It smelt really good cooking
Haldi, you?re not wrong on this. coming down to the kitchen this morning was a dream - last nights smell "aroma" was still lingering.
i am going to wait the 3 days before making curry.
have attached pic of blended base - it now looks and tastes very similar to saffron (big fan).
my finished volume was 3.5L (adding back 200ml of water lost during cooking).
i am sceptical of the advantage of putting it in water to cool - i have always liked the idea of it continuing cooking as it cools naturally.