Quick Indian meal

cheets64 · 21 Apr 2011 at 20:44

For tea I had a Balti Chicken curry and Naan

Onion and red pepper

Everything in pan and some veg

Naan warming up

Eat

That cost £2.75 to buy, local curry house for same would be about £7 with coke would have been £3.75

Craig1981 · 21 Apr 2011 at 21:04

That looks very tasty. Leave out the onions and I would love to have that

cheets64 · 21 Apr 2011 at 21:16

I need to learn how to make a real curry, still tasted great for a jar curry, the Pataks Balti was on offer at Asda for £1 normally about £1.80

Craig1981 · 21 Apr 2011 at 21:24

I love the traditional chinese curry mix. Comes in a yellow packet.

fewfe3 · 21 Apr 2011 at 23:11

does look nice. although im not a big fan of the jar curries, i know they arnt bad, but they never beat a home made one.

Really only £2.75. usually the chicken costs me more than that to buy.

NeverWinter · 21 Apr 2011 at 23:30

I'm not going to lie, it looks awful

Learn how to make one from scratch, far better than any jar sauce. Pretty sure there's a few recipes listed down in the food sub forum.,

Jolteh · 22 Apr 2011 at 06:13

Some of these threads are really odd. Why would you goto the effort of photographing and posting chronicles of your making a jar curry?

Oynas · 22 Apr 2011 at 08:18

Looks quite nice, although the thought of carrots in curry does make my stomach turn a bit.

As NeverWinter said, making one from scratch will produce better results, but sometimes there just isn't enough time for that.

Jolteh said:
Some of these threads are really odd. Why would you goto the effort of photographing and posting chronicles of your making a jar curry?

No harm in it, just a bit of fun isn't it?

WingZero30 · 22 Apr 2011 at 09:06

I am master at making south asian currys. Although currys themselves come in variety they all include various spices which I don't really see in OP pics :cool:

If it is chicken curry, this is known as 'murgh masala' or 'murgh shorba' in the indo/pak language.

Disco Boy · 22 Apr 2011 at 10:56

Jar sauces ftl.

Pataks pastes are quite good, but pre-made sauces are full of lose.

Vanquished007 · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:41

Good effort, though I personally wouldn't make a jar curry myself, I bet it was tasty.

cheets64 · 22 Apr 2011 at 14:01

Like I said it was a quick meal, Probably took 10 mins in total

The Running Man · 22 Apr 2011 at 15:11

Disco Boy said:
Jar sauces ftl.

Pataks pastes are quite good, but pre-made sauces are full of lose.

I use Geetas Jalfrezi and its actually pretty good!!

bhavv · 22 Apr 2011 at 15:39

Lloyd Grossman jar sauces are ***.

Wait, For The Win is a starry?

The Running Man · 22 Apr 2011 at 17:08

You should check the ingredients and nutritional info. There is a lot of sugars and i cant remember but maybe also lactic acid in the Lloyd Grossman stuff.

the Geetas curry sauce has at least half the amount of sugars and no lactic acid in it...and it tastes very good too.

Cybermyk · 22 Apr 2011 at 17:54

Balti really doesn't take long from scratch and it's not expensive, I've posted a recipe on OcUK for it a few times. The main cost is chicken, onions and tomatoes. The flavour comes from cumin, cardamom, chilli and garlic.

If you have them ingredients you can make it from scratch.

Mark A · 22 Apr 2011 at 18:03

Disco Boy said:
Jar sauces ftl.

Pataks pastes are quite good, but pre-made sauces are full of lose.

This 100%. Tried every jar curry that Tesco online offered and every single one was utter crap.

The Pattaks Madras paste is very nice, also the Rogan Josh paste is also very good. I usually mix half a jar of paste in with 500g of chicken, 2 tins of plum tomatoes, 1 large onion, 1 large red pepper and also add a bit of garlic.

I have also made lots of different curries from scratch and adding a bit of madras paste to the base makes them taste even better. It really is good stuff imo.

TheVoice · 22 Apr 2011 at 21:03

Jolteh said:
Some of these threads are really odd. Why would you goto the effort of photographing and posting chronicles of your making a jar curry?

Some of us (or just me) that are a bit more hopeless in the kitchen actually appreciate it, better than getting a ready meal type thing.

ThriceNightly · 8 May 2011 at 18:53

TheVoice said:
better than getting a ready meal type thing.

i would agree with this.

mangobreeder · 8 May 2011 at 21:39

cheets, ignore all the people who are having a go because its out of a jar.

they are forgetting the word

con·ven·ience
[kuhn-veen-yuhns]
–noun

anything that saves or simplifies work, adds to one's ease or comfort, etc., as an appliance, utensil, or the like.

yeah a curry made from scratch is nicer, healthier etc.etc.

but sometimes you want something quick and easy. so a Jar is appropriate. and yes i have them in my pantry too, and in my fridge i have ready made pasta sauce and packet tortellini.