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One of my favorite Indian dishes. Very easy to make. Tasty, healthy eating and you just can't go wrong.

Per Eskimo.com, Vegetable Korma is described as "Vegetables cooked in rich almond cream paste and herbs."

Recipe courtesy of Manjulas Kitchen...you can buy Korma sauce in a jar, but it just ain't the same. Don't cheat yourself. Treat yourself to homecooked Korma. Add chicken or seafood, but it tastes so good, you don't need meat.

Vegetable (Navratan) Korma
This recipe is serving for 4
1 cup chopped cauliflower
1/2 cup green peas
1/4 cup sliced carrot
1/2 cup chopped green beans (about ½" long)
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/3 lb cubed fried paneer (Indian cheese)
2 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro
1 seeded finely chopped green chilly
1 tablespoon shredded ginger
1/2 cup seeded and chopped tomatoes for garnishing
3 tablespoon oil
pinch of hing
1/2 teaspoon cumin seed
1 tablespoon of coriander powder
1/4teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon red chilly powder
2 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon amchoor powder
1 cup milk
1/2tablespoon cornstarch

Photo: Mamie Manneh, Monkey & Meat from Recipezaar

A few years ago, I watched a PBS special on 'bushmeat' or monkey meat in Africa and how the gorillas and monkeys populations were briskly being decimated, due to the high demand for food in many countries. The meat was sold on the black market and in some places openly. I sat in horror as I watched the meat being sold, and the footage of the dead carcasses, but I did not think for once, that the meat would be the center of a court case here in the U.S.

I know many would argue, including monkey meat eaters, and Koreans who eat dog meat, that their eating of monkeys and dogs is no different from people eating beef, chicken, pork, or fish. Bushmeat can be any wild animal. Okay. I get it. But MONKEY??? LOL. It's still a big yuck for me. I don't condemn those who eat it, but monkeys are too high up on the food chain for me. Next is humans. If you have tasted monkey meat before, and it tastes like anything other than chicken, please let me know in vivid detail what it tastes like. An inquiring mind wants to know. Thanks.

Back to the story. Mamie Manneh, 39, a Staten Island resident and native of Liberia is fighting a federal monkey meat case. She is currently in jail for for trying run over a lady she suspected of sleeping with her husband, according to AP news.