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Quick Cook Cauliflower Curry with Peas and Spinach

Vegan-friendly and packed with vegetables, this quick and creamy cauliflower curry will be ready in just forty minutes.

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Introduction

One of my favourite dishes at home is my mother’s cauliflower, potato and pea curry, known as ‘chechki’ and seasoned with Bengali five-spice. Alas, every variation I made with potatoes resolutely refused to cook within 30 minutes, so I’ve adapted it to this colourful, child-friendly version with quick cook cherry tomatoes and coconut milk.

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Ingredients

2 tsp mustard seeds
2 tsp fennel seeds
2 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp nigella (black onion) seeds
1 cauliflower, cut into small florets
leaves from the cauliflower, finely chopped
220g cherry tomatoes, halved
1 red onion, sliced into 8
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
5cm fresh ginger, grated
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp sea salt flakes
200g frozen peas
80g spinach, roughly chopped
1 x 400g tin of coconut milk
To serve:
1 lime, juice only
A handful of fresh coriander, roughly chopped
rice or flatbreads

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan/220°C/gas 7. Bash the mustard, fennel, cumin and nigella seeds in a pestle and mortar and then tip them into a roasting tin with everything except the spinach and coconut milk. (Use a roasting tin large enough to hold all the vegetables in a single layer.) Transfer the tin to the oven to roast for 20 minutes.

Stir through the chopped spinach and coconut milk and let everything cook for a further 10 minutes until the cauliflower is cooked through.

Season with the lime juice, then taste and adjust the salt as needed (I think this dish can take a lot of salt, but then I am a salt fiend). Scatter everything with fresh coriander before serving hot, with rice or flatbreads.

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