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Title: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: petespot on January 31, 2016, 10:14 PM

 I am having a curry night for 8 people, with my new found skills from this wonderful website I feel confident enough for this. Has anybody done this before ? I do not want to cook everyone's meal to order, I am thinking along the lines of just putting everything out. I am not averse to buying a few items i.e. poppadums and naan bread but I want to make all the rest. So far I am thinking of poppadums onion bhaji maybe mulligatawny soup ? pilau rice, aloo gobi and chicken madras. This is still in the planning stages at the moment, I am planning on prepping most of the dishes beforehand. What would be your perfect combination of dishes for this ?

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: meggeth on February 01, 2016, 11:35 AM

Hi Pete.  Why not ask your guests beforehand whether they like mild or hotter curries? If no one likes hot, then you'll need to keep them mild/medium. I would say 3 curries between 8 would be fine, each a good double portion, and maybe a side dish . I just made curry for 8 on Saturday and did this. If one or two don't mind a bit of heat, add a hot dish to your selection. Tarka dhal as a side always goes down well - when I did this I made it the night before then re-heated on the day so I didn't have too many things to do! 

There's some good hints on making multiple curries here -

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,11656.msg90976.html#msg90976

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: curryhell on February 01, 2016, 05:30 PM

Sound words of advice there meggeth, particularly

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I made it the night before then re-heated on the day so I didn't have too many things to do! 

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: Madrasandy on February 01, 2016, 07:03 PM

Careful planning, good organisation and get everything prepped.

Know what your doing and when it needs doing.

Silver foil take away containers are good for keeping already cooked curries warm in a low oven.

And lay off the booze !!!  ;D

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: fried on February 01, 2016, 07:20 PM

You were doing well until the last point ;)

I'd cook 4 double portions of curry, or better still work on your technique and do 8 single portions of 4 different curries. Work on a planning for the week, get your chicken tikka marinading on Wednesday, cooked on Thursday. Dhal cooked in advance.

I've cooked many times for 8 or more and I prefer to have nothing to do on curry night...except frying poppadums, chopping onions, making onion bhajis, cooking bread, hoovering, buying booze....

I'd ideally get all the curry cooking finished the day before, sometimes I do half one night, half the next.

Make 4 curries that look and taste different. In my experience people claim not to like it too hot, but then leave all the creamy sweet dishes and scoff the spicy stuff.

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: petespot on February 01, 2016, 10:24 PM

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I will try and get some piccies up when I do it !

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: mickdabass on February 02, 2016, 07:41 AM

I made a bulk curry for 10 for new years eve.

Cooked it the day before.

 I  made a nice mild lamb bhuna and simply fried a couple of dozen finger chillies and chucked them in at the end, and simply advised people that if they dont like it too spicy, then dont eat the chillis!

Simples

Worked for me anyway

Regards

Mick

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: TonyB73 on February 04, 2016, 07:57 PM

Hi, doing a similar thing sat 14th Feb......hadn't even considered doing all the cooking beforehand so if cooked the day before would you just warm back up in the pan or in the oven?

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: mickdabass on February 04, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oven Tony. I cooked the rice the night before and reheated that in the oven too

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: TonyB73 on February 04, 2016, 09:49 PM

Thanks, now got to re plan, at least saturday night won't be as manic.....lol!!

Title: Re: Curry night for 8 people ?
Post by: mickdabass on February 04, 2016, 10:02 PM

Give yourself a chance to enjoy your own hard work  8) 8)