RECIPE: Faux potato curry from leftover samosa filling

Good morning! The past week I've been eating enough potato curry to curry myself out. So I figured I could share how I made it and others can try this easy way to use up some leftovers!

A bit ago I made veggie samosas. They consisted of 1 carrot, 1 potato, 1 onion, 2 cloves garlic, some peas finely chopped mixed with curry powder, S&P and sauteed. Then you add ~1/2c veggie stock and let it simmer down to thin it out. Afterwards you just add it to filo dough - and bake! I had a ton of filling leftover!

A girl simply doesn't need to eat THAT many samosas. Leftover filling!

As you can see - holy tons of extra filling, Batman! After thinking for a bit, I decided to make a faux potato curry with it.

I chopped up two more red potatoes

I removed the skins because they taste funny to me.

They went into the sautee pan with a spot of oil to soften a bit, then I added the leftover samosa filling, some more veggie stock, more curry powder, S&P and covered it to let it simmer for a while. "For a while" I mean about 20-25 minutes. I stirred it pretty frequently - once every 7-8 minutes to make sure nothing stuck to the bottom.

The water in the pot in the background is for blanching asparagus!

Afterwards it was a delicious, hearty faux curry that I really enjoyed! It packed wonderfully in my bentos for the week and tasted just fine warm/room temperature/or cold!

Hope you enjoy!

BENTO: Nom ALL the leftovers!!

 

Sorry kids, today's bento isn't all that exciting. I was exhausted and had a terrible time sleeping last night! No idea what was up with THAT nonsense! So I pretty hurriedly packed lunch for today this morning instead of the night before. Won't be doing THAT again!

I have quite possibly enough leftovers that truly need to be eaten by tomorrow to feed 3 people. So I figured bento today, dinner tonight, lunch tomorrow except - tragedy of tragedies - I ran out of rice! As I didn't realize that until I got home, I'll have to make do with having soup tonight to use up the veggies that are in my fridge threatening to rebel if not eaten.

I'll be posting the recipes I used for what I have in this box tomorrow or Monday - I'll be in Connecticut this weekend! I plan to pack a bento for Friday lunch, and one to eat on the train for dinner since I'll be running to Grand Central right from work.

ANYWAY, in this bento: jasmine rice, leftover potato curry, large hard boiled egg. On the right side are some strawberries, raw red bell pepper, collard greens sauteed with more red bell pepper (I like peppers!) and some asparagus buried underneath. (Not pictured: for dessert I had a SkinnyCow chocolate truffle bar! OMG! Yum!)

And that's all she wrote. I might post the recipes tonight - depending on how long it takes me to make the soup. Hope everyone enjoys!

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