Topic: And tonight's supper was ...

[Malc.]

What cut of lamb are you using Phil? Have you tried rump? 

[Peripatetic Phil]

What cut of lamb are you using Phil? Have you tried rump? 

Didn't notice, Malc.  It was being remaindered in Waitrose so I just grabbed it and ran.  The packaging has just gone in the bin, so I can't check that either.  Just found it : diced shoulder.

** Phil.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Chicken Madras with frozen paratha (still have no Basmati rice).

2 Waitrose Leckford free-range chicken breasts, home-frozen
Between 3/4 pint and 1 pint base (from curry)
Kashmiri masala
3 x teaspoons Bolst's Curry Powder (Hot)
2 x teaspoons Kashmiri mirch
1 x teaspoon ground cumin
1 x teaspoon ground turmeric
1 x teaspoon sea salt
1/2 x teaspoon ground methi
1/8 x teaspoon amchur
1 x squeeze tomato puree, then diluted 1:2 with boiling water
g/g paste
1/2 green chilli, finely sliced
lots of oil (organic rapeseed).

Rubbed the Kashmiri masala all over both breasts, put them in a sealable plastic container then warned them for 2 x 20 minutes at 10% microwave power to defrost.

Put some oil, g/g paste, 1 x tablespoon Kashmiri masala into the wok and gently bhooned.  Added chicken breasts (cut into 2 x 5), turned well, added a little base, turned thoroughly, then covered and left to gently cook for a few minutes.  Retrieved the chicken and covered with the liquid in which it had been cooked to keep it warm and moist.

Put lots of oil in the wok, 1 x teaspoon g/g paste, all the spices, bhooned well, added diluted tomato puree, cooked until starting to thicken, added about a ladle of base, cooked until starting to thicken, added the chicken, stirred well to coat, cooked for a bit, added more base, cooked for a bit, added remainder of base, cooked until chicken nearly ready, removed chicken and placed under foil to keep warm and moist, added coriander stalks and sliced green chilli, then cooked under glass until the oil had come out.  Poured back over the chicken, garnished with chopped coriander leaves and served with paratha and red onion salad.

Dessert (which I'm still eating) is about 1/3L Lidl Greek-style "Eridanous" yoghurt mixed with Camp coffee.

** Phil.

[RubyDoo]

Mmmmm. 

No. MMMmMmmmMMmmmmmm even. 

99 / 100.    Would have been 100 had you defrosted the frozen paratha. 

[Peripatetic Phil]

Mmmmm. 

No. MMMmMmmmMMmmmmmm even. 

99 / 100.    Would have been 100 had you defrosted the frozen paratha. 

I think you and I must share the same sense of humour, RubyDoo : UMSL (Bowdlerised so as not to offend).