Topic: Undercover Curry

[Prawn Vindaloo]

Hi All,
Been cooking curry for three years or so from KD's well known book. Decent enough curry but not quite BIR in my opinion although a couple of times have been fairly close!

Hoping to get a chance to do a bit of cooking over Xmas and plan to use Dave Loyden's Undercover Curry book, couple of questions, has any one used it? and if so was it any good? Secondly there is a mass of advice and  personal recipes on here from what I am sure are very good curry heads but has anyone managed to create that BIR taste consistently at home and if so what's the secret?.

Thanks in advance for any advice and opinions.
Martin

[curryhell]

Welcome to the site Prawn Vindaloo.

Hi All,
Been cooking curry for three years or so from KD's well known book. Decent enough curry but not quite BIR in my opinion although a couple of times have been fairly close!

I think we are all close and just occasionally someone gets there ;D  But we all continue to try

Hoping to get a chance to do a bit of cooking over Xmas and plan to use Dave Loyden's Undercover Curry book, couple of questions, has any one used it? and if so was it any good?

The book has been discussed on the forum.  Have a read of this 36 page thread  :

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4776.0

Secondly there is a mass of advice and  personal recipes on here from what I am sure are very good curry heads but has anyone managed to create that BIR taste consistently at home and if so what's the secret?.
Thanks in advance for any advice and opinions.
Martin

Many have managed to achieve this, but consistency is definitely an issue.  As for the secret, we're still looking for it after 8 years but there seems to be a concensus that it isn't a secret ingredient as first thought :

[RubyDoo]

I have the book and, like Curry2 Go and others I think it is good, but not VERY good in as much as the editing leaves many unanswered questions especially around measures etc and with that particular book you will find yourself jumping around from section to section alot.  Much if not all of the info can be found on here.

My advice would be to pick one and stick to it for a few weeks . ie  C2Go, undercover or  .............. stick with Chewy, CA etc from here.  I found that I was jumping around all over the place and this in itself caused more confusion as they all do things a little differently.  I have made four different gravies now and to be honest I think they are all good and are all basically the same with just the odd tweak, omission or addition. They are what the name suggests, as base, and it is the proper cooking out of the onions that, for me anyway, is the key.