Ways to Pleasure the Carnivore (…otherwise known as leftover Indian food wraps)

When you order Indian food for a family of carnivores, carnivore-like behaviour ensues. Despite the fact that dishes like Chicken Dansak or Chicken Punjabi come surrrounded with crunchy, fibrous and nutritious vegetables, the carnivores at the table seek out the meat like starving alligators.

Wonderful dishes like Aloo cabbage or Baingan Bhartha are treated as condiments while the carnivores lap up meat and sauce with slabs of Naan. At the end of their pillage you are left with vegetables, lots of vegetables  and approximately 4 chunks of meat.

The next day you decide to eat the left overs for lunch (all week) and plan to make some other carnivorous meal for dinner. But then you sit to write and you get carried away. You write for hours without taking the time to slaughter animals. Suddenly it is dinner time and there is no offering. You have only left-over Indian vegetables and a couple of chunks of meat that managed to save themselves by hiding under sauce and peppers.

The Leftovers

So you get creative and work with what you have…

Left Over Indian Wraps

Chop up the 4 chunks of meat into tiny pieces so that the odds of getting a meat fragment in your wrap is high.

Chop  the potatoes into meat-like pieces.

Chop the other leftover vegetables small so that they are indistinguishable.

Put all sauces and pureed vegetables, chopped meat and vegetables, along with the left-over rice into a pan.

In the pan

Mix together and sautee until warm.

Wrap the mixture in a flour tortilla and sear in a panini  maker until there are grill marks (This is important because sometimes when the carnivore sees grill marks he thinks it’s a steak and this pleasures him.)

Grill Marks

Ready to wrap

Cut diagonally and serve with mango chutney. Congratulate yourself on your cunning, thriftiness and ingenuity.

Ready to serve