recipe: cauliflower and butternut squash

this is inspired by a recipe from one of jamie's thirty minute meals. the original calls for chickpeas and readymade rogan josh paste. and i think cream or yoghurt? maybe vegetable stock too, since it was a very wet curry. i didn't use any of those. no garlic either. also, no water/stock. i did add the fennel bulb, however, and i was going to use baby corn and peas, but forgot. i was famished and just wanted lunch. as quickly as possible. so yeah, flashbang semi-hit.

ingredients:

quarter of a small cauliflower
cubed butternut squash, same volume as the cauliflower
one teaspoonful of cumin
three pods of cardamom
three cloves
coriander leaves
an inch of ginger
half a large red onion
a smallish bulb of fennel
half a red pepper
one tomato, quartered
half a teaspoon of turmeric

order in which things go into the pan: oil->cumin->onion->fennel->butternut squash->cauliflower->red peppers and tomato->turmeric->ginger->salt->cardamom, cinnamon and cloves->coriander leaves

notes to self: don't cover and leave on low too long. cauliflower WILL fairly melt. don't smash cardamom pods with face too close. a stray seed WILL jump and poke you in the eye. also, next time, add chillies. fennel cools the ginger heat.