A Question For Curry Experts (home made type)

[raleighnut]

dunno .... I work for several Indian and Pakistani clients and they always give me a snack/meal when I work for them ... none of the curries which I have had are hot hot .... but what I can say is that this is not the type of curry that you get from your local take away .... many of my clients are vegetarian

very tasty and spicy (but with the correct amount of spice/kick) .... I recently had a curry made of cauliflower .... amazing

I could easily give up meat and become a vegan if I could cook this way

I enjoy a hot curry but taste a medium curry made from a pro and you will realize that there's a lot more to a good curry than heat

Possibly Aloo Gobi, this is a good recipe (well it's the one I use)

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...-curry&usg=AFQjCNFTDejSNE3NWHQa0yMZavb53mY87g

 

[Electric_Andy]

I always make a vegetable base for my curries. You can then defrost them and add more spices/cream/almond/tomato paste or whatever you want.

OP not sure if you've served up already, but I would have made a normal batch of base sauce, then divided off his portion into a bowl and added extra chilli. Then whack them both in the freezer (carefully labelling the hot one of course). When it comes to serving up, just make each person's curry as they would in a takeaway kitchen i.e. base sauce for the mild ones and add meat/cream.whatever you want. Then base sauce and other crispy veg for the mild vegetarian. Then "his" ultra hot base sauce, fresh veg and maybe some fresh chopped chillis on top or on the table.

 

[Sbudge]

Me and the wife were out with her sister and the brother in law for a curry years back.

I ordered a Ceylon I think and we were all happily eating when the BIL asked for a taste of mine. He had a spoonful, went white as a sheet then bright red and ran off to the toilets.

I honestly thought he was going to take a turn for the worse!, came back 5 minutes later sweating.

Not learning his lesson a few years back we were having a party and sipping the chilli vodka (it had quite kick to it), he had a shot and instantly ran off to the toilet again, instant reaction!.

Chilli vodka is so easy to do if you have the patience. Bottle of vodka, one clean, fresh ghost chilli. Pop it in, shake once, leave for 12 months (giving the bottle a gentle shake once a month). That's it.

 

[keithmac]

Might have a go at making a chilli vodka could be new years tipple!

Got my kilo of Chipotles to keep me going, nice and smokey.

 

[Sbudge]

Might have a go at making a chilli vodka could be new years tipple!

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Got my kilo of Chipotles to keep me going, nice and smokey.

Making sauce...

 

[Markymark]

dunno .... I work for several Indian and Pakistani clients and they always give me a snack/meal when I work for them ... none of the curries which I have had are hot hot .... but what I can say is that this is not the type of curry that you get from your local take away .... many of my clients are vegetarian

very tasty and spicy (but with the correct amount of spice/kick) .... I recently had a curry made of cauliflower .... amazing

I could easily give up meat and become a vegan if I could cook this way

I enjoy a hot curry but taste a medium curry made from a pro and you will realize that there's a lot more to a good curry than heat

Indeed. I sometimes find that excessive heat is added to hide a bland taste.

 

[Markymark]

I can recommend the vegetarian India restaurants on Drummond Street - particularly the Diwana Bel Poori.

I once went into one there for lunch, a buffet style. I then realised it was all veggie once I'd sat down and ordered a drink. I was pretty annoyed with myself for not noticing. One of the best curries I had once I got over myself.

 

[keithmac]

I need to have a browse round this place, my workmate swears by them, he makes a massive pot of curry and freezes it into portions.

 

[dim]

speaking of which ....

In South Africa, a popular meal for students is a Bunny Chow:

half a loaf of white crusty bread, hollowed out and filled with a curry of your choice, then the removed bread is added as a 'lid'....

cheap (if I had to convert to UK money in todays exchange rate, it's approx £3 ....

filling and tasty.... normally, it's eaten with a pint of ice cold beer, or with a pint of milk

have not seen these here in the UK, but it's a really good cheap meal

I travel often to Greece .... I have yet to see a curry take away restaurant in Athens .... My place is close to the University, and maybe a curry take away will be a good business

 

[Reynard]

Cripes, I don't think I could eat half a loaf of bread on its own, never mind filled with curry...

Mind, leftover curry does make a good pie filling though

 

[DanZac]

sauce

Care to share the recipie there @Sbudge, im interested in what the carrots are for (or I think thats what the bag says looking from my phone).
I always end up with more chillis than I know what to do with out the greenhouse so im always on the lookout for new recipies.

 

[PK99]

A mate went over to India for a month or more with work.

He ate the local food and said the curry's were excellent as well, nothing like we have over here.

Would love to try a "real" Indian just to see what they're like.

D2's friends family are east African Asian - more Indian than Indians! - their food is fantastic. The nearest restaurant dish to their home made is Dal Makhini at Dishoom. Covent garden, nothing else I have ever had in a English Indian comes close

 

[PK99]

To be honest, I like my curries no more than medium. I like a certain amount of heat, but definitely not to the detriment of flavour. And imho food from the subcontinent is all about some truly fantastic flavours.

Great recommendation from a Thai cook, that would equally well apply to Indian food, was that Thais like their food ferociously hot, but when copying recipes do not copy the amount of chilli simply use that amount that to you is ferociously hot.

 

[ColinJ]

Cripes, I don't think I could eat half a loaf of bread on its own, never mind filled with curry...

I gave up buying bread because I was eating the WHOLE loaf, a 200g block of cheese, and half a jar of pickle in one sitting! (I went from 10 stone 10 pounds to over 16 stone in less than 3 years.)

 

[Reynard]

I gave up buying bread because I was eating the WHOLE loaf, a 200g block of cheese, and half a jar of pickle in one sitting! (I went from 10 stone 10 pounds to over 16 stone in less than 3 years.)

I bake my own, usually at least 30% wholegrain, so two generous slices is plenty enough.