Vegan Keema Masala

By on April 10, 2009 in Food & Nutrition
Traditionally, this dish is made with ground chicken meat, but the ground faux is just as good.  I add a bunch of  root veggies so I don’t need to make a separate vegetable dish.

  • 1 lb vegetarian ground “meat”
  •  ½ head garlic, minced
  • 2 T ginger, minced
  • 3 T olive or canola oil
  • 2 cans coconut milk
  • 2 inch chunk of tamarind, boil 1 cup water and pour over tamarind. Let sit until cool enough to loosen tamarind and mix with water. Squeeze and discard seeds (If tamarind paste is not available, substitute a teaspoon each of dates, dried apricots and lemon juice for a teaspoon of tamarind paste. Chop the dates and apricots into fine pieces and add the lemon juice.)
  • 1 t hot chili powder
  • 1 T salt
  • 2 T coriander
  • 2 T cumin
  • 2 T tumeric
  • Handful cilantro, stems removed and chopped
  • 1 can chick peas, drained
  • 1 cup peas
  • Bunch of root veggies—carrots, parsnips, turnips, celery root—or—baby spinach at end
 
If using chicken, cook in 1 T oil and set aside.  Heat 2 T oil and add spices, garlic and ginger and sauté over medium-low heat for 5 minutes.  Add coconut milk and tamarind juice. Add root veggies and let cook about 20 minutes. Add chicken or faux meat, chick peas and cook 10 minutes.  Turn off heat and add peas and cilantro.
Serve with basmati rice ,Nan or other Indian bread.
 
 
 By the author of the the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet, copyright 2007.
 

 

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Norma is an award winning author, speaker and an eco-friendly designer. Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet won The Grand Prize in the Writer's Digest Book Awards, and was the Award Winner for Best New Non-Fiction USA National Best Books 2008. Her most recent book is Sell Your Home Fast in a Buyer's Market. Norma created the practice she calls Harmonious Adjustments, which combines the best principles of Feng Shui, the use of eco-friendly materials, the application of the Four Elements, color, Vastu, creative visualization, energy work and good design. Norma is an an animal lover, a hiker, crafts person, healer, and a gardener. She lives north of New York City with her husband.
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One Response to Vegan Keema Masala

  1. michelle.cook April 10, 2009 at 6:27 pm #

    Norma,

    This recipe sounds soooo good. I'm a huge fan of curries and I must try this one.

    Thanks for sharing it.

    Cheers,

    Michelle

    Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, is a best-selling & 6-time book author

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