Day 27

So we started our morning with a yogurt chicken curry situation. It was a fabulous situation actually. It has a list of ingredients like 2 pages long so here is a summary: chicken, aromatics, spice mixture including, cinnamon, clove, bay leaf, cardamom, and nutmeg, garam masala, cilantro and nut paste to thicken and stabilize. You simmer chicken until cooked really. We ate it with rice and it was fine.

Its something I might make again, if I was craving Indian foods and not interested in the old standards like tikka masala. I tend to always make daal (yellow split peas) and eggplant (benghan bharta) so this was a nice change up. The spices were really tasty.

We then made the lamb balls. We made little 1/2 ounce meatballs of lamb and seasoned them with jalapeno, ginger, cilantro, garlic, cloves, and mace. They get fried and please reserve your balls for later. The sauce was tomato and yogurt based and also utilized the nut paste made earlier. Once sauce is simmering, return balls, and simmer long enough to cook through. No Pink Balls, please!

The little balls get a minty finish and served over rice. Try not to love my balls!

Wonton soup was our last dish of the day. It was an easy simmered soup that had snow peas, black ear mushrooms, shitakes, and chicken stock. The wonton filling was long on ingredients but quick to make. It had shrimp, chicken, water chestnuts, oyster sauce, sugar, Chinese wine, egg, cornstarch, and soy sauce. Wrap them up and drop them in simmering soup to cook in about 3 minutes. They are great pan fried too. I have leftover filling and will probably make some more tonight for dinner.

I can't seem to get enough dumplings in my life. We are doing another one tomorrow: Lumpiang. Its the Filipino egg roll.