Doctor Sharma's Cooking Prescription #1

Maybe its just me getting inured with utter tripe, but in my not-so-humble opinion, Sharma's cooking is rather good. Note the subtle British understatement. Also, it (the cooking style) cannot be classified. So, we at the Sharma Experimental Cooking Dispensary proudly announce the launch of this regular feature. Today I shall tell you how to cook something I made yesterday. I don't know what it is called, but it tasted damn good.

This will feed 3-4 people, or one particularly large specimen - a special man!

You will need:

The Basics
5-6 teaspoon Olive Oil
1 Onion cut into strips
4 medium sized Tomatoes cut into discs

The Masala
1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
1 teaspoon red Chili (seeds version is better than the ground one)
2 Cloves, ground
1/2 teaspoon Garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon Ginger powder
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
1/2-3/4 teaspoon Garam Masala
1/2 teaspoon ground Black Pepper
1/2 teaspoon Coriander powder

The Stuff
4 medium sized Potatoes cut into cubes. Raw. Peel if you want.
400g each of Peas, boiled red Kidney Beans and boiled Chickpeas. Frozen versions of the first, and tinned versions of the latter two are known to turn in very good performances also.

Here is what you do:
Pray.
Pour Oil into pan.
Put pan on stove, and turn on stove.
Ok, ok, ok, cut to chase.
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1. Fry onions with mustard seed, cloves and chili seeds. Wait till mustard seeds are nice and done. Hell should have no surprises for them after this. Don't worry about the onions getting fried. We got a surprise for them further on. Bwahahahah.
2. Add tomatoes, reduce heat and let simmer till tomatos look semi-depressed with all the frying.
3. Add remaining Masalas, and give it five minutes.
4. Turn on Oven to about 200 deg celsius. Haha, threw you a curve there, huh? Boy, were the onions surprised. From the frying pan into the oven.
5. Add Stuff to pan and stir till everything is mixed well.
6. Now take this mixture and put it in a baking tray and shove it into the middle shelf of the oven.
7. Take out of oven when potatoes are done. Use fork to find out, not your middle finger. Feel free to borrow someone else's finger though.
8. Pray.
9. Eat with roti/paratha/bread/blonde. Your choice.

Remarks:
1. You can add 1/2 teaspoon Asphoetida in step 3. I forgot, but I know that the results are always deadly. I mean that in a nice way.
2. You can add Mushrooms, Corn and Green Pepper too, if you want. Though this may require some reconfiguration with the Masalas. Ask me. I accept payment through PayPal.
3. Also reduce Chili/Garam Masala/Black Pepper amounts depending on how much your tongue, body, sweat glands can tolerate.
4. Freeze toilet paper, if necessary, for the morning after.
5. In case of adverse symptoms, take two aspirins and call me in the morning. Tonight if you are a blonde.

Let me know if you ever try this.