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British Indian Restaurant Recipes - Main Dishes => BIR Main Dishes Chat => Topic started by: floydmeddler on February 22, 2010, 10:17 PM
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Hey folks,
My girlfriend and I discovered our love of curries at this restaurant back in 2003:
http://darbarrusholme.co.uk/index.html (http://darbarrusholme.co.uk/index.html)
We used to order the Chicken Handi (http://darbarrusholme.co.uk/menu.html#chefspecial (http://darbarrusholme.co.uk/menu.html#chefspecial)) and I've never been able to get it anywhere else. As you can see, the description is quite vague:
Fresh breast pieces of young chicken, cooked in fresh ginger garlic and coriander and served in a clay pot, in a traditional way.
I remember it had finger chilis in it for definite.
Please give me some advice as to where I can start with this. It would be amazing to cook it for her. I'm currently using the SnS base.
Many thanks in advance
From a very hopeful Floyd ;)
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Hi Floyd,
Sorry mate, never heard of Handi dishes but, I'm going down the mile Saturday night. I'll do some fishin for ya :)
Is there anything similar that you could compare it to?
Ray
P.S,
Are you a fellow manc by any chance ;D
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Floyd
I'm not sure if this will help you or not but I am looking at one of my cookery books called Shezad Husain's Easy Indian Cookery. It is said to feature Balti and Haandi Recipes with Haandi referring to the cooking pot which I can best describe as a wide urn shaped clay pot with handles on the sides.
I would guess that your chicken dish might not be cooked in such a pot but you are looking to replicate that recipe.
There are several chicken dishes in this book:
- Haandi Chicken with Pineapple Chunks
- Mughlai Haandi Chicken in a Rich Sauce
- Haandi Chicken cooked in Green Spices and Herbs
- Haandi Chicken with Leeks
- Haandi Chicken with French Beans
- Haandi Chicken with Whole Fried Onions
- Haandi Chilli Spiced Chicken
I will happily reproduce them here if you think anything sounds close.
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Hi Floyd,
Found this on the net http://www.grouprecipes.com/20241/chicken-handi.html (http://www.grouprecipes.com/20241/chicken-handi.html) I don't know if it is quite what your looking for as It doesn't seem very "BIR" to me, but it my provide you with a platform to work off.
Ray
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Interesting....it's the first time I've seen a menu refer to using "special oil" (i.e. "rogan josh - the characteristics of the dish are derived from....fried in special oil")
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Hi Floyd,
Sorry mate, never heard of Handi dishes but, I'm going down the mile Saturday night. I'll do some fishin for ya :)
Is there anything similar that you could compare it to?
Ray
P.S,
Are you a fellow manc by any chance ;D
Hey Razor. No, I studied up there but have since moved to Brighton which is my girl's hometown. If you could scope anything out, that would be great! I don't know if there is anything I could compare it to... it's been a while!
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Floyd
I'm not sure if this will help you or not but I am looking at one of my cookery books called Shezad Husain's Easy Indian Cookery. It is said to feature Balti and Haandi Recipes with Haandi referring to the cooking pot which I can best describe as a wide urn shaped clay pot with handles on the sides.
I would guess that your chicken dish might not be cooked in such a pot but you are looking to replicate that recipe.
There are several chicken dishes in this book:
- Haandi Chicken with Pineapple Chunks
- Mughlai Haandi Chicken in a Rich Sauce
- Haandi Chicken cooked in Green Spices and Herbs
- Haandi Chicken with Leeks
- Haandi Chicken with French Beans
- Haandi Chicken with Whole Fried Onions
- Haandi Chilli Spiced Chicken
I will happily reproduce them here if you think anything sounds close.
Hi, thanks for the info! I reckon the Chilli Spiced Chicken looks good. Is it similar to the description on the website?
Cheers
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Interesting....it's the first time I've seen a menu refer to using "special oil" (i.e. "rogan josh - the characteristics of the dish are derived from....fried in special oil")
CA,
When I read this from the menu, I instantly thought of you and your spiced oil ;D
I think that this confirms, that it does exist, at least in some capcity!
Ray
P.S, The music was a little bit irritating wasn't it? :(
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Haandi Chill Spiced Chicken
Ingredients
5 tbps oil
6 large green chillies, slit in the middle
4 fresh curry leaves
1/2 tsp onion seeds
2 onions, diced
2 tsp tamarind pulp
3 tsp brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp ginger pulp
1 tsp garlic pulp
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
1/2 pint water
1kg chicken
1 tbsp fresh coriander, chopped
1 tomato diced
1tbsp sesame seeds
Method
- heat oil in pan
- add chillies, fry for 1 minute then remove from pan
- add curry leaves, onion seeds, onions to pan and cook till onions are brown
- mix tamarind, sugar, spices and salt and form into a paste with half the water
- add paste to pan and cook for 2 minutes
- add chicken, stir in, add remaining water and cook for 15-20 minutes
- when chicken is cooked add the coriander, tomato and sesame seeds
Not sure if this is any use to Floyd but let me know how you get on.
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Cheers Stephen! ;)
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no worries Floyd in Brighton
Steve in Dundee
::)