Trench Wars Recipe Collection

[Pandagirl!]

My boyfriend's flight just took off so I have time for one more recipe before I head to the airport

Vegetables + Yogurt + Curry

Cook some vegetables of your choice. I usually just get a 12-16oz bag of frozen mixed veggies and make this on lazy nights
Cook the veggies to your liking (this isn't a science)...
Heat up some oil, add about a tsp each of cumin, mustard, and onion seeds and about a tsp of turmeric. Mince a couple garlic cloves and throw it in there, curry leaves and a dried red chile if you can find them, otherwise a little curry and chili powder
Fry the spices til the garlic starts to turn brown
Add the veggies and a tsp of sugar, salt, and 2/3-3/4 c yogurt (depending on how many veggies you used) and a little cornstarch to hold it together

[Pandagirl!]

Also a lentil and leek dish I make a lot:

Cook 1 cup of yellow lentils (boil about 10 minutes, should be soft but not mushy cuz you want them to retain their shape. Don't use red lentils)
Slice 2 leeks into circles, make sure you clean the dirt out well.
Heat some oil in a wok or karahi or something and add the leeks, dried red chiles, curry leaves (if you can find them), and about a teaspoon of mustard seeds (if you're feeling fancy add the mustard seeds to the oil first and add the other stuff once they start popping) (use a lid)
After a few minutes add 2 teaspoons of amchur (green mango powder, it's kinda sweet and really good), chile powder to taste (I like lots), a teaspoon or so of coriander, and salt
Stirfry for about 10 minutes
Add the lentils and give it a couple more minutes
Top with cilantro
Serve on rice

Add other vegetables if you feel like it but I like it with just lentils

[Pandagirl!]

This is really good

[gran guerrero]

My uncle tried drowning me once just so I can eat a tomatoe

I chose to die instead

He was dumbfounded so that scare tactic didn't work.

[gran guerrero]

I don't care what you say

fuck tomatoes

[DoTheFandango]

Fucking tomatoes, if properly grown and harvested, are fucking delicious. However, if you get mass-produced bull shit tomatoes that taste like nothing you are going to have a bad time.

Have you tried a true heirloom tomato? MMMMMMMMmmmmmm. This coming from a former tomatohater.

[gran guerrero]

Tomatoes are a piece of shit.
Knowing a tomatoe is a piece of shit is knowledge, knowing to not put one in your mouth is wisdom.
gran

[Ephemeral]

oh man I love a good tomatoe and can def eat it like a fruit almost. Of course its def better if you add some salt pepper and basil but tomatoes are one of my favourite things in this world!

Tomatos are a fruit.
Knowing a tomato is a fruit is knowledge, knowing to not put one in a fruit sald is wisdom.
eph

[Zeebu]

how complex veggie you lookin to get. i dont really have to cook vegetarian as often anymore but i can still do it.

anyways, youre looking for some full scale recipes or just some good things to eat?

[Mantra-Slider]

Like that would be hard to find!

[gran guerrero]

if you can find it in your area

try using basmati rice for any rice dish (it's the preferred choice)

[gran guerrero]

of course there's similarities

they all in the same area, it's not that hard to put 2 to 2 together and realize they must be getting the same food products thats indigenous to the area.

it's just presentation and how we put it together that's different

[Mantra-Slider]

We dont really have that many persian foodplaces in Malmö so Ive never really had a good taste of it. I remember eating at friends house when I was younger but its been a while. We have plenty of arabic places tho but yeah not the same I guess (altho there has to be some similarities - at least when you compare swedish food to persian food)

[Mantra-Slider]

oh tumeric! I have that shit already after going through my indian phase.. I gave up because I was never able to cook it anywhere close to the delicious indian food you get in restaurants

[Mantra-Slider]

personally I'm not fan of Iranian food (I've been around it so long, I just don't care for it) but I'm not what you call your prototypical Persian. Heck I hate tomatoes, everyone in Iran eats a tomatoe whole for christ sake. It comes with like every dish you order at a Persian restaurant.

That video i posted is a general choice for vegi dishes in the iranian household. Everything else usually involves rice. We have some nice eggplant dishes too.

oh man I love a good tomatoe and can def eat it like a fruit almost. Of course its def better if you add some salt pepper and basil but tomatoes are one of my favourite things in this world!