Vegetable Curry
If you have a Myanmar tour package, try to eat vegetable curry here.
Ingredients
- 2 medium potatoes
- 1/2 cup diced salt fish
- 3/4 cup diced green beans
- 2 teaspoons dried garlic chips
- 3/4 cup sprigged cauliflower
- 1 ½ cups onion, chopped finely
- 1 medium eggplant Large pinch turmeric
- 3/4 cup cut okra
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3 medium tomatoes, fairly green
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- 2 green chilies
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 small bunch coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
How to cook
Peel and cut potatoes and eggplant into 1-inch cubes. Keep eggplant under water. Cut green beans into 1-inch lengths and saltfish into 3/4-inch cubes. Wash okra, dry, and cut into 1-inch lengths. Chop one tomato finely, and 2 tomatoes in chunks. Trim stalks from chilies. Chip coriander leaves. Soak garlic chips in 1 1/2 teaspoons water. Heat oil; put in garlic, onion, turmeric, ginger, and chili powder and fry till fragrant. Add saltfish, finely chopped tomato, and coriander. Stir and cook 3 to 5 minutes. Add potatoes, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon salt and cook 10 to 12 minutes. Add green beans, eggplant, cauliflower, and green chilies successively, with 3/4 cup water. After 5 minutes add tomatoes cut in chunks and okra. Correct for salt and cook about 2 minutes after okra is in.
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