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Recipes from the Vegie Curry Woman

On one of these hot weekends, just gone past, we were at a fundraising for The Greens, and I was thinking to myself that we needed to have some cooling dishes this summer and that we finally had the time to do some experimenting. The only cooling thing in the fridge was a watermelon and I scrounged up some apple. It needed a vegetable as well so... cucumber.

I had some chilli jam in the fridge and I used that as well but in the end, I mdecided that just adding a whole chilli to the tempering ingredients would be easier and just as tasty.

So the Vegie Curry Man came home from a hard days work at St Andrews and he said "I was so hoping that you'd make me something really nice". So I told him the good news upon which he replied, "But I wasn't looking for a sweet."

After being duly chastised and told to accept whatever was dished out, Vegie Curry Man sat down to eat it. By the time he had finished (two helpings) with a summery dhall that was left over from the day before, he had decided that it was a must-have and proceeded to try it out the very next day at the Greens Fundraising Party as a raita.

 

 

 

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Watermelon Curry
(serves 3)

I thick (2in) slice of watermelon.
1 apple
1 small cucumber
1 tsp mustard seed
8 fresh curry leaves
1 serrano chilli
1 tbsp ghee
1 cup yoghurt
Macrobiotic salt to taste.

Fry mustard seeds in ghee till popping in a heavy-bottom saucepan. Toss in the curry leaves and chilli. Follow up with the apple and cover, turn the heat down and cook for 5 mins. Stir from time to time and make sure it doesn't burn. Add the cucumber and cook for 2 mins. Add watermelon. Take off heat, stir in yoghurt and salt.

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