m. 21 paneer and zucchini herbed rice and butter soft zucchini and tomatoes (louki tamatar tarkari)

with a surplus of courgettes sitting in the fridge, m and i have been scouring cookbooks to come up with ways to use them, today i had the idea to turn once again to yamuna devi, and the result was amazing:

(the quality of my photos seems to be inversely related to the actual beauty of the food itself--both in image and in taste, so the more amazing the food the more ridiculous the photo) 

the rice was basically a pilaf with zucchini and paneer, it was delicious, and in the wintery future (if we ever have one) this rice could be made just with the paneer, the buttery courgettes and tomatoes was incredible, yamuna (aka joan) you have really outdone yourself this time, and here is an adapted version of the recipe (spinach is added at the very end, something we did not do).

the best thing was that the two dishes took just an hour from start to finish, m said "if you can make food this good there is no reason to out for curry,"  but she also said "is there any left, i can't wait to eat it for lunch" ... there go the leftovers!