Easy Vegetable Curry Recipe: Healthy, Flavourful, and Perfect for Any Meal
Discover a quick and easy vegetable curry recipe packed with fresh vegetables, aromatic spices, and a creamy sauce. Perfect for a healthy, comforting meal any day of the week.
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp olive oil any vegetable oil will be fine
- 175-200 grams of onions, finely chopped 2 small onions or one large onion
- 1 tbsp garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger, finely chopped
- 3 large tomatoes, finely chopped I use a food processor
- 2 green chillies, finely chopped
- 640 grams frozen vegetables of your choice I use Birdseye Country Mixed Vegetables
- 0.5 tsp turmeric powder
- 0.5 tsp nigella seeds
- 0.5 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp curry leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 0.5 tsp ground cumin
- 0.5 tsp garam masala powder
- 0.25 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 bullet pepper chillies, sliced in half for garnish
- 2-3 tbsp fresh coriander, finely chopped for garnish
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a medium sized sauce pan, add the onions and sauté until golden brown. This should take 8-10 minutes.
- Add the garlic and ginger and stir through until the raw smell has gone, this should take a 1-2 minutes.
- Then add in the tomatoes, green chillies, turmeric, nigella seeds, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves and salt and stir through. Let everything simmer on a low heat for 10-15 minutes, until you see the oil start to separate from the masala.Keep an eye as it simmers, as it starts to dry out, you will need to add splashes of water.If you prefer more masala-sauce with your curry, you can add in more water at this stage.
- Next, add the frozen vegetables to the masala and let it simmer together until the vegetables have softened. This should take 10-15 minutes.If once you have mixed the vegetables into the masala, you want it to be more saucy, you can add more water at this point.I added around 200ml, 100 ml at a time. Some water will be released as the vegetables de-frost in the pan.
- Finally add the ground coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala, sugar and lemon juice and stir everything through.
- Garnish with the bullet pepper chillies and fresh coriander.
Notes
- If cooking with fresh vegetables, cooking time at step 4 should be a little less. Just check to see if the vegetables are cooked through and soft by using a sharp knife to make an incision into the vegetable, if it goes in easily, you know it's cooked.
- In particular, cauliflower takes longer to cook and soften, so check that the cauliflower is soft before serving.