Curry Recipes Online
Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Peripatetic Phil on August 22, 2012, 09:25 PM
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Inspired by a recent posting by Ajoy Joshi in his weblog (http://thoughtsfromajoy.wordpress.com/), I ordered some raw prawns from Ocado yesterday and today cooked Nergis's Taraporee Prawn Patio (http://thoughtsfromajoy.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/dollys-mum/) (Kolmino Patio, or "prawn patia"). And, sad to say, it was a terrible disappointment. The recipe calls for 1/2 cup brown vinegar (I used sherry vinegar) and 2 1/2 tablespoons roasted brown cumin in addition to smaller quantities of garlic, chilli, turmeric and salt. I prepared the sauce exactly to spec. (despite not having 1kg of prawns : I had 150g), then portioned the sauce pro rata once it was ready for the prawns to be added. As a change from my almost invariant pulao rice and chapati, I served the prawns with stir-fried instant noodles. And, to be brutally honest, the 15p noodles were far better than the