Curry

I enjoy cooking, but never could make a decent curry until I worked/lived with a young woman whose family came to the UK from Uganda, when the Indian Ugandan population were banished by Idi. We'd shop on the curry mile in Longsight, then go home and start to cook. Happy days, and I have never failed to put a decent curry together since cooking along side someone who learned from her mum. I got the confidence to experiment with various spices and ingredients, and realised cooking curry was as easy as cooking the Sunday roast - just different.

I remember making a 'proper' vindaloo - it was lovely! Pork, of course, and garlic and vinegar - sadly I have lost the recipe since...

Slough being 20 minutes away means plenty of wonderful Asian shops, so no problem with sourcing ingredients, although these days one can buy most things online.

I do actually make some curries from scratch, my "proper" vindaloo is made that way, and is sour and hot, the way it should be. (Not like some that just seem to want to blow your head off at the expense of flavour).

Sometimes we have a Friday night treat of a Morrisons brown paper bag Indian meal for two. They do various combinations, but our favourite is the one with chicken korma (mild but full of flavour, not in the least bland) with chicken jalfreizi (pretty spicy, but not tongue numbingly so) It also comes with rice, 2 onion bahjis and naan bread.

Recommend a book I have! Too tired now to go and find it! The DC love the recipes I do from it though!

Made the effort!

50 great curries of India by Camellia Panjabi

Brilliant book. The recipes are easy to follow.
My favourites

1malabar prawn curry

2parsee red chicken

3goa fish curry which I do with prawns!

how about some curry recipes! tried and tested! then ...or would they have to be on the recipe thread! Ive never made one from scratch but would love to..and if you make them often then you would use the packets up..I do like a mild curry, not a hot one...love korma/tika .

That was a very snippy post, for which I apologise! Cross with myself.

phoenix I sympathise. I was testing a Vindaloo recipe I had written for a book I have now forgotten. It smelt absolutely fabulous and Mr absent and I were positively salivating as we waited for it to be ready. We managed about two mouthfuls each – the recipe was for six servings – and the remainder had to be consigned to the rubbish bin rather than frozen for future use. I then rewrote the recipe using far few mustard seeds.

I'm sure it is, Eleothan, in fact I remember grinding my own spices etc. but for the very infrequent home made curry,(would much rather go out) a jar will do. The odd "horrible " ingredient is no worse, to my mind, than all the meat that most people add!

(Sorry, carnivores, don't like being preached at. Which is what I'm doing. Oh dear...)

Curry is so easy to make without using jars of paste (which, as some have already said, contain all sorts of horrible ingredients).

You gotta love em though Phoenix !!

Mr P once nearly killed me with a curry.

I came home to a gorgeous smell and the subtle "pop" of something gently simmering.
He had made a beef vindaloo, "yum!" thought I. However as I went to put something in the kitchen bin, I noticed an empty jar of vindaloo curry paste. One is only supposed to use a couple of dessert spoons, not a whole jar

Mr P had thought it was curry sauce not paste, and had therefore lobbed in a whole jar. We did try to tone it down by adding more tomatoes etc, but with no luck. However it did make for an amusing few minutes watching him try to eat it, before admitting defeat.

Of course the time that he first made me chilli con carne using fresh chillies is another story altogether......

The ww curry sauce isn't bad I usually make my own including my own garum but if in a hurry, I turn to ww.

Oh don't use the jars, they are expensive and full of salt and sugar. You can make an easy peasy healthy and quick sauce with a few spices and some half fat creme fraiche. Delicious.

My Hindu friend uses jars too, though she says she is glad her mother can't see her doing that! She just adds a little bit of this and that to spice them up. So I do too!

They can be a bit of fiddle to make in that it takes some preparation. I use ready curry sauces but to be honest If I have the time I can make much tastier ones myself. The jars of sauce are all too much the same format.

JO I did not but I have now , I am always more concerned about carbs , as that is what is my downfall in the quest for slimness, I believe that fat in the diet as one gets older is GOOD helps the skin .

Sugar is I think more of a killer, particulary corn syrup , as is used a lot in the U.S.

Anyway long story short it was damn nice , Tee hee !!!!!!!!!!

I do too Mishap. DD is welcome to all that long winded cooking!

The last time I had food poisoning it was due to a curry from the local pub - I have not had one there since!

When I make curry I rely on a jar of curry paste - lazy I know, but tastes good.

If it came from Fatland, did you check the nutritional info?

DD cooked us a curry last night and the house still has that gorgeous smell!

Hope that last bit came out as I meant it , what I meant was my good wishes are with you & darling Mum .

I tip my hat to you Gilly , Truth be told I am too bone idle to make them .
Although , I DO make a mean vegetable curry in the winter , does that count ??

Laugh . X to you and Mum

I adore curry Nonu . I usually make my own and freeze half so always have a lovely curry available whenever I want it. Where I live there is a street full of curry restaurants (most of them very good) and so we are quite literally spoilt for choice. My DH always checks out the hygiene ratings on the Internet before we eat out anywhere (he watched too many episodes of the food inspectors) and I was surprised to see that most of them checked out very well with either 4 or 5 stars .