YAM CURRY!

Hello little friends! Yesterday I made a very simple and also very delicious curry dish that I want to share with you! Since it is getting closer and closer to winter, I'm finding more and more yams available! I love yams. I use them interchangeably with sweet potatoes, but they really are two different vegetables. Sweet potatoes are popular in Southern United States cuisine, while yams are more often used in Caribbean or Latin American cooking. Yams have more natural sugar than sweet potatoes, and also a higher moisture content. At any rate, I love yams slightly more so this recipe is with yams but you can of course use a sweet potato!

Yam and Spinach Curry

3 Yams, peeled and cubed
2T coconut oil

1T curry powder

1tsp cayenne pepper

1/4 tsp cardamom 

1/4tsp nutmeg

1 yellow onion, diced

2tsp grated fresh ginger

5 cloves garlic, minced

10 oz spinach, washed
1T red curry paste
1tsp salt
16oz coconut milk

1.   Preheat oven to 400
2.   Put yams in a bowl and toss to coat with coconut oil
3.   Mix together curry powder, cayenne pepper, cardamon and nutmeg. 
4.   Place yams on a baking tray, sprinkle spice mixture over yams (you should have some left over)
5.   Bake yams until they are cooked through, and tender
6.   While the yams are baking, heat your pan of choice over a medium flame with 1T of coconut oil
7.   When the oil is hot, add your onion, ginger and garlic, saute for about 3 minutes.
8.   Stir in the red curry paste. The paste will want to stay together in a lump; make sure you break it up
      your spatula
9.   Add your spinach, "fry" the spinach for about 1 minute
10. Add coconut milk and salt, stir to coat spinach
11. Add in your yams, reduce heat to medium low, cover and allow to simmer 

And thats it! Wait until your spinach is fully wilted and serve! This recipe would also be delicious with chickpeas, which you could add at the same time you add your coconut milk. And of course mixed in with quinoa or rice! Below are two of my renditions of this dish. I added some photos of mine below, so you will have a general idea of what you are getting into.  

Yam curry

Curry and rice