Quote from: meggeth on January 30, 2013, 08:47 PM
What's your curry cooking MO?
0) No music (this is normal, not just for cooking curries)
1) Decide between rice and paratha; if rice, start washing
2) Get down jars of spices : Curry Powder, Kashmiri and/or Deggi Mirch, Cumin, Fenugreek, Coriander, Chat Masala, ...
3) Top oven on to 80
oC, plate in.
4) Dilute tomato puree
5) Rice washed, drained, dried, spiced, into microwave for final 12 minutes plus resting time.
6) Fan on, over-hob lights on
7) Base sauce to warm
8] Wok on, plenty of oil
9) Garlic and ginger in, cook, add diluted tomato puree
10) Spices in
11) If chicken raw, in now, otherwise after first ladle of base
12) One ladle of base
13) See above
14) More base
15) Rest of base
16) "Cook until the oil comes out"
17) If paratha, add ghee to clean pan and cook
18) Serve
19) Eat
20) Enjoy.
** Phil.
P.S. No apron (ever); occasional swigs of cloudy lemondade (Waitrose, fully leaded) or Rubicon (Mango, Lichee, Guava).