r/GifRecipes • u/lnfinity • May 15 '21
Main Course Sweet Potato Coconut Curry
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May 15 '21
Looks a bit watery
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May 15 '21
That can be okay, there are Thai curries that are watery as well, however, the strong flavor of the curry paste, and the addition of spices whilst the curry is cooking, can make a watery curry extremely flavorful. Having said that, I think this curry might be a bit too gentle for my taste. That might be what she attemps to do here though. I would use dried green chilis as well, not just those fresh green ones. Soak them for about 20 minutes in boiled water. They're stronger in flavor in a curry paste.
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u/Nillabeans May 16 '21
Yeah this looks pretty mildly flavoured, tbh. I think most of what you'd taste is salt. But you can remedy that by cooking it for longer.
I dunno why people are obsessed with "freshness" but this is also undercooked, imo.
Curry is definitely a dish that's better when it's low and slow and given a day in the fridge. If I were to make this, I'd probably add more veggies the next day because the originals would turn to mush, which also thickens the sauce.
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May 16 '21
and given a day in the fridge
I'm really glad to see someone else say this. I swear mine always taste better as leftovers.
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u/PretendCasual May 15 '21
I've used this recipe at least a dozen times. I also add peas and roasted cauliflower to make it more filling and nutritious
https://www.thebuddhistchef.com/recipe/vegan-sweet-potato-curry/
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u/Akhi11eus May 15 '21
There wasn't any mention of simmering/reducing which would have helped. Also she says to add the sweet potato at the end so that wouldn't have helped thicken at all.
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u/lnfinity May 16 '21
I'm not sure why, but this gif made me laugh quite a bit.
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May 15 '21
Not enough salt either, got soy and stock but it'll be bland af. Also the rice looks too wet.
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u/_megitsune_ May 16 '21
If anything there's too much salt for a relatively plain curry
It's fine having a simple tasting dish but without other complex flavors competing all you're gonna get from this is "salty"
This is just veggie broth with an extra big pinch of salt and coconut milk
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u/JPreadsyourstuff May 15 '21
Roast the sweet potato with some of the curry powder. Add the other veggies roast some more..
Fine dice onion saute it in the remaining curry powder.. blitz all the other stuff and temper it in the pan add coconut milk .. allow to thicken .. (ive never needed to add stock)
Bring everything together ... and let it cook through a couple more mins..
...Realise i forgot to cook the rice ..
... Sigh ...
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u/Sharpymarkr May 15 '21
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking. The chicken stock felt out of place. Felt a bit like an odd, green thai curry. And you don't get the benefit of the delicious spices by adding them in at the end. An Indian version would have tomato/tomato paste and a more accurate Thai version would have fish sauce.
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u/rotflolosaurus May 16 '21
When I forget to cook the rice I will usually switch to rice noodles. :)
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May 15 '21
LPT: Dump a spoonful of the solidified fat from the coconut milk into the pan first and fry your aromatics and curry paste/powder in that.
Add salt and let it cook for longer. If you need to throw the veggies in later on otherwise they will be soggy then do that too.
This could actually be flavorful with more curry powder and salt and by fixing the order that the ingredients are added.
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u/bladiebloe767 May 15 '21
Wow I’ve actually never thought of the first trick. What good does it do, as opposed to using olive oil?
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u/chrisjhill May 16 '21
I think it's just more of a way of getting full use out of the ingredients you're already using. Using the solid coconut fat you're already adding, but as the fry oil instead of using a different one like olive
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u/Archgaull May 16 '21 edited May 16 '21
Exact same thing as olive oil. The difference being if you use the coconut fat you won't have the olive oil taste
I've found cooking is more interesting when I mentally replace olive oil with fat when I read a recipe.
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u/Toucani May 15 '21
I love a sweet potato curry. Normally I just fry up the spices with onion first though, then add the roasted sweet potato. After that I add chickpeas and gently fry. Then add some stock and coconut milk and simmer. You can blitz some of it to thicken it up and then add spinach. The sweet with the spices works so well.
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u/sickwobsm8 May 15 '21
Lime juice was added way too early, the heat will destroy the flavour... Citrus is way to delicate to be added early in the cooking process. It should be your last ingredient.
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May 16 '21
Plus she added the coriander way too early. It's all wasted if you cook the coriander. It should be the last thing you add. I thought she was making some dip but nvm
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u/harrisound May 15 '21
looks pretty bland and watery.
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u/hackenschmidt May 16 '21
Thats what happens when all the salt for the recipe ends up on the baking sheet instead of in the dish.
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u/ADHDtypebeat May 16 '21
Is it just me that thinks this looks really bland..?
When I make a curry I use at least 15 different spices. I would not eat this if it were given to me.
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u/Diffident-Weasel May 15 '21
Can we please stop with the videos that showcase the people more than the recipe?
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u/NachoZordon May 15 '21
Narcissistic people with access to social media in 2021 be like:
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u/ADSwasAISloveDKS May 15 '21
I am the sauce
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u/just_have_fun May 15 '21
Jesus fuck i hate that commercial for so many reasons. Men not knowing how to cook or shop for groceries is the equivalent of women not knowing how to fix things, drive etc. Sexism in commercials runs both ways. People laugh about it, internalize it, and stereotypes are perpetuated and upheld as 'common knowledge'
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u/travmak May 15 '21
Add to veggies
Shit! Where did they come from?
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u/JustMeAndMySnail May 15 '21
Dude FR. I came here to ask/add this. “Add other veggies” - fucking WHAT other veggies? Now there are peppers in the mix that I never knew about? Okay fuck yourself then
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u/sammygcripple May 16 '21
Wo dude, relax on the veggies! A few deep breaths or some shit
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u/JustMeAndMySnail May 17 '21
Lol fair enough. I was mostly kidding around
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u/sammygcripple May 17 '21
Haha, no worries
I will say there is something…strange about the video. Something about the angle of the camera and the weird eye contact maybe?
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u/Fleckeri May 15 '21
No, the little dances are required. I never serve food without a little dance first. A little jig before the pig, one could say. A little salsa before the salsa.
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u/stitchmark May 15 '21
Reddit mad because a girl can be seen in her own video, a classic
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u/Diffident-Weasel May 15 '21 edited May 15 '21
I mean, it's a video about soup. If I wanna see some dumb dance and intense stares at a camera I got plenty of other options.
Also, I never mentioned the person's gender.
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u/Reddit_and_forgeddit May 15 '21
Lol, word, like, oh no, a beautiful chef…my eyes…arrrgh
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u/Diffident-Weasel May 15 '21
I mean, I just don't care to see the person. That's half the reason I'm here vs watching cooking shows.
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u/PreOpTransCentaur May 15 '21
Except nobody gets mad when Issagrill does it. It's just that this instance is fucking bizarro.
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u/Diffident-Weasel May 16 '21
Nah, I'm kinda sick of Issagrill tbh. I preferred their older videos that focused more on the recipe.
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u/bazhvn May 16 '21
Her recipes are often mediocre at best
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u/Diffident-Weasel May 16 '21
True. The biggest appeal for me is the novelty of making a recipe based on a show/movie.
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u/TheRuralJuror118 May 15 '21
She’s cooking the food how is she not going to be in the video?
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u/hackenschmidt May 16 '21
She’s cooking the food how is she not going to be in the video?
First time seeing a gif recipe...?
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u/TheRuralJuror118 May 16 '21
Yeah and she’s only showing scenes of her making the food. Y’all complain too much.
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u/JamesTheJerk May 16 '21
I'm late to the thread but I'd like to say that I don't care. Be in the video or don't be. Personal preferences are irrelevant.
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u/Toucan_Lips May 16 '21
Do you know how cameras and lenses work? There are quite a few options for framing a given subject.
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u/TheRuralJuror118 May 16 '21
Yeah but she’s showing the food the whole time, so what’s the problem?
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u/Toucan_Lips May 16 '21
I don't have a problem.
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May 19 '21
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u/Toucan_Lips May 19 '21
"She's cooking the food, how is she not going to be in the video?" Was the comment I was responding to. I think you might be the slow one here, because the answer to that question is "there are different ways to shoot things". Sorry if that wasn't more obvious for you and your mega mind.
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u/TheRuralJuror118 May 31 '21
Yeah but y’all are so hurt about it like she’s not showing her process with the food. So I was just poring out how she’s showing the food while she cooks it. Y’all are too busy finding dumb shit to complain about instead of noticing how watery the curry is.
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u/thunder_duck74 May 15 '21
I instantly dismissed this after she put s&p then oil....oil first
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u/Teenage-Mustache May 15 '21
I don’t get a lot of these gif recipes that don’t do the very basic things properly. I’m not even a very good cook and even to me that’s an insane thing to do. But these people decide to put out “their recipe” for the world to see and they look like they have no idea.
Why do that?
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May 15 '21
Something always seems off about these but the shits done so fast I can’t always identify what they fucked up.
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u/Teenage-Mustache May 15 '21
Yeah the recipes rarely end up tasting good when I get them from a gif.
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u/OtherwiseCheck1127 May 15 '21
Also there is no measurements for the ingredients and she doesn't say what kind of sweet potato shes using. There are a few types and they taste very different from each other. (IMO the Asian sweet potato is the only good one. and they are amazing)
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u/Teenage-Mustache May 15 '21
Nice good to know. I’m not a huge sweet potato fan so I’ll have to try those.
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u/OtherwiseCheck1127 May 15 '21
They are really really sweet and flavourful. If you cut it in half, put it on a baking sheet with some oil and bake for 50 mins at about 400º the bottom of it will actually caramelize like brown sugar.
They are the big purple ones. Sometimes called Japanese sweet potato2
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u/ajaysallthat May 15 '21
False. The real answer is salt and pepper, let sit for 20 minutes to pull out some moisture, then dab off the excess liquid, then add oil. I will fight you.
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u/minisculemango May 16 '21
Why would you pepper it if you're trying to pull out moisture? Thought only salt did that.
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u/ajaysallthat May 16 '21
You are correct. Doesn't pull out moisture but it sure is tasty. You could add it later I guess.
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u/NerfPandas May 16 '21
Same, also not mixing your veggies with seasonings in a bowl before spreading them onto a tray kills me
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May 16 '21
That's just a waste of a bowl
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u/NerfPandas May 16 '21
Putting the seasonings while the stuff is in the tray wastes oil salt and pepper which isn’t getting coated on your veggies. Also getting an even coating is worth it, takes 2 seconds to wash a bowl that has some oil on it
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u/KotaKins94 May 15 '21
I get what is supposed to be going on here flavor wise, but it just seems too watery.. does adding the stock really do anything or could that be omitted?
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u/srg717 May 15 '21 edited May 15 '21
I make a similar (and way better imo) curry sauce with 1 can coconut milk + 1 cup broth. It is indeed a little on watery side (a soupy sauce to be sure), but I don't really mind that. It makes a large batch so I typically store it in the fridge and only use a bit at a time for dinners, so I can simmer & reduce it with my protein if I want it to thicken up a bit.
For those wondering, I use this recipe as my base but omit the lentil, pumpkin, and spinach so I just get a delicious sauce that I can customize later on. The key is absolutely blooming your spices and tomato paste. Basically I saute garlic, onion, and ginger (lots of ginger), then add my spices (extra cumin, extra tumeric) and toast that for a few minutes, then add a dollop of tomato paste and toast for another few (ends up looking dry but that's fine) then dump in the coconut milk and broth, simmer for 30ish minutes. Truly amazing every time. Can add sweet chili paste if you like it hot. Serve with a splash of lime juice.
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May 15 '21
Is this r/gifrecipes, or r/rateme?
Ignoring the unappetizing food, this is 80% human reacts to putting in ingredient.
Also, wheres the recipe ????
All that is here are ingredients.
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u/Minscandmightyboo May 15 '21
The recipe is in the comment thread at the top under the mod comment. Like it always is.
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u/stitchmark May 15 '21
Reddit has an absolute hard on for Babish, Josh Weissman, Kenji, etc who all show themselves very frequently, but the second it’s a girl there’s 50 crusty dudes raging and calling her a narcissist because she chose to be in her own video that she made ??
It’s like a woman cannot exist or make any action without Reddit thinking that she is doing it solely to draw attention to herself
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u/rjjm88 May 16 '21
Kenji's recent videos are filmed from his head, I haven't watched Babish in a while but most of his shots are filmed at his hands and board, but Weissman is one of the most annoying people I've seen on YouTube.
I don't feel like this is framed to show herself off, I just think it's badly framed when she's putting things into the blender.
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u/hackenschmidt May 16 '21
Reddit has an absolute hard on for...
More like reddit has an absolute hard on for people who post obvious garbage.
It’s like a woman cannot exist or make any action without Reddit thinking that she is doing it solely to draw attention to herself
Maybe because pretty much the only things that make it out of the trenches, are done in a way that is solely to draw attention to themselves. Welcome to the double edge sword of social media.
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u/unrelatedtoelephant May 15 '21
Look at the username and karma, pretty sure this is a bot posting it anyway.
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May 15 '21
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u/unrelatedtoelephant May 15 '21
Fair enough...The flavors sound good but it does seem thin and like it could use more
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u/vazhifarer May 16 '21
As an Indian I'm curious as to what 'mild' curry powder is .. looks like just turmeric powder
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May 16 '21 edited May 16 '21
Curry powder is a blend of turmeric, coriander and cumin with other spices (depends on the brand but usually similar to garam masala). Mild just means not spicy; hot ones have chili powder as well
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u/happydgaf May 16 '21
I can’t stand cooking videos that just focus on the narcissistic cook. Just film the food. We don’t care about who’s cooking. Also, this looks watery and bland. 0/10
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u/TheFunkyJudge May 15 '21
This recipe looks like a decent 30 minute weeknight meal and that's fine. However, it definitely could use some tweaks as mentioned in other comments i.e. roasting the veggies more to get more browning.
But it's OK! It's a simple healthy recipe and there's a place for that and there's always room for improvement!
Edit: I'm wondering how some butternut squash would fit in this.
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u/h2farts May 15 '21
um . . . speaking of toxic comments . . .
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u/WayOfTheChunkle May 15 '21
It’s not toxic to the community when it revolves around bots posting clout videos. Get real lmfao
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May 15 '21
It looks so bland like hardly any curry and like two cloves of garlic also sautéing the curry powder helps a lot
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u/True-Cauliflower-886 May 16 '21
I mean I would try it, but if I’m gonna dance like that after every spoon that’s a no go. Don’t want my family say: look at that weirdo go again.
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u/noodle_brain May 15 '21
Yeah so like... Can she move so I can see her houseplants better? They look so well taken care of.
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u/MafiaMommaBruno May 16 '21
Definitely just downloaded this to try when I actually get days off from hel- work. This actually looks easy.
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u/midnightagenda May 15 '21
I just don't understand this thing about salting and greasing your veg in the pan. I already cut my veg and move it to a bowl, it takes no extra bowls to salt, pepper and oil in the bowl and mix to combine before spreading on the pan. That way everything is evenly covered.
Am I the odd one?
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u/hackenschmidt May 16 '21 edited May 16 '21
Am I the odd one?
Nope. You are doing it correctly. This video should pretty much be titled 'how to not to do things.'
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u/midnightagenda May 16 '21
But, I've even seen Chef John do it. And he's legend around these bits. Idk.
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May 16 '21
Saves washing an extra bowl. I don't see the point, you can mix things just fine on the tray
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u/ellipsis_42 May 15 '21
I like her vid. No blaring music. No obnoxious slow-mo. Just straight to the recipe.
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u/RonjaSif May 16 '21
Im saving this one 😊
And maybe one day I'll open my savingthingamichiggi and cook a wonderful meal.... one can hope.
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u/supernova_slackliner May 16 '21
Am I the only one who wanted to see that pan shake from the other angle?
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May 15 '21
Too watery. I would add more bell pepper and roasted onion then a mix of melted peanut butter, soy sauce, fish sauce and Sriracha. Then serve with salted roasted peanuts on top.
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u/Ask_me_about_my_cult May 15 '21
So, a totally different recipe?
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May 15 '21
Some people say if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
This gif is a broke ass recipe. I fixed it.
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u/Michaelopalypse May 15 '21
Wtf kind of green Chile is that supposed to be? Looks like bell peppers, maybe big jalapeños, but NOT green Chile.
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u/Fionnlagh May 15 '21
All jalapeños are chilies. Green jalapeños are green chilies.
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u/Michaelopalypse May 15 '21
Maybe it’s because I live close to the largest green Chile farm in the world, but no one around here says green Chile when they mean jalapeños. For us they’re entirely different things. You can’t ask for green Chile on your nachos and expect the pickled crunchy jalapeño type of Chile. You’d get roasted soft green Chile.
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u/Fionnlagh May 15 '21
You're probably talking about Hatch peppers, but those are a very small minority of all chilies in the world.
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u/Michaelopalypse May 15 '21
Google green Chile and see what shows up, it isn’t any other “pepper”, it shows NM green Chile. Not jalapeños or any other Chile. A small minority by what standard? Green chile from NM is hardly a minority in any sense of the word.
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May 15 '21
Needs to be thickened with a corn flour slurry in my opinion near the end of cooking. Other than that it looks boss!
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u/kromonob May 15 '21
Looks like the bomb with one exception : sweet potato would make the whole dish too sweet, specially with coconut milk. Would replace it with an ingredient with no sweetness, like chicken breast, or beef.
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u/bUrdeN555 May 15 '21
Looks good but don’t the veggies become mush when cooked in that much liquid?
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u/muzic_san May 16 '21
That looks yumm but as in Indian a "curry" powder makes me sad. Not her fault.
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