Topic: Secret Recipe Group Test

[Kashmiri Bob]

Very interesting reviews Frank! The tandoori

[DalPuri]

I love Tamarind and have been using it for over 20 years. I use it for its sour taste. I also love Pani Puri with the tamarind water which is also sweet. But Tamarind sauce is a completely different thing and used for sweetness rather than sour. Too sickly sweet for me.

Anyone else trying this recipe is going to get the same result. These few ingredients just dont balance on their own.

I did do a search for suka/sukka to see what the origin of the recipe was and found that it comes from Mangalore and the tamarind is used to add sourness to the dish but definitely not sweetness.
Bafat masala is a key mixed powder that goes into Mangalorian dishes.
All of these regional mixed masala's is what everyone should be experimenting with to further understand spices rather than a basic mixed powder.

Here's two sukka recipes:
http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/r_disp.asp?r_id=168

http://gautham-endoftheroad.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/prawn-sukka-mangalore-style.html



Just had a couple of mouthfuls of the Bengali Mirchi and its almost there with 2 spoons of tamarina.
Either 1 tbsp or slightly rounded would be perfect. 

The hyperlink thing still isnt right. Its now showing the embedded player and not the title. Could somebody please show me the line of code so i can try and see whats wrong. Thanks.

[DalPuri]

I think as nobody really said yes or no to the rules, i should've closed the test yesterday. But seeing as it wasn't started until the 9th jan, lets give it a full month to complete. 

All in by 9th Feb.

[RubyDoo]

I think as nobody really said yes or no to the rules, i should've closed the test yesterday. But seeing as it wasn't started until the 9th jan, lets give it a full month to complete. 

All in by 9th Feb.

Must be almost there 

[DalPuri]

I think as nobody really said yes or no to the rules, i should've closed the test yesterday. But seeing as it wasn't started until the 9th jan, lets give it a full month to complete. 

All in by 9th Feb.

Must be almost there 

Still awaiting 5 to complete. 

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[curryhell]

Mine should  be done this weekend

[Micky Tikka]

Actually have done mine last week
had trouble with computer and had the Doctor round
hopefully with some help on tomorrow

[Kashmiri Bob]

I love Tamarind and have been using it for over 20 years. I use it for its sour taste. I also love Pani Puri with the tamarind water which is also sweet. But Tamarind sauce is a completely different thing and used for sweetness rather than sour. Too sickly sweet for me.

Anyone else trying this recipe is going to get the same result. These few ingredients just dont balance on their own.

I did do a search for suka/sukka to see what the origin of the recipe was and found that it comes from Mangalore and the tamarind is used to add sourness to the dish but definitely not sweetness.
Bafat masala is a key mixed powder that goes into Mangalorian dishes.
All of these regional mixed masala's is what everyone should be experimenting with to further understand spices rather than a basic mixed powder.

Here's two sukka recipes:
http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/r_disp.asp?r_id=168

http://gautham-endoftheroad.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/prawn-sukka-mangalore-style.html

Cheers Frank. I suppose, like some other BIR dishes, this one has also been adapted and changed over the years by restaurants/TAs.  King prawn suca seems to be available at other places.  For example:

http://www.maliks.co.uk/appetisers.html

http://tigergarden.co.uk/tiger-garden/takeaway.html

Still trying to imagine what 2 tbsp of tamarina will taste like. I think I may end up adding a bit of chilli powder, or possible a touch of jalpur GM, and see how that goes.  I

[Kashmiri Bob]

Madhur Jaffrey's Sweet Saffron Pilau

Frank asked me to test this traditional style pilau rice recipe, which featured in the recent

[RubyDoo]

Nice review Rob.  I don't think that amount of saffron would bother me as much as 3TBS sugar in that quantity.