A Sunday Curry

[paphos-mcfc]

A lot of Indian cooking now is turning to healthier options one of them being mustard oil, which I use in my madras and jalfrezi and imparts a spicy nutty taste. I use ghee sparingly in the Kitchen, but have found Vegetable ghee ( refined palm oil ) just as effective and does the same job, but the best thing is.... It's cholesterol free.

Interesting. I'll look out for that. The oil is necessary. I've heard people talk about 'fat free' Indian cooking but the it's the oil that holds the flavours.

I'd love to hear some of your recipies.........

mammutly my recipes are my livelyhood


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Gary

 

[mammutly]

Interesting. I'll look out for that. The oil is necessary. I've heard people talk about 'fat free' Indian cooking but the it's the oil that holds the flavours.

I'd love to hear some of your recipies.........

mammutly my recipes are my livelyhood


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Gary

Looks like you are good!

I've never been to Cyprus but I'm going to recommend you to my neighbours who have a house there.

I'll take you up on that PM offer please- I'll be in touch. Cheers.

 

[kp789]

Yum make us one

 

[paphos-mcfc]

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Gary

Looks like you are good!

I've never been to Cyprus but I'm going to recommend you to my neighbours who have a house there.

I'll take you up on that PM offer please- I'll be in touch. Cheers.

No probs MM, always happy to help people who share the same passion. ( and vice versa as I'm always learning )

 

[bizzbo]

I'm cooking this now:


Into a non stick pan put:


A good glug of ghee or sunflower oil

Add.....................

1 teaspoon of: ground turmeric
ground cumin
paprika
tamarind paste

half a teaspoon of salt and chilli powder

get it hot and keep stirring - the spices will burn if you get it too hot and just leave it. (and you could set the kitchen on fire)

Take it off the heat after about 2 minutes.

Chop up 3 strong onions

Put two in the oil then stir, heat and fry gently. Meanwhile put the other onion, plus 4 peeled garlic cloves some corriander stems and curry leaves (not essential) into a blender and blitz it. Then add a tin of chopped tomatoes and about a quarter pint of water. put that lot in a pan, stir it up and heat it so it's just simmering.
Your other onions should be browning nicely and it's now time to add them to the mix with the oil.

Now chicken - chopped. Put it into the pan you used for the onions and cook it for a few minutes with some black pepper and a liitle lemon juice. Then add it to the rest of the stuff with some chopped chillies ( how many is up to you) and 1.5 teaspoons of sugar.

You now want the thing to be just bubbling until the chicken is cooked (about 30 mins max) Keep stirring it now and again and add a bit more water if necessary.

Add some garam masala ( pataks balti curry paste is good for this) - about a table spoon. Turn up the heat and cook for 2 more minutes. Then take it off the heat add half a cup of nautural yoghurt or single cream and some chopped corriander leaves Heat just so it's hot and its done.

Mine is just about ready ;-)

mmmm... looks somewhat more sophisticated than my usual effort, I'll be roadtesting this one soon. lovely, clear instructions btw.

 

[terry-benchod]

I said you can use sunflower oil instead of ghee. But olive oil would give a very different taste.

You can only mess with art so much.

;-)

Olive Oil is not used in Indian cooking.

We have been using olive oil everyday for the last ten years,next your gonna tell me that lamb balti is not a genuine dish so therefore cant be classed as an Indian!

 

[idahoblues]

have lived in the states for a while now.last year a guy asked me what i missed the most about england, my first choice was the beer, followed by the curry and man city was my third. i stick by that decision today.. glory hunting yank

 

[paphos-mcfc]

Olive Oil is not used in Indian cooking.

We have been using olive oil everyday for the last ten years,next your gonna tell me that lamb balti is not a genuine dish so therefore cant be classed as an Indian!

A balti isn't Indian. (After the separation of India and Pakistan) It translates as 'Bucket" and is believed to originate from an area of Pakistan which was called Baltistan. Re-introduced in the Midlands as a Balti / Balti house where it remains today.