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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Secret Santa on March 06, 2015, 02:33 PM
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Having only had a Korma once in my BIR career, and that being decades ago, I thought it only fair to give a recipe a go to see if I was being unduly critical of it, given its unquestionable popularity in BIRs.
I had no recipe as it's the easiest curry in the world to make but included base sauce, sugar, coconut block, almond meal and cream. I deliberately held back on the sugar, making it sweet but not nauseatingly so as I taste tested while cooking. No pic as it just looks like every other generic Korma, i.e. like someone emptied the contents of their baby's nappy onto the rice.
Verdict - well, it started off bearable enough but after the third or fourth mouthful I was almost starting to heave. Despite deliberately curtailing the sugar content to well below that of a normal korma it was just too sickening for me, perhaps due to the added cream content.
So it's still a big, fat, no way would I ever eat this again for me. And, to add insult to injury, I had no almond meal but did have almonds so I ground a few in my favourite grinder which had a slight crack in the plastic cup and the damned almonds widened the crack and blew out a small piece of the plastic.
Korma killed my grinder! >:(
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I had no recipe as it's the easiest curry in the world to make but included base sauce, sugar, coconut block, almond meal and cream.
I'm sorry to hear of your failure to prepare an enjoyable dish. But doesn't it suggest it might not be quite as easy as you expected?
Your mention of the term 'almond meal' suggests you may have made some use of a recipe by CA. If so, what do you expect?!
Excessive cream would make a korma unpalatable for many people, so perhaps that's where you went wrong. My recipe on this forum, based on Ghanna's comments, doesn't even use cream, but relies on evaporated milk instead. This tinned product has an interesting flavour and is nowhere near as rich as cream. I doubt if you'll ever make korma again but, if you do, try adding milk or cream to taste.
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I would suggest that Madras is by far the easiest curry to perfect :)
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Well heres proof from a health visitor....3rd post down
www.madeformums.com (http://www.madeformums.com/forum/my-baby-was-born-in-oct-09/chicken-korma-poo-on-aptimil/94383.html)
I'm glad prospective curry cooks don't go there first instead of coming straight here. ;)
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I'm sorry to hear of your failure to prepare an enjoyable dish.
Au contraire George. I succeeded in preparing an unpalatable dish.
But doesn't it suggest it might not be quite as easy as you expected?
Contrary to Garp's and your suggestion there simply is no dish easier to make than Korma. You slop everything in, order is irrelevant, and cook it for a bit. There really is no technique to this one.
Your mention of the term 'almond meal' suggests you may have made some use of a recipe by CA. If so, what do you expect?!
I did peruse CA's version and Ghannas, but I have to say that CA's version is as close to several BIR versions as you can get. I didn't follow it but the Korma ingredients are petty standard so there would have to be a strong similarity.
Excessive cream would make a korma unpalatable for many people, so perhaps that's where you went wrong. My recipe on this forum, based on Ghanna's comments, doesn't even use cream, but relies on evaporated milk instead. This tinned product has an interesting flavour and is nowhere near as rich as cream.
The only Korma I'd tried before this one, being a BIR Korma, did indeed noticeably contain evaporated milk and that was one more factor in my dislike of it as it has a weird taste to me. I used approximately as much cream as I've seen BIRs squirt from the cartons they use, so I don't think i overdid it. And, anyway, I love cream!
There's no way of sugar coating it George, it's puke on a plate and only sugar fiends and the Scots could disagree! ;D
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I would suggest that Madras is by far the easiest curry to perfect :)
Dear boy, if you think that then this forum has taught you nothing...but I suspect you're actually being sarcastic. ;)
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Well here's proof from a health visitor....
Yes, I see what you mean ...
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q5pEDe9AbZE/VPnq9_rVm2I/AAAAAAAACDQ/9-Xy1PyCrCw/s428/thumb_600.jpg) (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_TDcVluAw7A/VPnqzh06ZwI/AAAAAAAACC0/1DTe1LQpBCQ/s424/babypoop3.jpg)
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Well here's proof from a health visitor....
Yes, I see what you mean ...
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q5pEDe9AbZE/VPnq9_rVm2I/AAAAAAAACDQ/9-Xy1PyCrCw/s428/thumb_600.jpg) (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_TDcVluAw7A/VPnqzh06ZwI/AAAAAAAACC0/1DTe1LQpBCQ/s424/babypoop3.jpg)
And given the choice I'd probably opt for the one on the right! ;D
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There's no way of sugar coating it George, it's puke on a plate and only sugar fiends and the Scots could disagree! ;D
Your version maybe, but that surely doesn't apply to the majority of BIR or supermarket kormas, or the dish would not be as popular as it undoubtedly is.
As for other comparisons, if korma is compared to babies then I suggest that Madras's and quite a few other curries are not unlike adults. It's an absurd comparison.
As I've suggested before, this forum clearly dislikes kormas, and siezes any opportunity to make rude comments about the dish, almost certainly alienating dozens of potential members, as a result.
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There's no way of sugar coating it George, it's puke on a plate and only sugar fiends and the Scots could disagree! ;D
Hmm, maybe you should ask to borrow Phil's UKIP Manifesto, or, preferably, just (moderated)!!!!
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Hmm, maybe you should ask to borrow Phil's UKIP Manifesto, or, preferably, just (moderated)!!!!
My, my, we are in a feisty mood today aren't we Garp. ;D
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As I've suggested before, this forum clearly dislikes kormas, and siezes any opportunity to make rude comments about the dish, almost certainly alienating dozens of potential members, as a result.
Well I quite often look at whos doing what online as I sometimes like to pick a random subject I've missed that looks interesting and as 'potential members' would be Guests, I don't see many looking at Korma related articles or articles having a 'poke' at them. Try it for yourself George, they're looking at lots of other things. Here's around 1800 of what the last Guest (possible potential members) visits were doing.
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?action=who (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?action=who)
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There's no way of sugar coating it George, it's puke on a plate and only sugar fiends and the Scots could disagree! ;D
Your version maybe
Unless the several versions I've watched made on youtube by actual BIR chefs are in some way atypical of the BIR Korma then for all intents and purposes my version is the BIR version, as it followed them quite closely. Your assertion that it is my version that is the problem is false, it's the dish itself.
As for other comparisons, if korma is compared to babies then I suggest that Madras's and quite a few other curries are not unlike adults. It's an absurd comparison.
The comparison is with a baby's nappy contents George not the baby itself. Do keep up.
As I've suggested before, this forum clearly dislikes kormas, and siezes any opportunity to make rude comments about the dish, almost certainly alienating dozens of potential members, as a result.
What I posted was a critique of the korma as it presents itself to my tastebuds. I openly acknowledged that the Korma is very popular. You seem to be taking my critique of the korma as some sort of swipe at yourself. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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A bit harsh there Garp, I'm sure you could have put it a bit more tactful. like "Go fourth and multiply" ;)
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Or fifth :)
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I cook lush old school Kormas, Malayan, Pasanda, Badami, Nawabi, Mango, etc.. etc
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It's true when I do a curry party
I cook hot one a medium one and a korma or CTM
And the kids will demolish the CTM
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Hi
I have a channel on youtube....(remainder of post and youtube link moderated out)
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Got quite a few recipes on there now, Bhuna, Vindaloo, Madras, ...
Yes, Curryhell's Madras. You're a rip-off merchant, Al -- take your stolen ideas somewhere else : they're not welcome here.
Al's picture of "his" Madras (scroll down) : https://twitter.com/aconst8251 (https://twitter.com/aconst8251)
Curryhell's original : http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,7563.msg75021.html#msg75021 (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,7563.msg75021.html#msg75021)
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Yup, definitely Curryhell's Madras, Sorry Al, but make like a carpet, and beat it. ;D