Courgette and Aubergine Curry is just the best!
I’d love to share with you this yummy veggie recipe for Courgette and Aubergine Curry and the chance to win tickets to the BBC summer good food show here on the blog.
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Courgette and Aubergine Curry
Courgette and Aubergine Curry
Oh my goodness how good does this courgette and Aubergine Curry look.
Oh my goodness – I want it NOW!It really does look absolutely scrumptious and so fnutitious too – a winner in both ways and I just love how colourful it is too don’t you?
This Hemsley & Hemsley’s Courgette and Aubergine Curry recipe and it truly is a vegetarian feast! Let’s all dig in.
Courgette and Aubergine Curry
Are you a big curry fan. You don’t actually have to be to love this it is not overly powerful but it is completely delicious and it is a one pot recipe ( always a winner in my book)
COURGETTE AND AUBERGINE CURRY
SERVES 4 AS A ONE-POT MEAL OR 6 I F SERVED WITH A SIDE DISH
A simple one-pot supper that is warming for the soul. Red split lentils provide a quick-and-easy creamy base without the need to soak them. The coconut and ginger have incredible immune-boosting properties.
Ingredients for courgette and aubergine curry
200 g bar of creamed coconut (use the oil for frying) or 2 tins of full-fat coconut milk plus 2 tbsp coconut oil or ghee, for frying
2 large onions, diced
2 thumb-sized pieces of fresh root ginger (about 80 g) – unpeeled if organic – grated
6 large garlic cloves, diced
200 g red split lentils, rinsed (no need to soak these)
½−1 litre water
1 large aubergine, chopped into 1.5 cm pieces
4 large tomatoes, quartered
2 large courgettes, diced
grated zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lime or lemon (avoid the bitter white pith)
2½–3 tsp tamari or 2 large pinches of sea salt
1 tsp maple syrup
a handful of roughly chopped fresh herbs, such as coriander, mint or basil
Courgette and aubergine curry
Ingredients
- 2 tins of full-fat coconut milk plus 2 tbsp coconut oil or ghee, for frying
- 2 large onions, diced
- 2 thumb-sized pieces of fresh root ginger (about 80 g) – unpeeled if organic – grated
- 6 large garlic cloves, diced
- 200 g red split lentils, rinsed (no need to soak these)
- ½−1 litre water
- 1 large aubergine, chopped into 1.5 cm pieces
- 4 large tomatoes, quartered
- 2 large courgettes, diced
- grated zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lime or lemon (avoid the bitter white pith)
- 3 tsp tamari or 2 large pinches of sea salt
- 1 tsp maple syrup
- a handful of roughly chopped fresh herbs,such as coriander, mint or basil
Instructions
- In a large wide pan, dry fry the peanuts or cashews for a few minutes to toast them, roughly chop and then set aside.
- In the same pan, heat the coconut oil over a medium heat and fry the onion, ginger and garlic for10 minutes until soft (don’t let the onion and garlic go brown).
- Add the lentils, the roughly chopped coconut solids or coconut milk, and then most of the bone broth or water (a bit less if you’re using the coconut milk) and stir well.This should be enough liquid for the coconut solids to dissolve, but keep an eye on the liquid levels so that the lentils don’t stick and burn at the bottom.
- After 6 minutes of cooking over a medium-high heat, add the aubergine and stir.
- After a further 10 minutes, add the tomato,courgette, lime or lemon zest and the tamari or salt. Add more water if you think your curry needs it.
- After 6 minutes, turn off the heat and add the lime,lemon juice, the maple syrup and fresh herbs, then stir and taste.You might need a little more tamari or salt or lime or lemon juice to add sourness.
- Top with the nuts and serve with watercress or your chosen side dish
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Method for courgette and aubergine curry
It’s pretty simple to make Courgette and Aubergine Curry
1 In a large wide pan, dry fry the peanuts or cashews for a few minutes to toast them, roughly chop and then set aside.
2 In the same pan, heat the coconut oil over medium heat and fry the onion, ginger and garlic for10 minutes until soft (don’t let the onion and garlic go brown).
3 Add the lentils, the roughly chopped coconut solids or coconut milk, and then most of the bone broth or water (a bit less if you’re using the coconut milk) and stir well.
This should be enough liquid for the coconut solids to dissolve, but keep an eye on the liquid levels so that the lentils don’t stick and burn at the bottom.
4 After 6 minutes of cooking over medium-high heat, add the aubergine and stir.
5 After a further 10 minutes, add the tomato, courgette, lime or lemon zest and the tamari or salt. Add more water if you think your curry needs it.
6 After 6 minutes, turn off the heat and add the lime, lemon juice, the maple syrup and fresh herbs, then stir and taste. You might need a little more tamari or salt or lime or lemon juice to add sourness.
7 Top your Courgette and Aubergine Curry with the nuts and serve with watercress or your chosen side dish.
Courgette and Aubergine Curry
There you go one fabulous Courgette and Aubergine Curry curry that is packed with goodness and tasty too.
If you have a go at cooking it please do leave me a comment and let me know how you got on with it. I always love to hear from you.
Have you ever cooked with this combo of veg before. It was definitely a new experience for me but I have to say i did truly enjoy it and will be combining them again.
It’s good to experiment with food every now and again isn’t it?
5 of my favourite veggie cookbooks
Bosh (the highest-selling vegan cookbook ever)
Bosh is packed with simple and easy recipes that are really truly delicious. my favourite recipe in the book has to be for crispy chilli tofu which is just completely scrumptious and which we now cook up on an almost weekly basis.
Eat Happy
Eat Happy is a lovely book Melissa Hemsley (author of year 6). EAT HAPPY’ is packed with minute, fuss free, feel good food and has flexitarian recipes to waste less and make a difference.
Deliciously Ella – Quick and Easy Plant-Based Deliciousness
Deliciously Ella – Quick and Easy Plant-Based Deliciousness is packed with speedy plant-based recipes to help you feel fabulous without being time-consuming.
In fact this lovely book contains 100 all-new quick and easy plant-based recipes by bestselling author Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella.
What are your favourite plant-based cookery books? On my list for this years is the Hairy Bikers veggie feasts. I do love a good hearty recipe like this courgette and aubergine curry one don’t you?
Hearty warming substantial just feels so filling and so warm and makes me feel all comfy and settled too. A bit like a warm bath does I suppose – whats your favourite filling food?
Further reading on from Courgette and Aubergine Curry
I hope you have enjoyed this recipe for courgette and aubergine curry, I hope you also like my recipe for lentil and vegetable hotpot
You may also like my recipe for courgette fritters
and how about taking a look over at my family budgeting blog where i have a huge volume of frugal vegetarian meal suggestions to tickle your tastebuds and save your pennies too
What is your favourite veggie meal? Do please drop me a line to let me know This curry definitely ranks as one of mine
Courgette recipes please!
Oh it is just the most underrated of vegetables please lat me have your recipes using courgettes in other ways than this courgette and aubergine curry.
I do have a whole host of frugal meals here – all plant based but very few with this lush veg in. Do you have one to share with me please. If so please drop a link or write it up in the comments below
I do hope you enjoyed this post on courgette and aubergine curry do take a look at my eat-simply blog for more inspired foodie ideas if you have a go at making this please pop back and tell me how you got on with makeing this and do share any photos you may take too.
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