My recipe for a delicious fruit curry:

This should serve about 6 people comfortably..

Olive oil
1 Large onion OR 2 small onions
1 or 2 cloves of garlic to taste, 3 if you like garlic as much as my good self..

3 Green Chillies - 2 if you are a wimp
1-2 apples.. Normal Apples are fine.. cooking apples are more for sweets and pudding dishes..
1 orange
2 Bananas
1/2 a melon
1/2 pineapple
1 Mango
small tin of Sweetcorn
1 vegetable stock cube.. Maybe 1 and a half..
4-6 tomatoes OR 1 large tin chopped tomatoes in tomato juice
Tomato puree – roughly 1 teaspoon
Curry powder Mild, Medium or Hot
Single Cream
Coconut juice
Sultanas
Paprika

Serve with Rice

- Method –

1. Warm the olive oil in a pan on a low heat.

2. Peel and chop the onion(s). Preferably in large chunks rather than diced to death. Add to the pan and let it simmer away

3. Chop and crush the garlic. Add to the pan. chop chilli finely and add to the pan...

4. Chop the apple, removing the core and stem and add to the pan..

5. Peel and chop the orange into chunks. Add this to the pan.

6. Peel and chop the Mango. Add this to the pan.

7. Peel and chop the pineapple... Add this to the pan too..

8. Peel and chop the Melon... Guess what? you add this to the pan as well..

9. If you are using fresh tomatoes, chop and add to the pan. Otherwise, open the tin of tomatoes and tip into the pan. Fresh tomatoes are so much better and you will be rewarded for using them instead of chopped tomatoes.. trust me on this..

10. Let this simmer away for at least 10 minutes, stirring occasionally

8. If you have used fresh tomatoes, mix the stock with 100-200ml of water. How much water you use depends entirely on just what consistency you want. For a thicker curry, use less water. Let's face facts.. Thick Curry rules..

If you have used tinned tomatoes, you do not need to add water as the juice from the tomatoes will act as the base for your sauce – just crumble the stock cube into the pan.

9. Add the tomato puree. You can use tomato ketchup, if you really have to.. Just don't tell anyone you used it...

10. Taste the sauce. Season to taste with random herbs and Spices (Salt, Pepper, Corriander, Paprika, Ginger).. Worcester sauce is also good..

11. Add the coconut juice.. normally half a tin should do it.. but add according to taste (My Home Economics teacher hated people saying this, she certainly hated me for it.. But look where I've got today but telling people to add according to their own taste! hahahahaha.. why be regimented and stick to someone else's recipe?.. cooking is all about experimentation)

12. Chop banana and add to the pan (we add this much later than the other fruits due to it's tendency to fall apart)

13. Take a large handful of Sultanas and throw indisriminately into the pan..

15. Add the sweetcorn..

16. Leave this mix to cook on a low heat for five to ten minutes, stirring regularly.

17. Put the rice on to boil in a separate pan, I can't cook rice.. I try and I try and I try... and I always fail... So if you're like me.. Get someone else to do it... There are two types of people in this world.... etc etc..

18. Add the curry powder to the sauce. Again, the best cooking phrase in the world comes into play: ADD ACCORDING TO TASTE.. The best thing to do is add a little, taste it, add more, taste it... Repeat the process until you reach perfection..


19 The Cream should now be added.. Again, some people like their Curries creamier than others so you are best off adding and tasting as you go until you reach the perfect texture.. Sorry for those who like precise measurements but honestly where is the fun in being precise?

20. Cook for another 5-10 Minutes on a low heat

21 Add fresh chopped Corriander

22 Drain the rice..

23 Naan bread

There you have it.. A meal that will distort peoples faces into a confused mess when you tell them the source of that 'Amazing smell' emanating from the Kitchen. This will then swiftly turn their expression into an enchanted one as soon as they taste this culinary magnum opus...