CBMs BIR Style Cooking Vol 2 Question

[meggeth]

I have recently purchased both vol 1 and 2 of CBMs books, and have tried the masala naga and south indian garlic/chilli dishes - both very good.

Looking through the recipes, I see that quite a few of them specify 1 tablespoon of spice mix - I have never seen this amount before. In fact both the masala naga and south indoin G/C recipe specifies this - I thought it was a misprint and put in 1 tsp only, not tbs - still were both great.

Anyway, my question is have those who have used the recipes from this book used 1 tablespoon of spcie mix in any of these recipes - and what was the result? Not too overpowering?

Maybe I'll try it out on the next recipe.....

[natterjak]

CBM strictly observes level spoon measures. Therefore his tbs measure will be a level 15ml, others often talk of "one teaspoon full" and are then seen (in video recipes) to dig a teaspoon (or larger spoon) in like a trowel and shovel a towering spoonful of spice in.

I prefer CBM's approach.