Topic: Bhuna vs. Jalfrezi?

[Secret Santa]

Jalfrezis as I know them have to be cooked using peas and beaten egg

Holy ****!

Is nothing sacred?

Why not just bung a couple of bangers and some fried bread into it as well and call it the "all day curry".

Seriously, whatever that monstrosity is, it ain't no jalfrezi.

[Domi]

lol It is if you're in Yorkshire

Which leads me back to a point I've brought up before (I think it was in the North/South curry divide debate) which is that we're all looking for different versions of a certain named curry. A pathia needs mango chutney, jalfrezi needs egg etc etc to be what I'd term as authentic BIR since that's how jalfrezis and pathias are made in BIRs here. You could walk a whole street in Bradford and order the same curry from each and no two curries will look or taste exactly the same.

I look for curries which suit my tastes and that of those around me. I noticed in another thread that curry meets are in the pipeline, I hope they take off because it would be interesting for a whole group to turn up and try the same menu cooked by the same chefs - I think it would set up some lively debates and give a more balanced view for the restaurant reviews sections.

Like I've said before SS, you can't knock it 'til you've tried it luv

[Secret Santa]

Like I've said before SS, you can't knock it 'til you've tried it luv

I was only joking, I've got nothing against eggs in curry. I was deadly serious about eggs not being in a jalfrezi though. Can't you ask them to rename it to a jalfreggsi or something so as not to offend us purists?

I bet you just "must" have pineapple chunks in your Dhansak too, eh?

Mango chutney in pathia, no problem with that at all. Me I use white wine vinegar, sugar and pineapple juice, but as far as I'm concerned any sweet and sour igredient combination is "authentic" BIR.

[Domi]

hehe I don't like lentils so I've always given dhansaks the swerve

but I have had madras with spring onions and what looked like swede in it :-X rather I should say I once was served madras with spring onions and what looked like swede in it.....I never got past a taste of the sauce go figure!

I guess we'll have to all get fired up about what makes a perfect curry, whatever the name If I had sleeves I'd be rolling 'em up and getting set for a long drawn out war lol ;D

[Unclebuck]

Why not just bung a couple of bangers and some fried bread into it as well and call it the "all day curry".
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PMSL

now thats a curry i want to try! 

[Domi]

Don't laugh UB! You'll only encourage him ;D

Didn't some daft bloke actually make bacon and egg korma amongst other full-English based dishes on Come Dine With Me?

[Cory Ander]

If you can't get it you can substitute palm sugar

Jaggery is palm sugar isn't it?

[Jethro]

If you can't get it you can substitute palm sugar

Jaggery is palm sugar isn't it?

Can be cane or palm sugar apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggery

News to me too, I thought it was just palm sugar

[Secret Santa]

Either way the two have different flavours but are close enough to be interchangable.