red bean pumpkin

OK, one person dinner is tough.

i am so tempted to make curry everytime!

my fav is always tuna curry cos it is so so easy!

all done in one pot n curry will never go wrong any day any time.

tuna, some veg and potatoes to give the curry some thickness, and just microwave frozen rice to go with. or, yeah toast goes good too.

but if i eat so much curry, i worry that i will turn orange soon. hehe

so, yeap, put in some effort...

grilled herb (shiso flake) chicken fillet on multi grain rice

vegetable soup with red dates

and... i planned to just make do with that 2 dishes... until i felt, hey i havent had red bean paste for a long time (the last time was on thur?). so, i decided to try this dish on my to do list since i saw this at the cooked food section in the mart a few years ago!

red bean simmered pumpkin

when i first saw this, i was drooling at it... my favourite red bean! my favourite simmered pumpkin! but unfortunately i wasnt living here when i first saw this, and this happened to be sold in a bento set and i just had lunch somewhere else =(

OK! so finally i get to make this. checked up the recipe and apparantly it is a sweet dish made without sugar!!! so it can be eaten as part of your meal. it is really really simple to make, and after tasting this, i think this will be a good idea whenever i crave both red bean paste cos there is no sugar added to this dish. if i ate red bean paste everyday, my weighing scale will not show a very friendly figure eh?

red bean pumpkin

1/2 cup red beans

pumpkin (1/4 a large one)

1 tsp salt

boil red beans in 2 cups of water till soft.

when water has reduced to the minumum and beans are soft, add pumpkin chunks, 1 tsp of salt, pour in more water till pumpkin is just covered.

cover the pot with lid and simmer till pumpkin is soft. open lid to let the excess water evaporate.

i nearly finished the whole pot since i kept going back for seconds.

by the time J gets to try this, i think it will all be in my tummy =P
(well, froze a small portion, u get to try it in ur bento ^.^)