Topic: Pressure cooker-one-pot-lazy-arse base experiment

[Tomdip]

As I liked the idea of whole onions in the base - a la Chewy Tikka, and the use of the pressure cooker as mentioned by Phil and Chewy T.  I thought I would knock up a base as fast as I could - but do it all in one pan/cooking process to see who it compared with some of my faves.

I added all the usual base suspects -
3 onions (500g)
half a carrot
1 litre of water
8 tbsp oil
2 cubes of raj frozen g/g puree
1 tbsp tom puree
half tin of chopped toms
1 tsp spice mix
1 tsp salt



Bought it to a simmer, got the pressure on and gave it 30 mins then whizzed it up.



Came out pretty well on consistency, but had the taste of an onion soup as the high pressure killed all the spices and garlic/ginger flavour.

Made a nice Prawn Chasni from it to test - which went down a treat!  Not as good as when using CA's base though.



So in conclusion I would have used the pressure cooker to do the onions & any veg, but leave the spices/garlic & ginger till later in the cooking.  (or follow CTs recipe which uses a different pan).

[coogan]

bon dieu! I think you have cracked it there TT. Hats off I will definitely give that a go.