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Trainee Chefs / Beginners Questions / Re: Question - home made paneer
« on: October 20, 2018, 10:56 PM »
I've just spent a couple of days experimenting with milk. I obtained nearly 10 litres of full cream milk very cheap and a couple of litres was unhomogenised (cream on top). I first made two 1 cup yoghurt starters using, separately, green chili and lemon and then a 500g and a 250g yoghurt from each. The chili starter worked better imho. These yoghurt will be even nicer next batch.  I also then made a 1 kg batch using a natural pot set yoghurt starter in the Easiyo yoghurt maker so I will now need to use up nearly 2 kg of yoghurt. Luckily, I also managed to get 5 cheap 2 kg chickens. Tandoori and Tikka on the menu this week and some into the freezer.
Ive already used some of the yoghurt as I then set about using the rest of the milk to make paneer, using  the lemon set yoghurt to induce the separation.  I fashioned a crude cheese press out of a plastic basket and a block of steel and it produced excellent results so I now have a big block of home made paneer to consume. I'm thinking Paneer Tikka, Makhani Paneer and Pilau Paneer for starters.

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Thanks guys. I didnt go back to bare metal. I just gave it a really good scrub.  I'm getting the tawa hot and use plenty of water so it must be the oil. I'll go back to basics and drop the oil. To be honest though, I really dislike baking powder in recipes. It leaves a signature taste to me. From first viewing I never understood happy chris' time frame as his recipe is a chemical reaction risen bread.

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I've recently been having some difficulty getting my naan to actually stick to the Tawa.  It is a plain steel Tawa, exactly the same as the ones shown in the Indian youtube videos and I bought it cheap from an Indian supply store.  I've been looking at the various but similar dough recipes I've been using and the thing that stands out is the inclusion of oil in the dough.  I scrubbed the Tawa clean the other day and sanded it with wet and dry paper to remove any build up of scum that may have created a non-stick surface but still had non-stick properties.
Could it be the inclusion of oil in the dough?  Many recipes use it but I notice from Garps writeup that this one doesn't.  I couldn't be bothered sditting through the video again.

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Tandoori and Tikka / Re: Chewy
« on: October 19, 2018, 05:36 AM »
Well, no Tandoor just yet. We had agreed on a price but he sold it to someone else.  Guess I haggled him down a few too many shekels.

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Tandoori and Tikka / Re: Chewy
« on: October 17, 2018, 11:17 PM »
Thanks. I read that right through and recall reading it before.  I'll try to see how GI is going with it (if he still uses it).

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Pictures of Your Curries / Re: Malabar Cod
« on: October 17, 2018, 09:39 PM »
That looks delicious. How do you think it would go with poached smoked cod?

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Solid advice. Non critical ingredient and can be from any form of coconut.

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Tandoori and Tikka / Re: Chewy
« on: October 17, 2018, 07:53 AM »
The Baby Q will get a serious workout this summer.
There is a pizza stone accessory for it but the Baby Q is a bit small.  It would only do individual pizza.
Chewy (or anybody else) I have a question. A guy not far from me is selling a Gas Tandoor for a very good price but it is not ceramic or clay lined. He says it is just Steel walled and weighs about 50 kg. It is a round keg shape on legs and has vent holes around the top rim so there must be an air gap between the inner and outer walls.  Does anybody have any experience or knowledge of this type of oven?

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Rajmah masala
« on: October 15, 2018, 02:39 AM »
This dish was included in my banquet a week ago, but not exactly the same.  Once again I hadn't cooked any red kidney beans from scratch and when I went to the pantry all I had that was even close was a tin of Four Beam Mix containing butter beans, chickpeas, red kidney beans and baby lima beans. I basically followed the exact same recipe procedure and the end result was excellent. My wife finished up the last of it with some rice and naan for lunch the other day and she said that it is even better than just using Kidney Beans. 

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British Indian Restaurant Recipe Requests / Re: Mango Chicken
« on: October 14, 2018, 11:54 PM »
Once again, thanks Chewy.  I tried Almond Powder first and then bought Almond Flour but there was really very little discernible difference. Perhaps I'm not getting the heat.  I'm happy with the overall flavours of the dish now so it is only a matter of mouth feel and texture of the gravy.  I'll be giving your suggestions a go in the near future.  I have seen almond butter and cashew butter so I may just need to obtain a couple of jars.

Phil, that's a bit mind over matter if you used to enjoy something until you knew what was in it.  Reminds me of the Sunday morning my father told me what black pudding was made from.

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