Including plenty of dried spices in food is a good way to add iron to your diet. This essential mineral helps to maintain healthy red blood cells.
Ingredients
For the curry
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large 200g onion finely chopped
- 2 cloves 12g garlic finely chopped
- 1 tsp 3g ground ginger
- 1 tsp 2g turmeric
- 1 tbsp 9g medium curry powder
- 227g chopped tomatoes
- 1 200g cauliflower cut into 5cm florets
- 1 large 225g potatoes cut into cubes
- ½ medium lemon juiced
- Pinch of salt
- Pinch of ground black pepper
- 90g spinach chopped
- 10g coriander chopped
To serve
- 2 large wholemeal chapatti
Method
- Heat the oil in deep-sided frying pan over a medium heat.
- Add the onion and garlic, cooking for ten minutes over a medium heat until soft.
- Add the ginger, turmeric and curry powder. Cook for one minute until the spices become darker and fragrant.
- Stir in the tomatoes and then add the cauliflower, potato and lemon zest.
- Cover the pan and leave to cook for 30 minutes, adding a little water as necessary, although this curry should be fairly dry.
- Take the curry off the heat and season to taste with a little salt and pepper. (Be aware that many curry powders already contain salt.)
- Stir through the spinach until it wilts, then add the coriander.
- Divide the curry evenly on two plates and serve with wholemeal chapatti.