Cooking a curry - how difficult is it?

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I want to try and cook a chicken curry from scratch and would really just like to know how difficult a task it is.

I don't really do much cooking using raw ingredients, but would like to start and thought I would try a curry to kick it all off.

If anyone has any good tips or recipes that would be great :D
 
Curries are really easy. Just need to get the right spices and you're away. I have a couple of good links to curry websites, will find them in my bookmarks when I get home...
 
Watch out! I'd better make sure my curry leaf plants are not on show to nosey and mischievous neighbours.

Poor Amrat Kanji, a shop owner in Bolton England, was reported to police for supposedly growing cannabis plants above his shop. When the police raided the premises all they found was Amrat Kanji's curry leaf plant (and a very nice specimen it is too - much better than my little plants).
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^^ Lmao
 
i cook curry for my mates. its as hard as you want to make it.the best tip i can give is to fry onions then add garlic then ginger. then blend them thats your curry base.choose youre spices cummin corriander ect and add them.next add your meat if you are using it.brown and leave to cook.asda do a curry base in a jar this makes your curry taste just like a take away.i find getting a curry to tast like a takeaway harder than getting it to taste like something youre mother would cook if she is asian.
 
a tip for getting all your spices is to visit an asian shop, ive found they usually have more stuff than you could possibly need and most of it in big bags at a fraction of supermarket prices for a tiny jar

i paid something like £1.50 -2.00 for a small jar of star anise at a supermarket, asian grocers sold me a huge bag full for £1

think ive got enough supllies to see me through a decade
 
Yep, I was going to invite some friends over to sample the finished article, but I get the feeling they would be expecting a takeaway style curry too.
 
it's so easy. but don't expect a takeaway style. You just can't copy the flavour. I have no idea what they do. Probably loads of artificial stuff in it.
 
one thing you can do is fry the onions garlic ginger and chosen spisces a day or two in advance and leave them in the fridge. this allows all the flavours to mix.in a resturant they have a big pot of basic curry then add whats needed to make each dish.thats why you pay more for chiefs special dishes they dont use the basic sauce and have to be made from scratch.
 
if you don't marinade the meat and it's chicken. obviusley doesn't work for marinaded currys.
Boil the chicken and just add it right at the end. Keeps it nice and moist as is far better taste/flavour wise than frying it.
 
JBuk said:
a tip for getting all your spices is to visit an asian shop, ive found they usually have more stuff than you could possibly need and most of it in big bags at a fraction of supermarket prices for a tiny jar

i paid something like £1.50 -2.00 for a small jar of star anise at a supermarket, asian grocers sold me a huge bag full for £1

think ive got enough supllies to see me through a decade
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+1 shop where the indian/pakistani folks shop for the spices, you save an absolute fortune and get exactly the right stuff you need. Get yourself a few tupperware containers to store your bulk spices in.

I made a chicken jalfrezi from the recipe below last friday night, my GF and myself thought it was superb, so much so she asked me to make another pan of it on sunday. :D

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-Jalfrezi/Detail.aspx
 
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