Squash & coconut curry

I use this recipe as my "base" as it's fairly bland, and just mix in different additional ingredients to level it up. This week I fried some garlic/onion first, used a korma paste instead of madras, and then at the very end stirred in half a bag of spinach until it wilted.

It was incredibly bland, it's easy to make and only uses a few ingredients but that's why it's so tasteless. Because it's mostly made up of squash eating it is an unpleasant experience. It might be bearable with more ingredients added but the default recipe is nasty.

I made this for my family last night and they really liked it, even my fussy daughter! I substituted the madras paste for 2 tbsp of hot curry paste, added a yellow pepper and chickpeas. Finished off with a splash of single cream. Very tasty indeed.

Made this dish this evening and served with brown rice. We started by frying off some onions and garlic before adding the Madras paste and squash/pepper. We also added some spinach at the last minute. It was tasty and filling and we'd make again. Next time I think we'd add some ginger and tomato…

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Fried wedges of 2 red & 2 white onions with 4 cloves of garlic before adding squash and sweet potato and a can of organic chickpeas. Added 2tbsp tikka masala paste (all I had) then fired it up to get it aromatic, added the (full fat) coconut milk and peas & chopped tasty tom tomatoes I had…

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