{"id":661,"date":"2011-06-29T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:38:20","slug":"bacon-curry-bacon-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/bacon-curry-bacon-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon Curry (bacon optional)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curry &#8211; a basic in most of the world and Britain&#8217;s most popular dish &#8211; but you can enjoy a great curry on the road without resorting to take-out. Using the most basic of ingredients &#8211; tomatoes, celery, bacon (yes bacon), onions &amp; garlic you can create a meal that will leave you full and happy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKRP-YUAItA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients <\/strong>(4\/6 people)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1lb Bacon<\/li>\n<li>2 Large Onions (roughly chopped)<\/li>\n<li>4 Large Tomatoes (chopped)<\/li>\n<li>2 sticks of Celery (chopped)<\/li>\n<li>Olive Oil (generous amount)<\/li>\n<li>6 Tsp Cumin Seeds<\/li>\n<li>2 Tsp Chilli Powder (depending on taste)<\/li>\n<li>4 cups Rice (3x cups of water to rice)<\/li>\n<li>Courgette (sliced)<\/li>\n<li>6 pieces of Garlic<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp Tomato Puree<\/li>\n<li>2 vegetable stock cubes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get your rice going and &#8216;almost&#8217; cooked &#8211; take off the stove and leave covered to keep warm. Pour in your olive oil (a good amount) and then on a high heat soften your chopped onions and garlic. Once good and soft (but not brown) add your tomato puree, vegitable stock cubes, cumin and chili powder &#8211; this produces a very dry mix with the onions &#8211; but don&#8217;t worry it&#8217;s exactly as you want it. Give it a good mix and let the onions soften a little more. Turn the heat down a little.<\/p>\n<p>Now drop in your chopped tomatoes, celery, and courgette &#8211; mix well and turn the heat right down. Cover and let simmer with occasional stirring for around 15 mins if you&#8217;re not adding the bacon.<\/p>\n<p>If you are adding bacon &#8211; chop your bacon into thin strips and add to the curry &#8211; if you&#8217;re using other pieces of meat (like chicken or beef) make sure you brown this off in the pot before you start &#8211; with bacon you don&#8217;t need to do this as it will cook quite happily in the curry from raw. Cover and occasional stir for around 15 mins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curry &#8211; a basic in most of the world and Britain&#8217;s most popular dish &#8211; but you can enjoy a great curry on the road without resorting to take-out. Using the most basic of ingredients &#8211; tomatoes, celery, bacon (yes bacon), onions &amp; garlic you can create a meal that will leave you full and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/bacon-curry-bacon-optional\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bacon Curry (bacon optional)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[235,77,165,126,143,241],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-travel","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-how-to","tag-recipe","tag-stove","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}