference between a bite with only cheese in and one with both cheese and apple in was remarkable.)
First up: a fruit curry. This recipe is a very definite work in progress as yet, so no precise instructions. (Really need to rethink the veg -- or leave them out altogether, the baby corn aside -- if I do this one again.) Also, normally I'll snob it up with this kind of thing and do the curry from scratch (read: odds are that's what I'll do in a possible take 2 and on), but I was lazy and used a ready-made paste this time.
Ingredients used:
Mango purée, yellow thai curry paste, orange, apple (2 Granny Smiths), pineapple, cashew nuts, cucumber (outright unfortunate addition, sigh), baby corn, broccoli (borderline questionable), chicken, plus rice noodles to go with. I pre-steamed the baby corn and broccoli to cut down on their cooking time, since everything else was a lot quicker-cooking.
It came out pretty good (sore thumbiness of the cucumber in spite), but there's still fair room for improvement in the flavours, heh. Will have to have another go (or three) at it and see if I can get it up to standard!
I also made an apple salad (it was my fallback in case I wouldn't have the opportunity to go shop for the fruit curry in time):
Used:
Lettuces: Cosmopolitan (half a head), Mini Romaine and Mini Cresta
2 apples (sort: Idared)
Seeds: pumpkin, sunflower and pine nuts
Cubed mature cheddar
(The apple did a surprisingly impressive job of cancelling out the cheese's pungency; the difference between a bite with only cheese in and one with both cheese and apple in was remarkable.)
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Date: Friday, March 2nd, 2012 01:22 am (UTC)Can't go wrong with a good ol' salad. Love the trio of seeds there
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Date: Friday, March 2nd, 2012 06:07 pm (UTC)(Hmm, I wonder if bamboo shoots and/or water chestnuts might be an idea, actually...)
Pre-packaged salad seed mixes: gotta love 'em. :D