Wow, what a great offer, many thanks 

Thanks Santa, will do, I'm not after hot, just medium, most of the TM's I've had from T/aways/restaurants have been medium, but this one turned out very mild, even the wife wanted it hotter!! quite new to this curry making, but I'm learning and I must say how helpful everyone has been, cheers

Hi Goncalo, I used the marinade as suggested in the recipe, including 1 fresh re chilli, but only made half as I was only making 2 TM's . The chilli powder I used was sweetsmart in Bristols hot chilli powder, I do have Kashmiri but thought that might be too  mild so didn't go for that. I doubled the Tikka Masala recipe as I was making 2 servings. I left out the food colourings, but would add them next time and couldn't get hold of mango powder locally yesterday, so had to miss that out, but again I want to add next time. Would it just be a case of adding some chilli powder in the dish, i felt the coconut/almond/texture was spot on, so it's just a case of a bit more heat and colour for me

Just made this for tea and would like to do it again but I'd like to add more heat as it turned out very mild, what would you recommend please

What is the best way of cooling / chilling before freezing, I'd like to make a batch tonight, eat some then freeze the rest to try it out

Will do, thanks Phil

would Kashmiri chilli powder work ok with this, would I need to adjust ammounts

Pretty new to BIR's but made this base last weekend, after deciding not to continue with the KD base I made, and put it together with Chewys Madras, had to tone it down a bit (southern softy) and it was still hot, but it was fabulous, many thanks Chewy, gonna try a Bhuna this weekend

many thanks for the speedy replies, I'll be cooking tonight

Hi all, rather new to curry making (and this great site), and the base sauces, but decided to take the plunge and have a go at KD's original sauce and have now tried the basic curry with it and the bhuna, but both have turned out to be rather bland and really mild (not that I want a vindaloo)
I think my mistake maybe that the garam masala mix didn't call for roasting the spices first, so I didn't, I just popped them in the new shiny grinder, would like to improve it while I still have a couple of frozen base sauces before I try a different one from this site, should I disacrd the GM and make a new batch, any help greatly appreciated