Cashew Curry

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This Sri Lankan crockery treats cashews much similar legumes, simmering them full until softened successful an aromatic, creamy, vegan curry. It’s a delightful alteration from cashew-based vegan dishes successful which the seed is blended into a sauce, oregon from utilizing chopped nuts arsenic a garnish. To marque this look spell faster, commencement by soaking cashews successful the boiling water, past prep the remainder of the ingredients.

Refrigerate leftovers for up to 4 days.

Curry leaves and pandan leaves tin beryllium recovered astatine Asian grocers.

The cashews request to beryllium soaked 20 minutes earlier making the curry.

Adapted from “Lanka Food” by O Tama Carey (Hardie Grant, 2022).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6 (makes 6 cups)

3 cups boiling water, positive much arsenic needed
14 ounces earthy cashews
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1/4 cupful lightly packed curry leaves
1 spoon cumin seeds
2 mean yellowish onions (14 ounces total), thinly sliced
5 cloves garlic, finely grated oregon pressed
1 1/2 teaspoons grated caller ginger (from 1 3-inch piece)
1 agelong greenish chile, stemmed and finely chopped
2 tablespoons curry pulverization (see NOTES)
1 spoon crushed turmeric
1/2 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
One (13.5-ounce) tin oregon 3 (5.4-ounce) cans unsweetened coconut pick (see NOTES)
One (3-inch) cinnamon stick
Two (2-inch) pieces pandan leafage (optional)
1 cupful water
1 to 2 tablespoons caller lime juice, to taste
Cooked rice, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 cup), based connected 6

Calories
563
Fat
47 g
Saturated Fat
22 g
Carbohydrates
26 g
Sodium
230 mg
Protein
13 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Lanka Food” by O Tama Carey (Hardie Grant, 2022).

Tested by Joe Yonan and Olga Massov.

Published July 2, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026