Topic: Curried Aways Lamb/Chicken staff curry

[Adeypayne]

Ader1, There is no harm in reducing the butter, however i would suggest cooking the curry as listed and then skimming off the excess butter and oil at the end. Bob, the PP adds a great extra flavour, by all means leave it out, up to you, but it does make this curry very nice . And i will reiterate, This is a STAFF CURRY, NOT a BIR take away curry! regards, A

[Kashmiri Bob]

Cool. Will give it a whirl Adey. I do know a couple of Bengali chefs who would not even consider adding panch phoran to a staff/trad meat curry. Veg dishes only.  Also, when cooked correctly very little is needed.  2 tsp is a lot. I guess you are using so much as it's for meat.


Rob 

[Adeypayne]

Correct Rob. And we dont use it in every staff curry
The thing i have learned about BIR chefs, is that they are all robots!!! I.e, methods and skills are passed down from teacher to student etc. THAT IS HOW ITS DONE AND THATS IT! They dont accept change or experimentation, one thing Abdul has certainly learned to take on board working along an English chef

[Ader1]

Adey,

Do you have a staff curry you could share which doesn't use Panch Phoran?

[Micky Tikka]

Now Ader1
I think the reply is going to be Yes don't put any in 

[Adeypayne]

Now Ader1
I think the reply is going to be Yes don't put any in 

  well ye there is that! lol, Yes Ader1 I have hundreds! Just need to find time to post them! Regards, A

[Ader1]

Thanks Adey.  It's not that I don't like Panch Phoran, just that I wondered what else you might be able to share.  I've had quite a few staff curries and as I said before, I much prefer them to the BIR curry.

[fried]

I'll be giving this a go for a curry night next weekend ( but making it this weekend), so one silly question.

Since I live outside the U.K I can't get Anchor butter so I'll have to make do with some other brand, but do you use salted or unsalted?

[Peripatetic Phil]

I would assume (but of course I may be wrong) that "butter" generally refers to "salted butter", whilst "unsalted butter" is generally made explicit.  But then I also assume that "milk" generally refers to full-fat milk, and that skimmed or semi-skimmed milk are generally made explicit.

** Phil.

[fried]

Me too, but I've just bought 3 kilos of lamb and wanted to make sure!