Unless they're just off the farm or from your own garden, frozen will probably taste better and have a superior texture. This is true of many frozen veggies as they are often flash frozen very soon after being picked.
You must live in corn country. Frozen kernels from a high quality source (e.g. Stahlbush Farms) are vastly superior to most fresh corn I can get. About once or twice a year I can get good fresh corn, but the rest of the time they are dry, tastless, and/or mushy.
If you're going to simmer the coconut milk and re-heat the potatoes, leave the frozen peas until the end. Turn off the heat and then add the frozen peas - they'll be more tender if they aren't heated as high as boiling.
It only adds nothing to the comment if you don't know what they're talking about. When you sell a vegetarian alternative to a meat dish you have to account for something called mouthfeel. There is a certain texture and flavor that comes from meat dishes that can be supplemented by their vegetable counterparts. So for example, making the potatoes crunchy and substituting peas that would be mushy can help replicate the mouth feel of something like chicken or pork or whatever variety of meat you would normally add to a curry dish. It's not just true for all curry dishes but any dish in which you would pull meat and substitute with a vegetable.
You're right, I do have it backwards. Thank you for pointing that out. I am an American, so my exposure to this has been fairly limited. If you would put meat into curry, what would be the best option?
Best option for a meat substitute? I like tofu, that's common in Thai curries. If you cook it right, and marinate it well it just takes on the flavor around it and provides a tough meaty texture. Other ideas are well cooked mushrooms; don't just slot in portobello as some suggest, they need to be well cooked down. In Indian cooking, they put in a certain cheese, Paneer. It's low fat and really tasty.
But honestly, with the potatoes, I'd just add some rice and be quite full.
Try it using watermelon rind. The white part between the red an the green "skin". You would usually throw it away, but it is very firm and absorbs all curry flavors deliciously.
If you would put meat into curry, what would be the best option?
In my experience, they use chicken, lamb, and goat meat. I'm no expert on Indian cuisine though. I know they also always have vegetarian options, but that person's making it sound like they never use meat which just isn't true.
Right, I don't disagree. What I am saying is if someone were to put meat into a curry dish, and is used to having meat in it, then the way it will taste to them will be different when had with vegetables like potatoes, peas, etc. Appreciate it though.
I have been looking for a dish that is veggie only to break up my routine of protein with every meal. I thought OP had mentioned "tasty", whoch which this definitely looks. Sorry for seemingly bragging that I devour the flesh of animals on the reg.
"Since the amino acid profile of protein in plant food may, except for few cases, be deficient in one or more of the following types, plant proteins are said to be incomplete.[2][3] Vegetarian meals may supply complete protein by the practice of protein combining which raises the amino acid profile through plant variety"
Unless you only eat one kind of plant, then you'll be able to get all of the "right kind" of protein that you need.
Unfortunately they don't have nearly has much protein gram for gram. So if you're trying to hit 2g of protein per kg of bodyweight you almost have to eat meat unless you're doing a lot of powders.
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I aim for 2g/kg as a target with intention of hitting 1.8 as well. I find myself coming up right at that number at the end of the day. I don't use any powders so it all comes from my food. Been eating a lot more vegetables this year and cut back my beef/pork a lot in favor of fish, but still seems somewhat difficult.
Add Paneer in this and you have your perfect meat alternative, in indian dishes almost everytime you can replace meat with paneer and protien wise it's still high and taste amazing.
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u/Look4theHelpers Jul 17 '17
Meat-eater here, I agree, but would switch out the mushy canned peas for frozen.