j. rosenstrach
I love this dinner. I’ve been making some variation of it for fifteen years — in fact I almost want to make the claim that it was the first recipe I had ever clipped from the New York Times Dining Section (technically the “Living” section back then…God I’m old) and cooked in my Upper East Side roach-infested studio. The fact that the dish still holds up at my now kid-infested dinner table is a testament to its brilliance. The original version had you concocting your own curry blend with turmeric, cumin, coriander, and cayenne, but I’ve been lazy about this in the past few years and tend to fall back my decent-enough storebought madras curry blend.
Think of the meal as a starter curry for your kids — you can add as much or as little of the curry blend as you think they can handle. But be sure to include the apples — they make the dish fresh-tasting and lend sweetness for the kids. I garnish my plate with sliced almonds (or cashews if I have them) because I like the crunch, but that’s not a do-or-die move either.
Jenny Rosenstrach is a writer, editor and mom of two young girls. She writes the blog Dinner: A Love Story
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