Modified Keema

I'm currently on the South Beach diet. And I also currently have three kids with very disparate and definitive food tastes. I was lucky to get requests for hamburgers from Aden and Spaghetti and Meatballs from Kalan, so I bought a family pack of ground beef and went at it.

Keema is a ground meat dish usually with peas. Comfort food. I made this in my trusty Le Crueset pot, but it will work equally well in a slow cooker I'd imagine. In case someone fancies a bit of Indian...

First on chopping. I have a German hand grinder that chops things very very small. A food processor of course works for those with that sort of technology at hand. Decent knife skills are also good of course, although I was cooking 5 dishes simultaneiously and need to move fast.

Saute minced onions (one large or whatever is on hand), a generous amount of minced garlic. When they are decently sweated, put ground coriander, cumin, and curry to taste (I twice the coriander). After a minute or so, add three to four large minced zucchini (this is a huge modification, but it made for a very nice texture) let it sweat for a while and then a handful of minced meat. Cook this for a while until the meat loses the pink. I then threw in a fair amount of tomato which made it deliciously sloppy joe like. Add salt and pepper to taste. I also threw in a chopped jalepeno and some chopped cilantro.

Eat with rice. If you aren't on the South Beach diet like I am.