will this vege curry work?

[poshme]

I quite fancy a curry tonight and have the following veg:
courgettes, leeks, potato, carrots, chick peas, peppers, parsnips mushrooms, onions
I also have creamed coconut (never used it before - usually have cocnut milk)
and tinned tomatoes and rogan josh paste.
I have quite a few dried spice and curry powder.
do you think it would make a nice curry if I fried off the onions and then added either the rogan josh paste or the curry powder and then just added all the other veg chopped up?
I usually follow a set recipe and use either prawns or chicken, neither of which I have and cant get b4 tonight.
I'm not sure whether to use all the veg, or miss out, say the parsnips.
I dont eat a lot of veggie food - am trying to for financial reasons, and dont want to sit down to eat tonight and feel disappointed.
I've looked online but cant seem to find a recipe that jumps out at me as what I want.
Any advice?

I often use parsnip in curry. I like the combination. I make a vegetable curry all the time with most of what you mention apart from the leeks.

I usually fry onion, garlic, add the spices, coat the chopped up veg in this mixture, add tin toms, some coconut milk and some stock and cook. If tinned chickpeas I add near the end of cooking.

Oh thank you! The chickpeas are tinned so I will leave till the end - if I simmer for 30 mins will that be enough do you think?

It would be fine. Leeks are nice in curry but I'm not sure about the parsnips. I'd use the paste rather than curry powder and add the chickpeas about ten mins before the end. The mushrooms might be better fried separately and added right at the end, or cooked separately with a bit if cumin and turmeric as a side dish.

It depends if you're trying to use up the contents of your fridge or not - sometimes less is more! I agree parsnip is lovely in curry, I'd maybe leave out peppers and leeks and possibly courgettes and have more of a root veg type of curry. Courgettes could end up being a bit mushy. If you use leeks I'd try them with the onions first. Agree with remus might be nicer to do two different dishes than have everything in one.