Topic: How do you get the best out of Bassar

[Secret Santa]

• Stuck in my boiled chicken thigh fillets and wallah (great value - every bit as good as breast for curries IMHO - this was my first time using them but will never look back)

Bobby, thighs are about as close as you can now get to real old style chicken taste , before we got these antibiotic and growth hormone injected Frankenstein monstrosites that we now call chicken. The taste of today's chicken is insipid at best compared to 'real' chicken.

Christ Bobby, you've given me something else to whine about!   :-[

[Bobby Bhuna]

Christ Bobby, you've given me something else to whine about!   :-[

I know the answer to all your problems - the curries, the riches, the chicken...

Time machine ;D

[Bobby Bhuna]

Did it again. Swear by it!

[joshallen2k]

Very interesting read.

I will try the bassar in a Vindaloo for myself.

Bobby - when you say it was excellent, was it just a "good curry by your standards" or something that you felt closed the 5% gap in any way. The "walk past the BIR" comment is encouraging.

-- Josh

[adriandavidb]

Having read this thread yesterday, I went out and bought another bag of King of Spices Kasmiri Basaar!

[Bobby Bhuna]

Bobby - when you say it was excellent, was it just a "good curry by your standards" or something that you felt closed the 5% gap in any way.

I would say that it has put my recents curries closer to good BIR curries, although it's not 5 percent that I'm off by, compared to really good BIRs. It's nearer 50.

[commis]

Hello

The King of Spice recipe for yoghurt gravy is I'm led to think the 70's style simple curry which were served with chapatis in Birmingham. I've had this in Hong Kong from a Kasmiri curry vender and it's very nice. Think I'll nock up some and see what my mate thinks? May be this is the grandad!!

Commis

[Bobby Bhuna]

Not if it has yoghurt in it buddy!

[kid curry]

Bobby.

Do you think it only works in your final madras, when its mixed with BE mix?

And would you use it in your base!

[Bobby Bhuna]

Bobby.

Do you think it only works in your final madras, when its mixed with BE mix?

And would you use it in your base!

I've tried it on it's own and it's not sufficient, although I'm sure it would compliment other spice mixes. I suppose you could use it in a base, but I think it's a bit too hot for that really. I don't think it would go in every curry either. Who knows though, give it a shot.