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Lets Talk Curry / Re: French Indian Restaurant Currys
« on: August 01, 2014, 07:12 PM »
Lived in Spain fo about 6 years and never found anywhere that madea a decent curry. That's what sparked my obsession with "make your own". Chinese on other hand, brilliant there- one restaurant that we'd not been to in about a year still remembered all the kids names and the food was "diffferent" to UK Chinese but in a nice way!

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Agree with just about everything suggested here. Not made a chilli for a while for some reason, but I use pretty much the same recipe, with the addition of a little bit of star anise and using good quality, dark chocolate rather than cocoa powder - must be at least 80% cocoa though (preferably more)

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: which cut of lamb?
« on: March 07, 2014, 04:53 PM »
Oh, so loving this! The Muslin cloth thing defintely sounds right, but I think temperature is more to do with it. A Tandooor is definetley going to be better, but home cooking will certainly be affected by (lack of) heat.

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: SHATKORA RECIPE
« on: March 07, 2014, 11:11 AM »
Was lovely Adey. Would maybe make a few changes next time, but that's just personal taste - was a fantastic introduction to an ingredient I've seen before but not thought about. Thankyou.

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: which cut of lamb?
« on: March 07, 2014, 11:07 AM »
Yep, fully agree. That fat might not be appreciated by the "health police" but it really makes a massive difference. The skewer helps things too, even if you are just using a domestic oven or grill as it helps cook from the inside as well as the outside.

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: korma for 35
« on: March 06, 2014, 08:37 AM »
I agree. Korma for that number should be fine in bulk to a certain extent. Might not be perfect but I reckon you'd get away with it.

My introduction to BIR was 5 or 6 years ago with the ebook by David Smith, Curryhouse. All very simple stuff, but a great starting point to help get your head round the basics before moving on to experimenting more.

One of the things he stresses is that the recipes are designed to serve 2-3 people and that they can safely be doubled but no more than that.

I thought "what a load of nonsense" and stupidly quadrupled what was a perfect recipe with disastrous results. It makes no real sense as logic tells you 4 times the people = 4 times the ingredients, but although that may work with a Sunday roast, it certainly doesn't with curry!

Good luck with your Korma ... don't beat yourself up too much at the fact you're limited to Korma. Certainly not something I'd normally choose, but it can be really nice :)

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: SHATKORA RECIPE
« on: March 06, 2014, 08:28 AM »
Hehehe ... just been to local international supermarket. Very handy as it's at the end of the street, but not as simple as it sounds - it's truly international. They claim the staff speak 7 languages between them!

Never bought Shatkora before, but found something that looked vaguely right. To be on the safe side, I made the mistake of asking what it was. No-one at all had ever even heard of it! Luckily an Asian couple were earwigging as they shopped and managed to confirm that what I was holding, was indeed Shatkora!

Looking forward to tonight ... sounds delicious :)

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Cheap Crab
« on: March 05, 2014, 07:51 PM »
Thanks Phil. Your answer has confirmed what I already thought ... far too good to waste by tampering with it.
It's so cheap that it would be rude to refuse, but I think just buy and eat!

Not a big fish fan really, but by co-incidence, got the chance of cheap monkfish as well - that does curry well :)

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: SHATKORA RECIPE
« on: March 05, 2014, 07:45 PM »
Oh dear - you're giving me ideas now! Already committed to boring food for tonight, but tomorrow is a whole new day! Thanks Adey!!

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Curried Away, Alternative Base
« on: March 05, 2014, 07:41 PM »
This just sums up what I love about "curry cooking". Whether professionally or for personal use it really must be the the most flexible way of cooking where experimentation is welcome with absolutely no rules :)

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