My Newly Created Fusion Recipe(Vegan) — Elbow Pasta with Ground Nut Curry Sauce and Nori Flakes

I just created a delicious fusion recipe: an elbow pasta dish with a creamy nut sauce similar to satay gravy, with nori flakes. It tasted so appetizing and moreish, I felt it deserves a mention. You will definitely receive compliments if you serve it to your family, friends and guests.

I created the recipe as part of a healthier alternative to instant ramen noodles, so I tried to use as much simple dried ingredients I could find from my kitchen cabinet.

To make 2 servings, boil 250g of elbow pasta in a pot of boiling water. Add generous amount of salt to the water(as salty as the sea) and a splash of oil. Boil for 9 minutes stirring occasionally until al dente. Pour away most of the pasta water and leave about a 2 cm thickness of pasta water behind with the pasta.

To make the nut sauce, pour 1/3 cup(1/2 for spicier) of curry powder(I use sambar powder from House Brand) and 1 cup of ground nuts(any type of ground nuts, fine or coarse up to you) directly into the pot with the warm pasta. Pour in a liberate amount of oil such as coconut oil(for weight-loss) or other types of oil. Add in 4 tablespoons of flaxseeds for the sauce to be slimy and also if you want some omega 3 fatty acids. Mix everything together until there is a creamy sauce with the warm pasta. Add required sugar/sweetener until the sauce is sweet. I didn't add garlic as I felt the sauce was tasty enough.

Mix in some alfalfa sprouts if you want some fresh greens. Finally, add in some shredded nori flakes. You can choose to mix the nori flakes with the pasta while in the pot, or sprinkle them on top of the pasta before serving. If you are worried about nori containing pollutants, you can choose to use other dark green vegetables and wheat/barley grass powder instead.

Serve and enjoy this delicious Malay-Indian-Japanese fusion pasta. You can eat it with sliced vegan mock fish that comes wrapped with nori, and vegan mock mutton made with mushroom stems(there is a brand that comes frozen without any sauce). You can pair it with a side dish of sliced cucumber to neutralize the spicy aftertaste.

A Quick Explanation of What Karma is

I just want to do a quick write out of what Karma is. I think I have written about this before but I want to mention it again.

When a person does not understand something and has gotten emotionally distraught by his/her ignorance of that thing, then there is Karma. The feeling of a restricting/blocking emotion is a reflection that there is ignorance of that thing and therefore the Karma of the person getting stuck to that situation is present.

Because the person's soul did not get to understand that certain thing while it is in human form, the soul will desire to relive that same experience again by wanting to incarnate into a similar situation. The causes the need for incarnating back into the physical Earth plane to try to fully experience that same situation without a repeat of the resisting ignorance and the blocking/restricting emotions. A situation can be fully understood when there is no false preconceived notions that gets in the way of seeing the big picture.


People's Ego Gets in the Way of Seeing the Truth

The reason why people take a long time to evolve in their spiritual development is due to their exaggerated sense of importance that makes them not want to give in to other points of view in perceiving a certain situation. They think they know best, and they think their way of seeing things is the best way. However, if they are wrong, then they will not be able to perceive certain things in in the bigger picture and in full truthfulness, and therefore they cannot understand that thing fully and will remain emotionally distraught and affected by that thing. Since they cannot understand that thing fully, they cannot move on from it and that is why they are stuck in their spiritual evolution.


Escapism

Many spiritual students think that they can ascend simply by avoiding to face and understand certain worldly things. They assume they are too 'good' and too 'pure' to get their hands dirty to associate themselves with certain worldly things. However, because they did not get to experience and understand certain worldly things that they seek to avoid, their soul is not able to advance in its desire to understand the human reality properly. Their souls will therefore desire to return to the Earthly plane to attempt to experience the things that they missed out on.