Topic: Ex hot chicken phal

[Kashmiri Bob]

The phal looks great but don't you use tomato paste?  TA's use a cs and a half per portion.  A phal is a very tomato based curry....and chilli of course.  Generally a phall contains 3 times as much chill as a vindaloo and 6 times that of a madras

Erm, yes, do use quite a bit of tomato paste.  To be honest I think a madras, a vinders, and a phal are meant to be completely different dishes, irrespective of the amount of chilli powder included.  There does, however, seem to be quite a lot of regional variation.  I think my phal efforts qualify as an authentic Ex-hot variety, typical faire of some high quality establishments, oop North, for example. 

Rob