I am new curry amateur cook - need advice form proffesionals

[livo]

The recipes can easily be made omitting the oils and colours or varied in other ways, as to better suite any individuals personal preference. 

This would cover reducing oils.

[DalPuri]

The recipes can easily be made omitting the oils...

Can they?

Knowing how significant oil is in the BIR process?

I made a third quantity of JB's base last night and noticed there's not much oil in that. 180ml in 6-7lts of finished gravy.
But, who knows if the chef was being conservative for demonstration purposes? Intentionally or not.

[Naga]

I made a third quantity of JB's base last night and noticed there's not much oil in that. 180ml in 6-7lts of finished gravy.
But, who knows if the chef was being conservative for demonstration purposes? Intentionally or not.

Just out of interest, JB's Base contains only 37 kcals/100g. It's a decent base and not too bad for the waistline either!

[Peripatetic Phil]

Just out of interest, JB's Base contains only 37 kcals/100g. It's a decent base and not too bad for the waistline either!

I'm sure this is a well-intentioned and well-motivated contribution, but the day that I start concerning myself with the calorific content of anything I eat will be the day I give up cooking, and probably the day I give up eating as well.

** Phil (6' tall, 11 stone 10 pounds, 68 years of age, cooks in dripping and lard, and has never counted a calorie in his life).

[Secret Santa]

** Phil (6' tall, 11 stone 10 pounds, 68 years of age, cooks in dripping and lard, and has never counted a calorie in his life).

You must be one of those lucky sods who's naturally gifted with a high metabolic rate Phil. Otherwise you'd be as lard-arsed as the rest of the British population now seems to be (in their ever increasing desire to be as American as possible). 

[Peripatetic Phil]

You must be one of those lucky sods who's naturally gifted with a high metabolic rate Phil. Otherwise you'd be as lard-arsed as the rest of the British population now seems to be (in their ever increasing desire to be as American as possible). 

I have to say, during a three-day visit to the West Country and South Wales at the end of last week, I was more than a little surprised to note the relatively large number of "persons of size", compared to the virtually non-existent presence of the same when I used to visit there in my youth.  And not all were within easy travelling distance of Lidl or Aldi, either ...

As to metabolism, I must confess that my weekly 700 grammes of Galaxy doesn't seem to cause any real problems ...

** Phil.