I seriously have to disagree with this bloke

I have been to a number of Indian Restaurants across the UK an beyond and the Shish Mahal i must say beats the rest hands down.  Whenever i go for an eat out lunch or a main meal i go to this place and no other.  The Lamb Karahi he refers to as being bland is the best ive ever tasted and the lamb falls apart in your mouth it is so tender

Chicken pakora is also the best ive ever tasted and believe me i have tasted a lot, as for the popadoms, ah well, you pay for quality what more can i say

The Shish has not won the best Indian restaurant award for the UK no less than 3 times in a row for nothing!!!

Hi Guys,

Im just new to this site and have a couple of years experience cooking curries but my speciality is veg pakora.

I'll trade this for the best curry base recipe you can recommend on this site

2-3 Maris Piper potatos, cubed into 10mm or smaller size parbolied
1/2 Green Pepper very finely chopped
2-3 green chillis again very finely sliced seeds removed!
6 cloves garlic very finely sliced
4-5 tblspoons of corriander seed
4-5 tblspoons of cumin seed
Salt to taste, fry one first to taste and add more to get it to your preference
Freshly ground black pepper
1 tbspoon corriander powder
1 tbspoon cumin powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Juice of half a lime
Gram Flour sieved
1 tsp Garam Masala
bunch of fresh roughly chopped corriander
chilli powder - 1/2 tsp or more if you like
2 large onions chopped to suit not too fine
asofieda power 1/4 tsp
Dried methi powder/dried methi leaves - I tend to use this sometimes you can remove this if you like, also, sometimes i chuck in some finely chopped spinach which works well

Mix all of this together into a consistency with Lager, yes i know your laughing but i use Lager as a substitute to water and it really works, after all you get beer battered fish, why not pakora?  mix it well so that it drops off a spoon not too wet once you master it its shooty in

Sauce
Half an Onion
4 fresh tomatoes, skinned
chilli powder how much you like
salt not too much keep tasting to get it right
tomato ketchup
Blend all to a fine liquid, dunk and enjoy

Let me know how you get on, oh and any good curry base links would be good, cheers guys