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Mixed Vegetable Curry

Also known as Mixed Vegetable Curry Sauce

A Nigerian home curry: fried onion, curry powder, mixed vegetables and a little tomato, eaten with rice, bread or boiled potatoes. It is the curry on All Nigerian Recipes’ world list, cooked the way Nigerian kitchens actually season it.

Mixed Vegetable Curry, Nigerian cooking

Ingredients

  • 3 cups of mixed vegetables (carrot, green beans, peas, sweetcorn, cauliflower)
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 2 tomatoes, blended, or 2 tablespoons of tomato paste
  • 2 teaspoons of curry powder
  • ½ teaspoon of thyme
  • 1 seasoning cube, salt and chilli to taste
  • 2 cooking spoons of vegetable oil
  • ½ cup of water or stock

Method

  1. 01

    Heat the oil. Fry the onion until soft. Add curry powder and thyme and stir 30 seconds so the spice blooms.

  2. 02

    Add tomato and cook 5 minutes. Add vegetables, stock, seasoning and salt. Simmer until the vegetables are tender but not mushy and the sauce is spoonable. Serve with white rice, boiled potatoes or bread.

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