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Curried vegetable and chick pea stew

3rd January 2014 by shoestringcottage Leave a Comment

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curried vegetable and chick pea stew

Tonight I asked daughter no 3, who is 15, to make dinner as she is still on school holidays. She made a really delicious curried vegetable and chick pea stew. She got a few ideas from the internet, then looked at what we had and threw this together.

 

Curried Vegetable and Chick Pea Stew

Ingredients

1 onion, chopped
1 small courgette, chopped
2 small carrots, sliced
chunky clove of garlic, minced
half a pint of stock
1 x 400g can of chickpeas
1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes
Half a teaspoon ground ginger
half a teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
half a teaspoon ground cinnamon
Dash of tabasco to taste
Salt and pepper to season

Method

Heat some oil in a large saucepan and soften the onion and garlic for a few minutes, then add all of the spices and stir for a minute or so. Add the courgette and carrot and fry for 5 minutes. Now add the chickpeas, stock and tomatoes and stir. Add salt and pepper to taste and simmer for around 15 minutes. Serve with some cous cous or rice.

This curried vegetable and chick pea stew is super easy, healthy and cheap!

Teach your kids to cook

Cooking is a hugely useful life skill, especially if you are on a budget, health conscious, or adventurous in your eating habits…

I really can’t understand parents who cook themselves but don’t teach their children, or even worse, parents who don’t cook at all and live off ready meals. I know quite a few teens who are completely hopeless in the kitchen. One daughter went off to uni and was amazed to find one of the boys in her flat had filled the freezer with meals lovingly prepared by his Mum. Very nice of her, but wouldn’t it have been more useful to teach him a few basic culinary skills so that he could do it himself? Is she planning to bring him several months worth of meals at a time so that he never has to cook? I suspect so!!

My children were all up to chopping a few vegetables by the age of three, and we always baked cakes together. DD1 cooked her first full family roast dinner aged 10! They can all cook, and all understand what is healthy food and what is rubbish. I am not saying they don’t eat junk given half a chance, but generally their habits are pretty good.

We always fed them decent food and didn’t allow them to become fussy eaters. I think you lead by example. If you cook good food and eat lots of fruit and veg, then your children will do as you do.

Get your kids cooking as early as you can, and encourage them to try as many different foods as possible. Eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables yourself to show them how delicious they can be, and to encourage good habits from an early age. Then, when you need them to knock you up a speedy tea, they will be able to and you will reap the rewards!

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Comments

  1. Attila says

    3rd January 2014 at 22:57

    My mum was crafty; as a teenager, if I cooked something in cookery classes at school, she would claim it was too difficult for her, so could I do it? And it was the same with Blue Peter recipes…ooh looks complicated. Could you do it, love? When I left home I started cooking daily and here I am now, doing what mum did; miracles on pennies! (She had me helping from an early age, too.)

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  2. Ani says

    4th January 2014 at 03:19

    Preach! I have always grown up in a cooking household and I truly feel blessed to have learned to cook this way.

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  3. thedomesticstoryteller says

    4th January 2014 at 14:24

    I couldn’t agree more. I was very surprised when I went to Uni that some of my housemates couldn’t even make an omelette!

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