Topic: New Base Sauce

[Unclefrank]

Really made this with some left over veg etc..
(Was going to make a stock but changed my mind).
Here we go

1 chicken carcass (ASDA already cooked and stripped)
3 medium onions chopped
1 medium carrot chopped
1 medium maris piper potato peeled and chopped
1 sweet apple cored, peeled and chopped
2 green chilli

[Malc.]

Apple eh, how did it turn out?

[Unclefrank]

Turned out alot better than i expected to be honest, here's some pics.
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5667.0

[Malc.]

Was the apple noticeable in a discernible way and if so, will you use it again?

[Unclefrank]

I used a really sweet apple (Gala) it worked well with the sweetness of the onions and (to me anyway) it just added that extra little flavour that i wanted but still got the heat.
Gave this (the madras) to 5 of my friends and they all liked it saying it was very,very moreish and they dont mince there words if it was crap they would definately say, with help from my curry tasters (25 friends) i get some really interesting comments some useful some not but i always take on board what everybody says to me.

[Malc.]

You can't say boo to that, fair play to you. Incidentally, I know the IG add Lemon including the rind and pith to their base, I have you tried this and it does impart a certain sweetness. You might like to try that at some point, be careful not to add to much. I know JerryM has just done a few tests with this and was very pleased with the results.

[Unclefrank]

Yeah will do like i said its a first attempt just left-overs really so will try the lemon and a little rind, will of course take pictures and report back on here.
Doing quite a few recipes from The Balti Secrets of the Birmingham Balti Company at the moment so might be next week or so.
Cheers for the feedback Axe cheers.

[Unclefrank]

Thought i would post pic of the base.