Topic: Quick 'n Easy Dansak

[bighairybloke]

Fancied a change last night, so did Vindaloo and Dansak! 

Firstly i made up a Dansak paste-

I boiled up for 45mins a cup of red split lentils and mixed in a tin(500g) of pinaple chunks in juice and 2 tbs of sugar and let it boil a little longer until it was reduced to a loose paste kind of consistancy.  There was far too much dansak paste, so i froze two thirds of it.

Made my usual BIR style basic curry with moderate spices, and then halfed it into 2 pans.  Half went into the vindaloo pan and half into the dansak paste.

I added some butter to the dansak pan and fenugreek, extra garlic and chillies to the vindaloo.

I was amazed how simple it was and very pleased with the result of both!

So it just goes to show how easy it is to knock up very different curries from a basic base.

Steve