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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / blade mace
« on: March 11, 2024, 04:54 PM »
Does anyone have suggestions where I could buy blade mace, not pre ground? I'll be in the UK in May and I'd like to pick up the whole spice.

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Lets Talk Curry / Lamb Biryani
« on: February 26, 2024, 09:05 PM »
Just put nearly 1.5kg of lamb leg into a marinade to turn it into biryani tomorrow. It's going to make a massive pot, with loads of leftovers I can freeze.

It's based off this recipe, which I have made before - it makes a cracking biryani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygb9O-MDPw

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Lets Talk Curry / Cheat's bhuna
« on: January 13, 2024, 06:50 PM »
this post was motivated by my lack of spoons when I was really craving a curry.

I really wanted something but couldn't work up the energy. The thought of making a new-to-me-making-it dish gave me enough extra spoons to work out what to do.

I like the idea of bhuna but the whole cooking down the gravy felt difficult (in my spoonless state), but I remembered I had made The Curry Guy's base gravy, which is concentrated so you need to dilute it before use.

Ding ding ding! Grab the bhuna recipe from the PDF linked from here, use the CG base gravy as-is.... got a bhuna on the table about 30 minutes later, with a spare spoon to hand!

So.... if you make the Curry Guy concentrated base gravy, you've already done a lot of the work to a bhuna  :Clown:

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Lets Talk Curry / lentil curry?
« on: September 22, 2023, 04:06 PM »
My wife and son don't like tarka dal - they find it "too dry".

I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for a lentil curry that I could cook instead of tarka dal?

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Lets Talk Curry / Fantastic Biryani
« on: September 14, 2023, 02:15 PM »
It's not as fast as a BIR-yani, but it's way faster than the old fashioned way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygb9O-MDPw&ab_channel=YourFoodLab

Subtitles on, unless you understand Hindi. Took me about 1.5 hours start to finish, but that included waiting time and making the Biryani Masala. Next time I make it I'll be faster.

Makes a nice medium - hot biryani, if you want a milder one you know what to cut back on.

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / Sriracha shortage
« on: July 14, 2023, 02:34 PM »
in a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, Huy Fong FOods who make the classic green cap Sriracha sauce, sued their sole supplier for $1m claiming fraud. Said supplier, Underwood Farms, countersued for $23m saying nope.

Underwood won. Cancelled the contract with Huy Fong. Oops. Now there's a global shortage of green cap Sriracha.

Huy Fong Faffed Around, and now they are Finding Out.

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Lets Talk Curry / portions
« on: June 17, 2023, 06:44 PM »
Large batch pilau rice.

Large batch "staff curry".

Pint bags for vacuum sealer.

Freezer.

Curry any day of the week!


(Why staff curry? Because it's nice enough on its own, but I can easily morph it into other curries depending on whim.)

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / intermittently unable to log in
« on: June 11, 2023, 08:34 PM »
keep getting password error, ask for password reset, nothing happens, suddenly 2 weeks later able to log in again with the same password. Getting kind of annoying.

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Lets Talk Curry / Weekend menu
« on: June 29, 2022, 03:57 AM »
decided to push the boat out this past weekend, to test my BIR cooking ability.

Fried paneer korma, keema pasanda, keema dansak, tarka dal, pilau rice, gulab jamun, masala chai.

I cocked up the gulab jamun - badly burned, to my shame - but everything else delivered. Delicious curries, and lots of left overs for me to indulge in for lunches. I also used what was left of the keema (actually, brisket cooked like it was pre-cooked lamb) to make an impromptu balti.

All in all, quite happy with the results. I just need to free some space in my freezer, or eat more curry leftovers  :smiling eyes:

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Biriani Dishes / Finally - a BIRyani I am happy with
« on: May 05, 2022, 01:58 AM »
I've been trying to crack BIRyani for a long time now. I have tried recipes posted here, as well as other places, as well as from books. None of them have satisfied me.

As I was making a fresh batch of garam masala, I had a look at Kris Dhillon's biryani recipe and thought I'd give it a go.

I chopped up half a red onion and let it slowly cook down to a jammy consistency while the pilau rice cooked. I heated up a batch of The Curry Guy's base gravy with some garam masala, salt, and a little cayenne pepper.
 
I chopped up half a rotisserie chicken breast and put the pieces on top of the jammy onions. Pilau rice on top. Heat off, lid up, let it all steam for a couple of minutes. Fold the chicken and onion through the rice, top with some fried raisins, serve and spoon a little of the gravy on top.

Oh yeah, that's what I was looking for. A nice BIRyani. What I was looking for!

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