Curried Apple? That too from India? Sounds little weird, right? I felt weird and wondered too when I read Pat’s India-Food & Cooking. He explained 200 Indian foods in his book covering almost all major states in India. I was little interested to know unknown factors of our Indian spices and the story behind few famous known curries. I have also tried few unknown Indian recipes from the book in my kitchen. One among them is Kashmiri curried apple.
As there are no picture given for this recipe in the book, I couldn’t imagine about how the final outcome would look like. But the uniqueness of the curry pulled me and made me to try. I tried with few granny smith apples which were sitting in my fridge after I made the apple pickles. I followed his instructions and posted them with picture here. The curry tasted like eating sweet pumpkin with cinnamon and cardamom flavor. If anyone of you familiar with this curry give your views about it.
Basic Information:
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 25 minutes
Serves: 3
Ingredients:
Ghee/Butter – 1 tablespoon
Cooking Apple/Tart Apple – 2 nos, peeled, cored and cubed
Onion – 1/2 cup, chopped
Tamarind – 1 small gooseberry size
Green cardamoms – 3 nos
Cinnamon sticks – 1 inch
Black salt – 1 teaspoon or to taste
Cumin seeds – 1/2 teaspoon
Red chilli powder – 1 teaspoon or to taste
Turmeric – 1/8 teaspoon
Ground ginger – 1/4 teaspoon
Oil – 2 teaspoon
Boiled water – 1/4 cup
Method:
1) Heat oil in a wok and caramelize onions. Once it is done transfer to a plate. Allow it to cool and make a paste of it. Keep it aside.
2) In the same pan, heat ghee/butter. Add apples followed by red chilli powder, turmeric and ground ginger. Stir fry for 2 minutes.
3) Add cardamoms, cinnamon, onion paste(as said in step 1), salt and mixwell.
4) Mix and squeeze the juice from tamarind using boiling water and add to the wok. Mix again.
5) Cover the wok and cook apples for about 5 minutes. Makesure to maintain the firmness of the apples.
6) Crush the cumin seeds in between you palms and sprinkle on the cooked apples.
7) Serve hot.
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Perfect for the season n a must try ~ the clicks are gorgeous Uma!
USMasala
Uma, that picture of your kofta with the chili – I keep thinking you have not blogged anything new since that is the first BIG picture I see so I move on – Looks yummy dear!
looks so delicious and tempting…lovely clicks dear …
Haven't had apple curry flavours look delicious
We make pickle 🙂 this is interesting thank you for sharing
regards
very interesting and delicious recipe.. looks inviting 🙂
Indian Cuisine
looks fabulous… bookmarking it…
Curried Apple looks so tasty and inviting. Great preparation.
Deepa
looks interesting and delicious ………
Kashmiri curried apple looks delicious. Sure i will try for a change.
its new to meeeee..looks delicious…beautiful clicks too…
Sounds very new to me and looks very comforting with rice!
oh must try .. seasonal dish so so good..
Great dish uma,never imagined a curry in apple,looks soo delicious…..
Luks delicious and worth-trying recipe.Luv it.Cheers.
Interesting curry, thanks for sharing
Never cooked apple this way,quite interesting Uma, btw for ur q'n glass and rice noodles are different, rice noodles looks bit transparent and they doesnt to cook like rice noodles, just soaking in warm water is needed for cooking glass noodles, this noodles is quite often used in Vetinamien's spring rolls..hope its helps a bit..
Curried apple is very interesting n unique recipe…beautiful clicks..
That's an interesting recipe…something very new..nice clicks
very tempting n innovative recipe…YOu know how to impress me with your lipsmacking cliks Uma..;)
Tasty Appetite
very innovative recipe…lovely clicks uma!!
never heard about this recipe,looks delicious with amazing clicks.
Lovely n unique recxipe,Uma!! Good effort n turned out superb,fingerlicking!!
Interesting curry,looks super yum
Mouthwatering curry and you have presented it very nicely. Wonderful clicks.
Very new n interesting Uma…haven't tasted apples in curry form…looks inviting n well presented…as usual beautiful clicks 🙂
Very interesting and yummy recipe!
Interesting, not weird though.. Love apples cooked indian way..
Krithi's Kitchen
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very interesting recipe Uma, apple in curry sounds great, clicks are superb as always..
never tried this one…completely new recipe for me…looks great
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Lovely looking curry…..Bookmarking it…
Looks lovely, even though I use sour apples for pickles and salad. Never really cooked with them, very interesting one.
Curried apple is so new to me it looks interesting and delicious.
This is new to me, but sounds interesting! Your pics are gorgeous! 🙂
-Divya
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i've never made apple in subzi form.. these curried apples def get bookmarked!
Richa @ Hobby And More Food Blog
I'll follow this recipe for dinner, however, Kashmiris use Bramleys/cooking apples to make this, never heard of granny smith curry.
Hi Sheezan, You can use cooking apples.