We love this easy vegetable curry recipe, made with green beans, carrots and cauliflower. Mild enough for children to enjoy. Suitable for vegetarians.
R picked all the green beans out of this and ate them. He asked for more. Little R copied him and ate all of hers too. I am still in shock. This may have been a result of the no-snack revolution - my name for the so-obvious I never thought of it before effect of cutting down the kids' snack intake. I'm by no means managing this every day but on this particular Saturday they hardly had any snacks and ate both meals very well. By bedtime I had a lovely full sense of satisfaction - like my children had actually eaten a balanced meal and got their five a day for once - or maybe that was just the curry in my belly.
Other vegetarian curry recipes
- Mixed vegetable curry
- Easy potato curry with cumin recipe
- Easy red lentil dal
- One pot potato and chickpea curry
- or some of my other curry recipes over on my vegan food blog cookveggielicious.com
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How to make easy vegetable curry
You can use whatever vegetables you prefer for this dish. I like to use carrots, green beans and cauliflower. Fresh or frozen peas are a great addition as are potatoes. If you want to add some protein to this dish some paneer and/or a drained tin of chickpeas work perfectly.
The method that I usually use when making a vegetable curry like this for my kids is to cook the vegetables separately to the sauce. They prefer the vegetables to be quite soft so I usually steam them. However, some vegetables work really well roasted (for example this sweet potato and beetroot curry from my other blog Cook Veggielicious) so you could always give this a try - the cauliflower in particular would be delicious roasted.
This dish is vegan if you don't use paneer and you use dairy free spread in place of butter.
If you have made this recipe I would love it if you’d leave a comment and rating below. Thank you!
Easy vegetable curry
Ingredients
- 3 large carrots peeled and sliced
- 170 g green beans
- ½ small cauliflower
- Sunflower oil
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
- A thumb sized piece of ginger peeled and finely chopped
- 800 g tinned chopped tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon chilli powder or more to taste
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 25 g butter or dairy free spread
Optional add ins
- 227 g paneer cubed
- 400 g tinned chickpeas drained
- 2 medium potatoes cubed and boiled
Instructions
- Steam or boil the vegetables until soft.
- Heat the oil in a large, heavy based pan and add the cumin seeds. Fry for one minute over a medium heat. Add the onion and cook gently for around 10 minutes until soft, stirring often.
- When soft stir in the ginger, garlic, chilli powder and turmeric and cook for a further few minutes making sure that the garlic doesn't start to burn.
- Add the chopped tomatoes and simmer for five minutes. Add the garam masala and stir well. At this stage I add a few pieces of cooked carrot and cauliflower and mash them into the sauce to make sure that the kids get some of the veggies in their bodies - as I never know which bits they're going to eat.
- Stir well then add the rest of the vegetables. This is the time to add the paneer and/or the chickpeas if using (take care with small children if adding chickpeas as they could potentially cause a choking risk). If the sauce looks a bit dry add a little water and stir well. Add the butter or spread and stir well.
Notes
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M-R
VEGETABLE CURRY - YAAAAAAAYY !!! 😀
Emily @amummytoo
I love how colourful this is and I have such a weakness for paneer. Thank you for linking up to #recipeoftheweek. It’s always appreciated 🙂 I’ve Pinned and Tweeted this post and there’s a new linky just gone live - would love you to join in x
Sneaky Veg
Thanks Emily, I was secretly delighted the kids didn't like the paneer so I could eat theirs!
Coombe Mill (Fiona) (@coombemill)
I agree, leaving a curry to sit overnight really helps the flavours
Sneaky Veg
Will definitely do that, especially if they include beans as 3yo currently obsessed with them - hurrah!
thepirategypsies
This sounds good! But what is Paneer?
Dimple@shivaaydelights
Fantastic recipe! Love it! 🙂
Sneaky Veg
Thanks! Can't believe how much the kids enjoyed it.
Dimple@shivaaydelights
That's so good! I have many kid friendly Indian curry recipes do have a look if you wish. Looking forward to more of your lovely posts 🙂
Sneaky Veg
It's a white cheese, used quite a bit in Indian cooking. You can buy it easily in the UK but if you can't find it where you are you can make your own (I've never tried!) as shown here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/paneer_86451
Dimple@shivaaydelights
I have a soya mince and bean curry recipe for your little one. My 3 year old loved ithttps://shivaaydelights.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/a-cannelinni-bean-soya-mince-cheema/
Hope you like it 🙂
Sneaky Veg
2 yo won't eat mince but will give it a go anyway! Thanks for sharing.