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Title: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Ader1 on October 20, 2005, 04:34 PM
There are so many version on here but is there a consensus on the closest to the restaurant curry base?
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Ader1 on October 20, 2005, 04:36 PM
Is the Dhillon version the closest to it?
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Curry King on October 20, 2005, 04:41 PM
Hi,

It's not so much which is closer more what you prefer, quite a few of the bases on here have actually come from chefs and they are all slightly different so theres no one correct base. ?Lately people have gone back to the Kris Dhillion base or theres any of these that are worth a try:

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=108.0

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=279

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=179.0

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4.0

Best thing to do is try as many as you can, im making the Kris Dhillion base tonight as its been well over a year since Ive tried it.

Good Luck
cK
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Ader1 on October 20, 2005, 05:03 PM
Thank you Curry King.  I will try a few of those....I have been using the Dhillon base and it's pretty good but not quite there I think.  I saw somehwere that someone added a little sugar and lemon juice to this and it was said to be even better.  I tried that and agree.  Next time, I am going to try and use a little tamarind instead to the lemon.  I notice that Patak's have a little in their Madras curry mix.  Any other ideas to tweak the Dhillon curry base?  And does anybody have any opinion on using tamarind?
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Curry King on October 20, 2005, 05:05 PM
Im not so sure about taramind but try half a green pepper, a carrot, stick of celery or even some creamed coconut.
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: George on October 20, 2005, 05:58 PM
...I have been using the Dhillon base and it's pretty good but not quite there I think. I saw somehwere that someone added a little sugar and lemon juice to this and it was said to be even better. 

But how can you know how good any DIY base sauce really is? I suggest there are only two methods of assessing it:
(a)  If you have a control sample of a genuine BIR base sauce at home, and can compare your base sauce with that, or
(b) if it results in a really good curry at the end of the day, after you've added lots more ingredients at 'stage 2'.

I made a superb base sauce from this forum, thanks to markJ., It tasted so good, you could consume it like a fine soup. But that's not the point really. It's only as good as the curries it will produce.

Regards
George
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Mark J on October 20, 2005, 06:24 PM
Guys,

Pete recently reproduced the taste with a modified version of the dhillon base, Pete do you want to copy across from the temporary forum CK setup?

cheers


mark
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Ader1 on October 21, 2005, 11:41 AM
I suppose that since Pete has now joined the ranks of those 'in the know', that he is now bound by some secrecy code....... ???
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Nessa on October 21, 2005, 12:01 PM
It's all here Ader1  http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?PHPSESSID=391535f997edd57eaf71216fba81fdde&topic=536.msg5021#msg5021 (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?PHPSESSID=391535f997edd57eaf71216fba81fdde&topic=536.msg5021#msg5021)?
 ::)
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Curry King on October 21, 2005, 01:58 PM
If Pete suddenly stops posting we will know that he must have been too close and has therefore been silenced? ?::)
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Ashes on October 21, 2005, 04:40 PM
The question is, is Pete really giving us the full recipe or just a modified version and keeping "The Taste" all to himself. I suggest someone kidnap Pete and extract the real recipe before its too late. I suggest as a form of torture to feed him Uncle Bens ready made sauces for 3 days, enough to make any sane person spill the chana dal!  ;)
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: CurryCanuck on October 22, 2005, 12:35 AM
Someone will have to curry favour with Pete  :D
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: DARTHPHALL on October 23, 2005, 08:34 AM
Nice one CC, thats enough of ya PHALL language i think i preferred you when you were ALLOO f & more refined, & Curry up about it or next time i`ll not be so SPICE about it..... :D
 ;D
Title: Re: Restaurant Style Curry base sauce
Post by: Ashes on October 23, 2005, 09:54 AM
korma guys cut out the bad puns :P