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If you want to try something new this week, get inspired by Nisha Katona’s indian dishes: two delicious gluten free vegetarian recipes that you can easily prepare using any combination of vegetables.

by Nisha Katona

Vegetable Bhajis (or Vegetable “Offcut” Bhajis)
These golden nuggets of nutty spiced sweet warmth are a great way of using up the bits of vegetables that don’t make the beauty contest grade. My mother’s favourite participants are the stalks of broccoli and cauliflower and the leaves from the top of beetroot and radish. The truth is that soft, limp, fridge weary vegetables perks up to crisp and flavourful when prepared this way. These bhajis can be made in advance and simply reheated and crisped up in the oven. They also freeze brilliantly.  The added advantage is they are completely gluten free and technically vegan! How healthy is that!

broccoli bhaji

Vegetable Bhajis

Ingredients: 1 Cup of Gram Flour; 1/4 teaspoon on baking powder; 2 heaped teaspoons garamasala; 1 teaspoon; ground coriander; water ; vegetable or groundnut oil; salt to taste; coriander leaf; 1 chopped green chili or a touch of chili powder; shards of vegetable roughly cut into any size.

Method:

  • Add all the dry ingredients into a bowl except for the vegetables. Add enough water to make a mixture of the consistency of thick pancake batter. The mixture should be just thick enough NOT to drop too quickly off the spoon.
  • Add in your chopped vegetables, chopped coriander leaf and chili.
  • Heat the oil and drop spoonfuls of the mixture in to deep fry. When they are evenly golden, they are done.

You can find the video lesson of this recipe on Nisha Katona’s website.

Gluten- Free Tangy Cumin Vegetable Curry
This is a staple dish in many Indian households, where no part of the vegetable is wasted. Stalks, leaves, seed pods are all valued and treated as main ingredients. In a hot and arid subcontinent, vegetables are not picture perfect and the citrus perfumed cumin can transform the humblest vegetable. A very common method for producing ‘tang’ in curry is adding dilute English mustard paste to a dish. The heady dramatic flavours in this curry turn tired wilted vegetables into a centrepiece dish.

Ingredients: Assorted vegetables cut into 1 inch chunks; 1 tbsp vegetable or ground nut oil; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 1/2 teaspoon turmeric ; 1/4 teaspoon chili powder; 1/2 tin chopped tomato; 1 heaped dessert spoon of English mustard paste watered down into 1/4 of a cup; salt; 1/2 teaspoon sugar; 1/4 cup of cashew nuts (optional); chopped coriander leaf to garnish

Method:

  • Heat the oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds. Once they finish frying, add the vegetable chunks, prioritizing  the tougher vegetables.
  • Once they begin to soften, add the turmeric,chili, salt and sugar.
  • After about 5 minutes add the tomato and simmer the dish until the hardest vegetable is cooked to your taste.  If you wish to add cashew nuts, do so now.
  • Add the mustard paste and simmer for 2 more minutes.
  • Garnish with chopped coriander, if you have it.

This can be served as a main course with rice/chapattis/wraps or as a side dish with any meal.

You can find the video lesson of this recipe on Nisha Katona’s website.

About the Author: Nisha Katona is a food writer, Indian Cookery teacher and founder of Mowgli pataks_nisha_squar_2852765bStreet food. She has series of Youtube video tutorials that have a worldwide following. She has over  22000 twitter followers for her daily recipes and live Curry Clinics. She has recently worked on a filming project with Food Network. Professionally Nisha has worked as a Barrister for over 20 years in the area of Child Protection. In 2008 the Department of Culture, Media and Sport appointed her as trustee of National Museums Liverpool and in 2009, the Cabinet Office appointed her as an Ambassador for Diversity in Public Appointments, and in this capacity has been engaged as an expert advisor by The Guardian newspaper.

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From Beverley LeBlanc’s I LOVE MY SLOW COOKER

Get them started first thing Saturday morning for the perfect slow-cooked supper for all the family with these delicious Beef Burritos from Beverley LeBlanc’s I Love My Slow Cooker.

BEEF BURRITOS

Serves: 4
Preparation time:20 minutes
Cooking time:10 hours on Low

4 large garlic cloves, peeled
1 tbsp dried oregano
1 tbsp sweet paprika
1 tbsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
2 tbsp sunflower oil
700g/1lb 9oz skirt steak, halved lengthways, then quartered
450g/1lb tomatoes, coarsely chopped
2 red peppers, halved lengthways, deseeded and coarsely chopped
4 tbsp passata
1 tsp hot pickled jalapeño chillies, or to taste
several coriander sprigs, leaves and stalks separated, with the stalks tied together
1 bay leaf
8 flour tortillas
salt and freshly ground black pepper

FILLINGS (OPTIONAL)
coarsely grated Cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese
pitted black olives, sliced
skinned and deseeded tomatoes, thinly sliced
shredded cos lettuce

1. Put the garlic on a chopping board, lightly sprinkle with salt and use the tip of a knife to crush into a paste. Transfer the paste to a small bowl and stir in the oregano, paprika, cumin, ground coriander and oil. Use your hands to rub the mixture all over the pieces of steak, then season with salt and pepper.

2. Put the tomatoes, peppers, passata, pickled chillies, coriander stalks and bay leaf in the slow cooker and top with the pieces of steak.

3. Cover the cooker with the lid and cook on LOW for 10 hours until the meat is very tender. Remove the steak from the cooker, wrap in foil and leave to rest for at least 10 minutes. Remove and discard the bay leaf and coriander stalks. Re-cover the cooker to keep the sauce warm.

4. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Wrap the tortillas in foil and heat in the oven for 10–15 minutes until hot. (Alternatively, wrap in cling film and warm in a microwave on HIGH for 30–45 seconds.)

5. Use two forks to shred the steak, then stir the meat into the sauce and season with a little more salt and pepper, if you like.

6. To assemble a burrito, spoon the beef filling down the centre of one tortilla, using a slotted spoon. Add any or all of the toppings, if you like, and sprinkle with coriander leaves. Roll up the tortilla, then repeat to make 7 more burritos.

7. Serve hot.

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