Potatoes instead of rice with curry

[MrsBertMacklin]

Because I'm calorie-counting at the moment...

I was thinking of just par-boiling, then adding them in with the chicken as in ingredient, but is there a more exciting thing I could do (without loading on extra oil/fat?)

Not really answering your question, but try sweet potatoes as well. Lovely.

Add loads of low cal veg to your curry like cauliflower broccoli peas and then eat with either yoghurt drizzled over, or a whole meal pitta. That's how I cut calories with curry.

I love potatoes in curry. Your plan sounds like a good one, new potatoes are lovely this time of year, or just serve the curry with a baked potato?

Cauliflour is also a great for low cal bulking out of curries and tastes gorgeous imho.

In fact if you want low fat curry; vegie is the way to go.

MMM cheese and pea curry for tea I think.

Balls, forgot to check this before coming home, could have stopped off at the shop for cauliflower.

However, I have found a sweet potato lurking in the salad drawer! Half that, half new potatoes I think.

You could copy MnS and grate the potato over the top to make crusty textured topping. Think rosti style appearance but they call it potato bhaji topping I think.

We don't really like rice so I often put potatoes into a curry to bulk it out. As a pp said though, if you have the time making a separate dish, like sag aloo, makes the meal feel more jazzed up.

Lentils?

I had no idea potatoes were lower calorie than rice. Thanks for a very enlightening post..!

I wouldn't fart-arse about. Pile of mash, then add curry on the top. What is wrong with that?

Aren't potatoes the same calorific count as white rice?

chapatis?
yoghurt with mint and cucumber?

Yeah, I'm not sure that they're much of a low-cal alternative to rice. And sweet potaotes aren't much different in terms of calories or carbs either, though they do have other good stuff in them. You could try the fake cauliflower rice idea.

A cup of potatoes is around half the calories of a cup of rice.

Fewer weightwatchers points too - 50g rice is 5 points and 50g potatoes is 1 point. But I think rice is more filling (personally) so that's maybe why.

Look up a recipe for Bombay potatoes?

Thanks all, the curry was demolished last night! Although its' smell is still refusing to shift from my flat...

I do it all the time and I'm a real Indian so that makes me a curry expert.

My work here is done.

Oh god I've killed another thread, sorry

Is brown rice the same in WW points and/or calories as white rice? How do lentils compare? Just interested.

Brown rice and white rice are the same WW points Jam, lentils are a little less at 3 points per 50g. They consider lentils 'filling foods' which are the foods they encourage you to eat - so these are often pointed less than their actual calorific value.

Without wishing to send everyone to sleep, WW isn't always based on the facts - they want you to eat fruit and veg (obvs) so most fruit and veg (apart from potatoes, yams etc) is set at 0 points, so you can eat as much as you like. Obviously fruit and veg does not have a completely neutral value, they do include calories. Same with the filling foods, I would guess that lentils have a higher calorific value than their points would suggest, but given they are low fat, high fibre (and to be fair, very filling) a lower points value encourages people to eat more of them.

Thanks WilsonF.

Rice is a grain, pasta, bread and couscous come from grains. Potatoes are a tuber, a completely different biological structure. Yes they both have starch but that's where the similarity ends.

And they have vitamin C and they have a bit of flavour and yes they have half the calories of rice.

No fewer calories, but it's certainly delicious. We've discovered that M&S lamb rogan gosht is absolutely delicious served with a few oven chips and a huge pile of veg! Cauliflower goes particularly well with curry, as does a plain salad of spinach leaves, cucumber and tomatoes.

You can make a lovely curry by simmering chicken in chopped tomatoes, peppers and onions with spices. The only fat is vegetable oil and the chicken of course. Yummy yummy yummy.

Oh, I was going to suggest chips but see that it's supposed to be low-cal