Myanmar Food
Vegetable Curry
Ingredients
- 2 medium potatoes
- 1/2 cup diced salt fish
- 3/4 cup diced green beans
- 2 teaspoons dried garlic chips
- 3/4 cup sprigged cauliflower
- 1 ½ cups onion, chopped finely
- 1 medium eggplant Large pinch turmeric
- 3/4 cup cut okra
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3 medium tomatoes, fairly green
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- 2 green chilies
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 small bunch coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
How to cook
Peel and cut potatoes and eggplant into 1-inch
cubes. Keep eggplant under water. Cut green beans
into 1-inch lengths and saltfish into 3/4-inch
cubes. Wash okra, dry, and cut into 1-inch lengths.
Chop one tomato finely, and 2 tomatoes in chunks.
Trim stalks from chilies. Chip coriander leaves.
Soak garlic chips in 1 1/2 teaspoons water. Heat
oil; put in garlic, onion, turmeric, ginger, and
chili powder and fry till fragrant. Add saltfish,
finely chopped tomato, and coriander. Stir and cook
3 to 5 minutes. Add potatoes, 1 cup water, 1
teaspoon salt and cook 10 to 12 minutes. Add green
beans, eggplant, cauliflower, and green chilies
successively, with 3/4 cup water. After 5 minutes
add tomatoes cut in chunks and okra. Correct for
salt and cook about 2 minutes after okra is in.
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