SED 27 - Sag aloo
May. 28th, 2015 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melodyssister ADC went off to a meetup this evening, so for a change I cooked. We had half a bag of potatoes (about 6 medium ones) and half a bag of slightly elderly spinach leaves, so I decided to combine them and make sag aloo, which I always enjoy at Indian restaurants but have never actually made.
After reading some recipes on the Internet, this is what I did: I cubed the potatoes (I do not think that Professor Snape would have been happy with my technique, as the cubes were decidedly uneven) and steamed them while I did the washing up - about 15 minutes - and left them covered. I chopped the spinach, sliced three carrots, and chopped an onion and two cloves of garlic. After putting on a cup of Basmati rice to cook, I fried the onion, then added large quantities of cumin, ginger powder, Ras el-Hanout spice and salt - I literally unscrewed the tops of the jars and shook until it looked like enough - and stirred until it was well mixed. I loweverd hte heat and then added the carrot, the potatoes, the garlic and finally the spinach. When the rice was cooked and waiting to be fluffed, I added a couple of tablespoons of Greek yoghurt and stirred it through for a few minutes. The sag aloo was ready when the rice was fluffed. The children were very pleased with it, and so was ADC when he got home. A new addition to my repertoire, it seems - not as obvious as mejadara (rice and lentils), as we don't always have potatoes and spinach to hand, but a nice change.
The children finished off the grapes for dessert; for a dessert that requires a bit more effort (and TBH looks a lot tastier), I refer you to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
teddyradiator's post of today. While they were eating, I sewed on the final buttons on my Miette. It fits a LOT better now, but still is a tiny bit too tight. Maybe I will manage to loose some weight by next winter? In any case, I'll make another one in large rather than medium, and see how that looks.
Tomorrow I will write my letter home, filling the different sides of the family in about what I did in Israel, and reporting fully on Philly; unless I finish it, my SED post will be REALLY short.
After reading some recipes on the Internet, this is what I did: I cubed the potatoes (I do not think that Professor Snape would have been happy with my technique, as the cubes were decidedly uneven) and steamed them while I did the washing up - about 15 minutes - and left them covered. I chopped the spinach, sliced three carrots, and chopped an onion and two cloves of garlic. After putting on a cup of Basmati rice to cook, I fried the onion, then added large quantities of cumin, ginger powder, Ras el-Hanout spice and salt - I literally unscrewed the tops of the jars and shook until it looked like enough - and stirred until it was well mixed. I loweverd hte heat and then added the carrot, the potatoes, the garlic and finally the spinach. When the rice was cooked and waiting to be fluffed, I added a couple of tablespoons of Greek yoghurt and stirred it through for a few minutes. The sag aloo was ready when the rice was fluffed. The children were very pleased with it, and so was ADC when he got home. A new addition to my repertoire, it seems - not as obvious as mejadara (rice and lentils), as we don't always have potatoes and spinach to hand, but a nice change.
The children finished off the grapes for dessert; for a dessert that requires a bit more effort (and TBH looks a lot tastier), I refer you to
teddyradiator's post of today. While they were eating, I sewed on the final buttons on my Miette. It fits a LOT better now, but still is a tiny bit too tight. Maybe I will manage to loose some weight by next winter? In any case, I'll make another one in large rather than medium, and see how that looks. Tomorrow I will write my letter home, filling the different sides of the family in about what I did in Israel, and reporting fully on Philly; unless I finish it, my SED post will be REALLY short.
