# @ivanas_tastykitchen on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQCTosHCBjM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61786530-ivanas-tastykitchen-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-20T15:29:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ivana Sanshia | 🇿🇦 Chef (@ivanas_tastykitchen) — https://gondola.cc/ivanas_tastykitchen

## Caption

Simple, comforting, flavourful — the kind of curry that feels like home 🤎✨
Save this for your next cozy night in 🌿🍛

Here’s how to make it ⬇️

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 35–40 minutes
Serves: 4–6

Ingredients:
• ¼ cup sunflower/rapeseed oil
• 1 star anise
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• ½ tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• A few curry leaves
• 3½ tbsp Kashmiri mixed masala
• 1 tbsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp ginger & garlic paste
• 3 jam tomatoes, grated or blended
• Reserved water from boiled butterbeans (for curry base)
• Fresh thyme
• Optional: pinch of sugar
• Salt, to taste
• 1 tsp hing (asafoetida), optional
• 2 gem squash/rondini squash, halved
• 2 medium potatoes, peeled & cubed
• 1 cup boiled butterbeans
• Fresh peas, handful
• Fresh coriander, to garnish

Method:
Heat oil; add star anise, bay leaf, cinnamon, cumin + mustard seeds and let them pop.
Add curry leaves, ginger & garlic paste, masala, turmeric + tomatoes.
Add a little reserved bean water to form the curry base.
Season with salt, thyme + optional sugar.
Add gem squash halves; cook 5 minutes.
Add potatoes; cook until softened.
Stir in boiled butterbeans.
Finish with peas + coriander.
Serve warm with rice, roti, or bread.

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## Tags

southafricanfood, currylovers, weeknightmeals, comfortfood, homecooking, homemadewithlove, vegetarianrecipes, easycurry, gemsquashcurry, butterbeancurry

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