Meat-Free Monday #2 - Sweet Potato and Spinach Curry

So, the is the second week of trying out a new vegetarian recipe on a Monday for all of May, you can see my first attempt here. I was a bit more prepared this week so I took this time to make this sweet potato and spinach curry. I don't know about you but I love Indian food. You simply cannot beat a take-out curry feast. But that is a now and again sort of treat, so I like to be able to make a good curry at home to fill in the gaps. Usually I use chicken but this was just delicious with sweet potato and spinach; the sweet potato gave the curry a wonderful sweetness. Here's what I used to make this dish:

2 sweet potatoes
1 large handful of spinach
1 onion
1 tbsp of oil
1 clove of garlic
2 tsp of ground cumin
2 tsp of chilli powder
A tin of chopped tomatoes
Salt and pepper to season

I chopped and boiled the potato first until it was becoming soft. Once I had chopped and fried the onion and garlic in the oil I added the sweet potato and chopped tomotoes to the frying pan. Then I added the seasoning and spices before leaving it to summer down until the flavours had developed. I added the spinach last and waited until it has wilted before serving the curry alongside rice flavoured with pilau seasoning.

This was just one of my usual curry recipes but adding veg instead of meat - simples! But this feature is about experimenting with food after all so if you fancy making a curry yourself take the ingredient list with a (metaphorical) pinch of salt and play around with the flavour types and amount of spices you add. This meal was totally om-nom-nom-able though. Definitely glad I made enough to freeze ready for when I can't be bothered to cook...or when I can't wait any longer to have such deliciousness in my tummy again!

Epic size fatty portion...GONE!

P.S. Today's BEDM challenge is 10 things that make you happy. This is such a great idea, and one I was already planning as one of my future Ten Things post as part of a 'things that make me happy' sort of series. So I'm being naughty and writing off today's challenge (shhhh, don't tell on me!). Watch this space in the next couple of week for the start of this post series though!