Its coming. Its coming.
Edit - ok so here it is.
This task was set for me by the Curry Master himself, Monsieur Chewy Tikka of the northern territories. I was invited to attempt his own take on a 2 pan Rogan Josh. Now this was absolutely ideal for me as I had been meaning to do a RJ for sometime but never got around to it. My first hurdle was that this recipe did not appear anywhere on CRO so CT was set the task of documenting this for our enjoyment. What did he do instead? Made a full video and ate about a dozen portions himself in as many days to make sure it was right. Bless him ( and his stomach !! )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms2dqvaNCRU ( am I allowed to post the link CT? If not then let me know. )
Armed with information from aforementioned video I set about my task. I must apologise at this stage for the lack of 'porn' , well at least at the various stages. Daughter has purloined my camera and phones are a pain. You therefore only have a pic of the final dish and that, to be fair, is not great. Dark meat in a dark sauce does not lend itself to pic of the year!!
Onward, the dish itself was straight forward to make. I went with mutton having just acquired and pre-cooked a nice batch from Smithfield Market. I used C2G base ( tweaked to my liking ). Further, I had actually run out of white onion ( unusual in this house ) so red onion and green pepper were used as the veg. Other than that , all to spec I think.
I won't blather on about actually making it other than to comment on the use of the chilli and coriander mix which I have not used before and thought it added a depth of freshness to the final dish. Nice one, will use again.
So without further ado, to my verdict / comment. The first pan was gorgeous. Rich, with a bite and the freshness previously mentioned. The mutton added to the richness and the odd piece of veg also came through. Suitably dark in colour which, imho, a RJ should be. Now comes the 'crunch' and whilst I question, who am I to take on the big man,
I was really left puzzled about the purpose of the second pan part of this dish. I am not a massive lover of lumps of veg mixed in with my main course meat or chicken dish but found the veg in the first pan was spot on and blended really well with the flavours etc. The second dish left me cold and wondering , why go to the effort. Ok. perhaps it is / was me so - I cooked the bl**dy thing again.
Nope, still cannot understand the reason for the second pan and I actually think it is detrimental to what was produced in the first pan. Sorry CT - really tried with this but it is the one pan jobbie for me in future and, very nice it is too.
To conclude may I raise a question for those of you out there? What actually makes a Rogan Josh ( or however you want to spell it ) a Rogan Josh? What defines it? What separates it from the rest? I am not actually sure as it is one of those dishes that varies so much from place to place, more so than some of the others.
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