Potato Pakora

I've been wanting Indian food, and found this recipe on my phone. Probably should have cut the potatoes from circles into sticks, but now I know for next time! Also, I'll add more spice!

It didn't seem to matter that I used regular flour instead of chickpea flour either.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1/2 cup of water
• salt
• chili powder
• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 3 inches of ginger, chopped
• 2 cups vegetable oil
• 3 big potatoes, sliced thin
• Paper towels

Directions:

1) Mix the flour and water.
2) Add the salt, pepper, garlic and ginger and mix well.
3) Heat the oil in a large frying pan.










4) Dip the potato in the flour mixture and add to the frying pan.
5) Fry until brown.






6) Remove from oil and place on paper towels to soak up excess oil.

Vegetarian Chili

The boyfriend had never had chili until a week before I made this and asked if it was possible for me to make it vegetarian...so I did!

Taken from here with slight alterations

Ingredients:

• 2 TBSP olive oil
• 1 bell pepper, diced
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 carrots, diced
• 2 tsp chili powder
• 2 tsp paprika
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 4 bay leaves
• 14 oz can of diced tomatoes
• 14 oz can of kidney beans
• salt and pepper

Directions:

1) Heat the oil in a large pot on medium/high heat









2) Add the bell pepper, onion and carrots and saute for 5 minutes.








3) Add the chili powder, paprika, cinnamon and bay leaves and cook for another 10 minutes.








4) Add the tomatoes and cook for another 10 minutes.








5) Add the kidney beans, lower the heat, and cook for another 10 minutes.
6) Remove the bay leaves before serving.