Topic: Bruce Edwards sauce-is ladeling oil off at end & replacing REALLY needed?

[TRAVELMAN]

Guys-just printed the bruce edwards stuff-GREAT! Can't wait to try it! One question....do you REALLY have to ladle of the oil & ghee at the end & replace with fresh? Surely the oil will have taken on a great colour/flavour?

Also...the tomoato tarka-is it really worth doing? Seems a lot of work for not much flavour!

(also posted on sauce section-hope ok!)

Thanks! Chris

[vin daloo]

ive always skimmed oil off but dont replce it with fresh no way, use the same stuff.  id advise  do the tarka thing too.

[TRAVELMAN]

  (sorry guys-same question also in a different thread-hope ok as keen to try & make this soon!)Thanks for the replies! Sorry...being a but thick here! The way i read it you take out (ladle) the oil & ADD fresh oil/ghee (the same amount)-this to me seems daft or am i mis-reading it/missing something??!

Chris

[Mark J]

Reuse the oil and do the tarka stage is my advice!

[TRAVELMAN]

oK....sorry-am really DUMB today! Get the fact that the oil can be re-used & to do the tarka...its the 'replace the vegetable oil & ghee with fresh' that I don't get! Does this mean adding fresh oil/ghee to the completed sauce (which seems illogical to me) ??

The way it reads is that you ladle out the oil & then add fresh oil back in to the sauce...this seems odd?

[parker21]

hi travelman
you seem to be getting mixed up. you 1st remove the oil so as to blend the veggies you see if you left the oil in it would be blended into the sauce then you would have to top up with water and put it back on the heat to simmer so the oil would rise again. you then replace the removed oil back in the pan. if you have ever been in a kitchen of an indian restaurant you would see a big pot of gravy sitting on the cooker with a layer of oil on top. some remove it to another pot which then reused to cook the final curries in. some scoop the oil straight from the top of the pot it varies from place to place
if you follow the methods of bruce to cook your curries in the future you will not be disapppointed 1 exception is for the first ladle evaporate it off with the spices but 1st ensure that the spices are cooked first. a good tip is to take in the methods that are used in the demos..... life is so simple when they know how ;D

hope this clears up you quandry fellow curry addict( not yet you soon will be)

regards
gary

[TRAVELMAN]

D'OH......got it now! 'Replace the ghee & oil you removed'....don't know where I got the idea that I had to replace it with fresh! Thanks all! Will try & make soon (time allowing) & report back!

Chris

[TRAVELMAN]

 :)Ok...re-read it now & see you put oil BACK in curry after it's been blended THEN do tarka. Does not say anything on the recipe about skimming oil off finished sauce? Guys/gals-would you skim off? As Approx 4 tablespoons goes in each curry would think some/nearly all should be skimmed off??!

Do you guys ladle all oil off at then end (after tarka) or leave some in?

Chris