WOW OMG,

Made the curry base sauce a few weeks ago and froze it but dug it out tonight and then wizzed it into Chicken Bhuna Masala in about 10 minutes

F**king H*ll How nice was that…..

Highly recommended if you are a curry lover.
by Kris Dhilon

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this?

Cheers coolhandluke, thanks for the recommendation £4.49 from amazon too.

The downside is how can your saturday night possibly get better now?! Maybe you’ve peaked too early??

secret ingredient ?

gob, or jizz ?

Lol @ scardeypants.

Thanks for the headsup.

Yup great book but I find the base sauce uses a bit too much onion.

IME, use 1/2 as much of the onion garlic & ginger stuff in the curry sauce. 1st one I made tasted watery.

The one I made tonight wit 1/2 the onion garlic ginger stuff was excellent

hhhhmmm … good curry I like. Will check book out when I have time.

😀

New book is due out end of March.

D’Oh

You’ll be well practised by then though, apparently 100 new recipes full colour photos.

Got this the other week. Fookin brilliant curry.

is it a massive effort knocking up the base sauces?

No mate…. simple job made easier with a blender though.

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Yup great book but I find the base sauce uses a bit too much onion

I wouldnt be put off by too much onion IMO as Onion also helps to thicken the sauce, try whizzing the onion in a food processor firts or at least half of it.

Just made the base curry sauce from this book – all going well so far EXCEPT it seems to have made twice as much as the book suggests it'll make!!

I'm pretty sure I've followed the recipe to the letter but now I'm not so sure… Anyone else find this? ta!

Just ordered it now.
As it happens I've recently been asking around workmates for a recommended curry book.

Thanks

Anjum Anand is the bible in this house.

I've been making my own curries from scratch for ~20 years 🙂

A little secret worth knowing when you start going off-piste and experimenting with your own spice mixes, probably after a few beers, is this: if it all goes wrong, put in a dollop of honey. That will bring you back on course.

An alternative is tomato ketchup, but deploying the honey makes it looks like you know what you're doing if you have an audience.

And if it's gone really wrong, you can splosh in white wine vinegar / cider vinegar, then a dollop of honey, and call it 'sweet & sour'.

Moved away from Kris's base curry now as the smell of the boiling onions was horrendous.

Started using the Melting Base Gravy revision 3 from this web site. Much nicer.

http://indian-recipe.org/curryforum/showthread.php?t=4233

I use this recipe. Perfect every time.

http://www.natco-online.com/acatalog/Holy_Grail.html

I wouldnt bother with the secret onion paste part tho. Alot of work for not much taste IMO.

I've been using this curry cookbook for over 10 years

http://www.kazi.org/products/Encyclopedia_of_Indian_Cooking-2242-14.html

The curries taste far better than in any curry house I've ever eaten in.

Delhi Chicken curry & spiced Mango rice are two of my faves from the book

I wouldnt be put off by too much onion IMO as Onion also helps to thicken the sauce, try whizzing the onion in a food processor firts or at least half of it.

That's what the book suggests it's still too much, the indian forum up there is far better than the book.

Just bought Gordon Ramsays new book and made one from there was excellent.

if you can find a copy try 'Floyds India' by Keith Floyd. Some very good currys in there 🙂

Where does Luke live again?

Mmm food….signs off… om nom nom

Anyone tried the new curry secret book??

Apparently it's a bit shit.

I'm interested in the new base sauce recipe. original proper stinks the house out

I had a few more go's at Kris' base sauce. I find it much more pleasant using spanish onions. Got a batch on the go even as I type.

This one isnt too bad either :-

http://www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/maindish.htm

Got the new book this week and did the base a couple of evenings ago. Wife came back from the pub and said the house smelled fantastic. Resulting chicken tikka masala (3 kids under the age of 9) was bloody marvellous.

mmmmm curry. We had a lamb and potato curry tonight. was yum.

Honey????? WTF! Why not use mango chutney and keep it remotely Indian?