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Curry Base Recipes => Curry Base Chat => Topic started by: Tomdip on July 19, 2011, 09:49 PM

Title: Pressure cooker-one-pot-lazy-arse base experiment
Post by: Tomdip on July 19, 2011, 09:49 PM

As I liked the idea of whole onions in the base - a la Chewy Tikka, and the use of the pressure cooker as mentioned by Phil and Chewy T.  I thought I would knock up a base as fast as I could - but do it all in one pan/cooking process to see who it compared with some of my faves.

I added all the usual base suspects -
3 onions (500g)
half a carrot
1 litre of water
8 tbsp oil
2 cubes of raj frozen g/g puree
1 tbsp tom puree
half tin of chopped toms
1 tsp spice mix
1 tsp salt

(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3237/imagedrqg.jpg)

Bought it to a simmer, got the pressure on and gave it 30 mins then whizzed it up.

(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2730/imagerubg.jpg)

Came out pretty well on consistency, but had the taste of an onion soup as the high pressure killed all the spices and garlic/ginger flavour.

Made a nice Prawn Chasni from it to test - which went down a treat!  Not as good as when using CA's base though.

(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1189/imageppb.jpg)

So in conclusion I would have used the pressure cooker to do the onions & any veg, but leave the spices/garlic & ginger till later in the cooking.  (or follow CTs recipe which uses a different pan).

Title: Re: Pressure cooker-one-pot-lazy-arse base experiment
Post by: coogan on July 19, 2011, 10:58 PM

bon dieu! I think you have cracked it there TT. Hats off I will definitely give that a go.