The Simplest Curry Recipe ever - with @TheChainsawLama

[@BillNyeTheBountyGuy]

The calmest chainsaw wielding curry cooking monk.

[@ultimatemeaning]

😆🤣😆 🙏🙏🙏

[@EarthWindFireable]

Scrape the chopped veggies off the cutting board into the pot with the back of the knife, that way you're saving the blade.

[@gierasole]

its just home cooking- you dont need to get fancy. i like that tip, but maybe sometimes its nicer not to worry about a little knife. :)

[@mOwOhib]

it was peaceful to watch ya cook

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 Peace is good! 🙏🙏🙏

[@EmptyWasabi]

Learning to cook dried legumes and rice is one of the most useful skills any human can learn. It's very affordable, quick, versatile, and healthy. It saddens me how many people these days cannot cook basic meals for themselves because they associate cooking with a complicated recipe. I think this keeps people from cooking at all. We need more content like this out there! Thanks again for another great video.

[@WaleskaSantiago-d8k]

You forgot to mention: it's indigestible and full of antinutrients, pesticides and herbicides, but ok.

[@uncleurda8101]

@@WaleskaSantiago-d8k I'll graciously accept this challenge

[@ultimatemeaning]

I just have to agree! 🙏🙏🙏

[@komyuhachi]

9:30 the 20th century? How long is the backlog, my brother 🤣

[@ultimatemeaning]

Shows how old I am! 😆🤣😆

[@X4R2]

Homecooking can make even the most simple dishes tasty and fulfilling. Maybe it's the patience and care for the craft.

[@MacShrike]

looks delicious. Yet using actual ingredients; that's cheating As a self-taught cook, I would fry the garlic with the unions and the mushrooms (not sure why; I think cooking garlic, removes its bitterness/impurities but also, looses its power). There is this Japanese dish that is called Mononabe (Mono = things, Nabe = clay pot) you get the gist. Its a broth of any leftovers in whatever bouillon you can concoct(for a vegan I would suggest Shitake mushrooms). By "simple" I think I understand you are referring to: without killing-and-death of animal life. I tried cooking a fish dish once according to Escoffier (a French cooking zealot =). It took a lot of time and effort, also it is nearly impossible to do and get it to the table not luke-warm. But it was really splendid and worthwhile. I guess If you want to kill a fish for your nourishment, you should give it your all. That got me thinking: perhaps it is all about optimal effectiveness + efficiency. A.k.a perfection. This should/would encompass the not killing part perhaps. I heard this Indian woman saying: "If you are not prepared to take your time making his curry, please do not do it"; then again, she was using chicken. Dunno. But I like me a good curry any day. Trying to mix cooking/eating with existence/fairness/sustainability is a bit of a downer at first glance; but when you eat and taste it is really isn't, isn't it.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Oh! MAc you are a chef, join the club. I used to run a restaurant back in the day!

[@jeanthornton2107]

Nothing smells better than fried onions. Delights the palette and makes the tongue joyful ❤

[@ClaraMagdalenaDesposyni]

Yes, I agree, Lama la. My 3 youngest daughters & I used to cook for the various lamas who came to the 2 sanghas we belonged to. Good food and good meals were always important to them. That being said, they were always grateful for our efforts, and also open to some western cooking. Primarily, we cooked Indian & Tibetan style. But an occasional pasta dinner was always appreciated, too.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Tibetans just loooove their food🙏🙏🙏

[@higamerXD]

This was a really nice video to watch hopefully i can cook this too soon, thanks for making this its very pleasant to watch

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 The cooking bit is really just an excuse to talk about meditation lol

[@higamerXD]

@ultimatemeaning but it works so well! Really its a nice backdrop to the video and at the same time a good recipe. I have issues that prevent me from working so i dont cook often, but this really makes me wana try it more often. I thend to think of things as a much bigger wall then they actually are, so again thank you for this video i really hope to cook this sometime soon

[@giannireece9595]

Will give a try!

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 let me know

[@Drumsnelson93]

I needed this video. Best buddhist asmr channel out there.

[@FranK-td5jq]

Oh wow thank you so much! I will definitely try this recipe out one day :)

[@ultimatemeaning]

Let me know how it turns out friend 🙏🙏🙏

[@cabudagavin3896]

Yum ⭕

[@ultimatemeaning]

😋😋😋

[@JordanREALLYreallyOK]

I love your definition of a tablespoon. I think I'll take it as my own!

[@ultimatemeaning]

lol 🙏🙏🙏

[@ClaraMagdalenaDesposyni]

Awesome cooking video, Lama Choga!! I love curries & also love red lentils. I have about 1.5 cups of organic red lentils in the cupboard & almost all of the other ingredients on hand (out of garam masala at the moment, will substitute canned tomatoes for fresh). I can't do brown rice (too much fiber/g.i. issues); white rice for me. Some avocado on top would be nice, too! I love kombucha. If you feel so inclined, it would be nice if sometime in future, you would like to share your process & recipe. (I had some original starter given to me by my son, but a then-housemate accidentally dropped the glass jar before I had a chance to try it).

[@ClaraMagdalenaDesposyni]

The lamas whom my daughters & I used to cook for always loved pappadums. So did my daughters, lol!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Great idea Clara, Kombucha is extremely easy to make and I have a very tasty recipe for Peach Kombucha 🙏🙏🙏

[@paulmorin1286]

GREAT RECIPE . WILL TRY IT, SEEMS SIMPLE AND DELICIOUS, THANKS.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 certainly simple!

[@icantsleeprightnow]

That looks absolutely delicious, Lama!

[@co_iso]

20:55 "is your mouth watering?" yeah.. it has been for the entire video since you started cooking 😁 appreciate the recipe and your words. even simple and mundane tasks like cooking can be incredibly inspirational. thanks for sharing with us!

[@mandragon8108]

❤

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hiya MD 🙏🙏🙏

[@anuworldorder]

Thanks for cooking for us, looks so tasty!! ....I agree, decrease what you want, decrease what you have Life is much more beautiful and simple!!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Ah the simple life (was much easier in the monastery! 🙏🙏🙏

[@anuworldorder]

@ultimatemeaning 😂😂😂 I bet, it's pretty hectic here in the states, I think most traded their contentment for a rat race, ....it's great to hear you speak, thank you

[@CuttinInIdaho]

I clicked on this video because I am putting off an awakening I can feel rising inside of myself...that the illusion is going to reveal itself. After years of discontent and filling my head with as much as I could find to seek and end to all of that, I hit a dead end. Then I started watching you and a couple others. Now I am scared lol! Thank you for this video, and I will return to other more insightful videos when "I" feel the time is right.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 I'm not scary am I ? 😆🤣😆

[@CuttinInIdaho]

@@ultimatemeaning LOL! No way:)

[@krobbins8395]

I practice Ayurveda and Kitcharis are great for healing/balancing energy for a calm mind. I make ghee to cook the onions, garlic and unground spices in. Rinsing the legumes and rice is important. I like to soak and sprout mine.

[@ultimatemeaning]

I do love ghee! 🙏🙏🙏

[@hashishi9]

You got my attention at "curry", and I was hooked at "red lentils". My favourite food, usually, is "orange lentil surprise" (surprise, it's got lentils!)

[@hashishi9]

So this is basically the thing I make, even the spices are pretty much the same :D Good stuff, the bestest, I would say.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Absolutely love lentils 😋

[@Russiancase]

a tip to keep the knife sharp - scrape vegies off the board with the dull side of the knife :)

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for the tip (I must say I don't really like this knife- it is sharp but too thin) 🙏🙏🙏

[@Russiancase]

@@ultimatemeaning i then realised you got this tip already from another person) I wasn't expecting you answering the comment, so I'll take the moment and say your videos are great and I do appreciate the effort you put into them! I wonder if you be interested in answering a question about art-life and Buddhism? Thanks again!

[@dreamingacacia]

I think it's fine to have desires and fulfilling them. It's become problematic when those desires become excessive instead of necessities.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes and not all Buddhists focus on desire in the same way, for example many Zen monks get married and drink alcohol, and the Tantric practitioners get up to all sorts🙏🙏🙏

[@Openskylook]

South asian+east asian based spirituality served with delicious and mouth watering south asian+east asian food. I also very much love to eat another fusion called indo-chinese food. Oriental and south asian food and also its combination and fusion. Simply the best food in the world.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Funny I used to have a fusion art gallery restaurant 🙏🙏🙏

[@Openskylook]

@@ultimatemeaning what a fecking coincident. Almost like synchronicity. Along with south and east asian cuisine in love south east asian cusine also..men this 3 sub contniets has best cusine and fusion food in the world.

[@anthropicandroid4494]

A familiar introduction to the channel; considering the advantageous mise en place as a fine woodworking tool next to the chainsaw leads to reduced cooking patterns, less sorts of ingredients to stock.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Can't wait to build the greenhouses 🙏🙏🙏

[@anthropicandroid4494]

@@ultimatemeaning I'll stay tuned! Mine are many seasons late, my days spent measuring navigational orbits and washing dishes; I need to engage in heavy labor again. My workspace is clean, at least =]

[@ClaraMagdalenaDesposyni]

A point of clarification on a comment I made on your previous cooking video: I said that cooking is very time-consuming. It may or may not be, depending upon one's circumstances. Because I do not have working plumbing (no running water & no working kitchen drain), I have to haul hot water & cold water in 1-gallon jugs from the other end of the house. Doing this dozens of times per day for all cooking needs, plus, for drinking, pets' needs, fruit & veggie washing, *and* for dishwashing & housecleaning needs is very labor-intensive & time-consuming. The necessity of hauling water makes ordinary meal preparation a lot of work for me. Because of this, I try to limit cooking to one meal a day. Like you, I also try to make one dish that can last for at least 3 days.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Are you off grid?

[@blumythefool777]

I loovee your cooking videos

[@wittypun4786]

Very easy and tasty looking recipe combined with some great wisdom. I've definitely thought about how we need to live much more simply and that it would make our lives easier. I feel like I spend much less money than most, though I dont doubt there is still much improvement on my end. Thank you very much for these videos though ❤️❤️❤️

[@MichaelMarko]

Dharma brother! Where’s the hing? But, looks delicious .😂 I love dal! For breakfast with fried eggs is nice. Yes, my mouth is watering.

[@ultimatemeaning]

I am a Dhal nut myself 🙏🙏🙏

[@MichaelMarko]

@@ultimatemeaning but I’m not so careful with spelling. LOL

[@giorgossol-uj6jc]

👍

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ninaallchurch3101]

Hmm curry looks delish! How do you make your homemade peach kombucha please?

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hi Nina Clara asked for the recipe so I will post something when I get back from Korea🙏🙏🙏

[@ocignath3221]

Next video: Mukbang with the Dharma

[@ultimatemeaning]

Had to look that up and I thinks its a great and hilarious idea! 😆🤣😆

[@franzhaas5597]

I eat out of a bowl, and that's it. I also threw away my bed, and I sleep on a mat on the floor, and I've been sleeping soundly. It also helps that I don't have a wife and kids. I believe in simple living and you're right people have too much stuff📿🙏

[@ClaraMagdalenaDesposyni]

@franzhaas5597: I also started sleeping on the floor with only blankets when I was a teenager, as a method of building self-discipline, etc. Decades later, after leaving all of my furniture behind in an emergency exit from an abusive spouse, I spent a number of years sleeping on a wooden floor with only blankets. It was fine for a few years, but when I developed Lyme's disease in my spine, it became a very painful experience.

[@franzhaas5597]

@ClaraMagdalenaDesposyni wow, that's terrible. I admire you're discipline and stay healthy as you can.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Sleeping on the floor rocks 🙏🙏🙏

[@MissLuluKali]

Why do the monks not eat garlic and onion in the monestry, Is it preference or just not something provided ? I love lentils 👀

[@ultimatemeaning]

They say these types of food increase your sexual desire. But in the Vajrayana texts it says that onions, etc., reduce the efficacy of your mantra practice.

[@Preston1704]

Thx for the recipe and wisdom❤️

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@maryfreund4957]

Looks yummy!! Too bad it's fructans 🥺 😢. I'm pretty sure processed foods is how my belly got messed up.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yeah processed food really messes you up 🙏🙏🙏

[@Openskylook]

I heard about monk who sold his Ferrari but first time i heard about monk who sold his restaurant 🤣🤣🤣. You used to run and own fusion galley restaurant I dint knew that thank you for telling And here iam talkinf about fusion cusine. what a fecking coincident. Almost like synchronicity. Along with south and east asian cuisine in love south east asian cusine also..men this 3 sub contniets has best cusine and fusion food in the world. om mani padme hum 🙏🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yeah it was called Zazen! 😆🤣😆

[@ShiWolfe]

I hope I could throw this in an instant pot.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@demus89]

Thank you teacher. Going to make this for my girlfriend tomorrow.

[@sonjalingchungtsang1097]

A cooking video jam packed with wisdom. Beautiful 🥰. Thank you Lama 🙏🙏🙏.

[@Victor54327]

Gotta try to make one myself i love the simple nature of this recipe and simplicity in general is great.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Maitreyalovesyou]

Your house is beautiful ❤❤❤

[@monical8325]

Wow! Curry..I love curry. It is good on anything- rice, noodles, 🥖.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 I'll do some noodle dish next time 🙏🙏🙏

[@Bowie_E]

I am very excited to make this 🤗 I would definitely love to learn more simple recipes like this as well 🤗 thank you for sharing 🙏

[@Bowie_E]

I made it and it was fantastic. I used a can of tomatoes bc that's what I have and parsnips along with the carrots, onion, and mushroom. I used garam masala as well and kashmirii red chili 🌶 *chef's kiss* thank you again 🤗

[@nimlouth]

That's pretty much my weekly staple curry haha. I do everything on one pot tho. I've been a vegetarian and sustainable-concious for a couple of years now and I agree 100% with your points about simplifying food and cooking. And I also agree 100% with your points about our current growth-hungry capitalist economy. I cook most of my food for me and my wife, including things like bread and crackers. I eat with one bowl, one cup, one spoon too.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yeah I should have fried the onion in the pot before doing the lentils 🙏🙏🙏

[@SethEvans-r2j]

Soak over night, makes cleaning easier. BRICS vs IMF.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yeah works great 🙏🙏🙏

[@SethEvans-r2j]

@@ultimatemeaning Grow your own. Local Business beat em both.

[@demus89]

Thank you my girlfriend loves it!

[@MeloettaMarmalade]

Thank you for this!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Welcome 🙏🙏🙏

[@donavanc601]

Llama Choga, I am both afraid and compelled to leave a comment. The sincerity of your work has been lighting a fire within me. I consider myself a fake, a false prophet, someone who cherry picks sayings attributed to Gautama Buddha and thinks or believes themselves monk like. Your sincerity is making me pursue the dhamma and I just wanted to share this experience with you. Its both confusing and awe inspiring.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Wow! your words shake me up. Your honesty is gratifying friend 🙏🙏🙏

[@osinaki]

🙇‍♂🌈

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@vavqnok473]

amazing

[@au9parsec]

A Buddha Bowl 🙏🥣🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥💛💙 They love there wooden bowls but in the Vinaya it says you shouldn't make them out of wood lol ♥💛💙

[@martindiaries]

Chasing some arbitrary future goal, so you can have "more free time" when you are all set up, while in reality you waste all your present time always feeling unfulfilled is the satire of the 21st century. That's why Dharma teaches us that this "future" doesn't exist, you're always living in the present, so enjoy yourself now 🙏 Btw the lentil curry looks very appetizing 😄 thanks for sharing!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Same to you friend🙏🙏🙏

[@ShiWolfe]

ooo, add full fat coconut milk for some extra indulgence

[@ultimatemeaning]

OOOH I love coconut curry!

[@codyspinelli5609]

It’s so refreshing to hear someone talk some sense in our insane asylum of a planet 😆 I want Buddhist curry now

[@acex222]

Surprised you don't get garlic in the monastery. In the Pali vinaya there's a lot about garlic being fine for health purposes but that you shouldn't really be eating it (iirc).

[@ultimatemeaning]

They don't eat in the Korean and Tibetan temples but they do eat chili

[@Happy_Limpet]

Should really have used wood gathered from the trees and an open fire , tsk tsk .. black mirrors and the grid got everyone looking for the next acquistion . Am guilty of many curries ,dhansak being a regular but never cooked with lentils 🧐

[@ultimatemeaning]

I am happy with the hydroelectricity but I will be building an outdoor clay oven and Dutch oven just as you suggest❤

[@Happy_Limpet]

@@ultimatemeaning Pizzzaaaahhhh 😀

[@krischena]

this papadums ! Lama that is hiorrible. . . . .. .. . . .. .Ye forgot to mention the mint-pesto!

[@ultimatemeaning]

I like basil pesto myself. Mint and pea pasta is nice 🙏🙏🙏

[@forrestgnome7160]

Why on earth is he making curry

[@ultimatemeaning]

Because there is earth and there are lentils 😆🤣🤣

[@forrestgnome7160]

Sir that comment made me smile a lot thank you so much

[@AzmialPrime]

Lentil curry, one of my fall favorites! I predict we will eat quite well at Lama Choga's retreats! 🐕‍🦺🙏🐕‍🦺

[@cabudagavin3896]

Where do you live? How much did you pay for it? Did you build your house? How much did you pay for materials? If you live out further out, how do you travel? If you payed alot for it, how did you earn it?

[@ultimatemeaning]

I am using materials from the forest to build everything. Check out @TheChainsawLama for information about the build🙏🙏🙏

[@cabudagavin3896]

Cook on mass and you will save mountains of time.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Normally I do this for myself but I am only at the retreat one day a week. the rest of the time I look after my parents 🙏🙏🙏

[@Maitreyalovesyou]

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