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First peel the garlic and ginger. Put a frying pan on a medium to high heat and add the spices for toasting to the dry pan. Lightly toast them for a few minutes until golden brown and smelling delicious, then remove the pan from the heat.

Add the toasted spices to a pestle and mortar and grind until fine, or put them into a food processor and whiz to a powder.  Whiz the toasted spices in a food processor with the rest of the ingredients until you have a smooth paste.

1 tbs peanut oil (groundnut oil)

2 onions

2 cloves of garlic

½ butternut pumpkin (squash)

1 large sweet potato

1 x 400 g tin of tomatoes

1 chicken stock cube

1x 400 g tin of light coconut milk

Method

Heat  the oil in heavy bottomed casserole. Peel the onions and garlic and put into the casserole on a medium to high heat and cook for 5 minutes, or until the onions are golden, stirring regularly. Add half the quantity of the curry paste and fry for 2 minutes. Add the butternut pumpkin and sweet potato chopped into rough chunks and cook for 5 minutes until the vegetables are starting to soften. Pour in the tomatoes, crumble in the stock cube and add 150ml of boiling water. Simmer for 5 minutes, then stir in the coconut milk. Simmer for a final 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally until the vegetables are soft but still intact.

Serve with whatever you usually have with your curry – I made easy flatbreads and had some yoghurt on the side.

Flatbreads

Ingredients

175g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting

Pinch of  salt

½ teaspoon baking powder

175g natural yoghurt

Add the flatbread ingredients to a mixing bowl and mix together with a spoon, then use clean hands to pat and bring everything together. Dust a clean work surface with flour, then tip out the dough. Knead for a minute or so to bring it all together – don’t need to knead it for long – just enough time to bring everything together.