Making a Curry...

I generally like to add in eggplant, zucchini (courgette), mushrooms, and some chopped up potato (fried a little if you like to keep it from absorbing too much flavour and sauce - especially for the spicy dish).

If you want to do a dry-ish dish, you can have chopped spinach and lentils in there (preferably dried ones which have soaked for 24hrs beforehand, or tinned ones at a pinch).

Some nice Indian lager too.... make it a good night all round.

As for rice, I generally budget for 1/2 a cup/person as stated above by someone else,

Pax
 
I always make far too much rice, as I always forget how much it expands during cooking.

so I only use about 60 g per person these days. always seems plenty
 
I was under strict orders to buy the paste and would have been killed otherwise.

My friend even went to the extent of getting her colleague on the phone to tell me where to find the paste in Tesco :eek:.

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Should taste good (i hope...)

I wanna be like Floyd so am going to drink all the wine whilst cooking!
 
good to see cobras, go well with curry. Personally I find wine and curry don't go, as the curry tends to destroy the taste of the wine, unless you pick a wine with a strong flavour itself
 
The curry and wine are not to be had at the same time.

The wine is to be enjoyed prior to the feasting! :D

All that lot was under £20 too.

The food came to about £11! Wine £4 and Cobras £5.
 
Basically it should tell you on the jar but:

Fry onions, garlic in oil. (only if they are not in the paste)

Now you can either do the following:
Fry the chicken now with the onions OR cover them in masala powder and oil and bake it in the oven and add later.

When the onions are soft add the paste and stir it into the onion/garlic mix. Then keep stirring that for a bit, then add the tins of tomatoes and maybe one of puree as well.

Then basically let that stand for a bit then add chicken when it is cooked if you decided to bake it.

Let it simmer for around an hour or so and it should be good, maybe put in half of the yoghurt at the end.


Rice:

75g per person, wash basmati first.


For the yoghurt & cucumber:


Dice the cucumber, chop some mint, bung in the yoghurt, mix it up - instant taksiki or however it is spelt.
 
I want to buy curry paste but I never know where to find it, so I always end up buying the jars! I always drink beer with Curry. when I say beer, I mean the likes of Stella, but I'm not too fussy once it's not Bud (it leaves a horrible taste in my mouth)
 
tenchi-fan said:
I want to buy curry paste but I never know where to find it, so I always end up buying the jars! I always drink beer with Curry. when I say beer, I mean the likes of Stella, but I'm not too fussy once it's not Bud (it leaves a horrible taste in my mouth)
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A paste is dead easy to make, you can find loads of recipes dependant on the curry but its usually just mix the ground spices following to taste add water until its sort of like tile grout:

Garam Masala
Turmeric
Cumin
Chilli

Chuck that in to your pan with the onions & garlic.
 
Hi guys. Just wanna say thanks.

It was bloomin' DELICIOUS!

Even my mate who eats lots of currys said it was great!

The parents are demanding I make them some soon, lol.
 
I'd love to have a crack at cooking a curry. Once day I'll get the time to sit down and learn how to do it, but until then the local indian will continue to get a visit each month :D
 
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