Topic: Balti garlic chilli chicken dopiaza vs Influenza

[Kashmiri Bob]

Couple of pics of yesterdays toiling.

Deep-fried ready-made Zam Zam lamb samosas ready for reheating.  I stick one whole clove in each before popping them in the oven. Old school. Served with home-made Bengali pineapple chutney and a commercial plum effort.





Zam Zam are OK, but Humza samosas are vastly superior.  The pineapple chutney is awesome.  Monster chilli kick to give Naga Raja a run for its money.  The plum chutney was truly, grim.


Balti garlic chilli chicken dopiaza


Ready to warm up.  Made with 6 cloves of garlic, 4 fresh chillies, 1 tbsp of chilli powder, 1 tsp of Mr. Naga, and 1 tsp of Janu's hot garlic chutney.




 
Complete main course


Balti garlic chilli chicken dopiaza, served with saffron and black cumin rice, and garlic naan.





Not bad overall when the man-flu is factored in.  Very nice food.  Obviously not up to my usual standards appearance wise.  Even the chilli flowers wilted on me, but that's due to them being soaked in ice-cold vodka, instead of water.  There wasn't actually any saffron in the rice.  The colour is down to turmeric and butter ghee, but saffron sounds much better.  Would have been really nice rice had I remembered to add some salt.  The garlic naan was Khyber Pass. Top notch.

Rob 

[Peripatetic Phil]

Obviously not up to my usual standards appearance wise.

If that's "not up to (your) usual standards", Rob, I would assume that you could teach Leith's and Cordon Bleu how to present on a good day

** Phil.

[Naga]

I don't know if the meal improved your cold any, Rob, but it looks a mighty spread of delicious scoff!

[chewytikka]

Lol,  ;D Your not supposed to have an appetite when you've got the flu Rob

Anyhoo, all looks yum  and what is the Balti element to the dish?

What's in the Zam Zam and Humza Samozas?

How cheap are the Naans on Ladypool Road?

cheers Chewy

[Stephen Lindsay]

Great pics Rob and worthy of a doze of man flu. I hope you were able to garner extreme sympathy and tlc on your road to recovery.

[Kashmiri Bob]

Lol,  ;D Your not supposed to have an appetite when you've got the flu Rob

Anyhoo, all looks yum  and what is the Balti element to the dish?

What's in the Zam Zam and Humza Samozas?

How cheap are the Naans on Ladypool Road?

cheers Chewy

Feeling a bit better now after consuming a whole pineapple's worth of chilli garlic chutney. Must be all the vitamin C.  Thanks for the well wishes everyone. 

The balti magic was certainly there but not sitting in the base sauce properly.  I've got my thinking cap on.

Must check the difference beween Zam Zam and Humza ingredients/spicing. There's is a lot more lamb in the Humza samozas

I think naans cost

[goncalo]

Great looking dish there fella, your usual standard!

It puts my my tex-mex fajitas to shame.  :