Topic: The best Lamb Madras I have ever made........

[976bar]

This lamb just fell apart as it entered my mouth......

I made a Lamb Madras yesterday using Cory's recipe, what's new to that you all say.... but about 2 years ago I bought a Kenwood Curry cooker. Basically it's a slow cooker that you would normally use for anything really, I guess Kenwood just wasn't selling enough slow cookers and decided to call it a curry cooker, and threw in a recipe booklet containing every Patak's paste going.

I've tried cooking lamb before, but never with great results. Its always been a bit chewy and hard. So I decided to try the "Curry Cooker".

I put oil in a pan as normal and browned the lamb pieces then set aside, then added the garlic and ginger paste, then the spices and fresh chopped chillies and the tomato puree, then 100ml of curry base. I let it cook through for a minute or so.

I then transferred everything to the "Curry Cooker" added another 200ml of curry base and some lemon juice.

I cooked this dish for around 4-5 hours on the lowest setting possible, turning occasionally. The aroma was amazing.....

The whole dish took on a new dimension for me, and became really hot compared to the normal Madras I make using the pan and high heat method.

I've often gone for a paper on a Saturday morning in the parade of shops where the local BIR is, and around 11 o'clock the smell coming from that BIR is enough to hypnotise you. The smell coming from that cooker wasn't far from that at all.

I let it all cool and put it in the fridge and plated it up tonight for dinner. The lamb just fell apart in my mouth, the texture was a rich thick sauce and the taste was out of this world.

Now normally, a madras is slightly runny, orangy in colour. But that is what I have gotten used to over these past few years instead of the thick rich sauces of the curries I was introduced to back in the 70's.

My favourite dish has always been the Lamb Bhuna, but I have never ever been able to reproduce that thick rich sauce that a Bhuna has.

I now think that good BIR's don't just whisk curries up in a hurry to suit the numbers coming in through the door, but GOOD curry houses actually spend quite a bit of time in the background producing excellent rich sauces which they add fresh ingredients to for the final curry.

I know one thing, my next dish will be the Lamb Bhuna done this way and I'll let you all know how it came out..........

Here's a couple of pictures of that final Lamb Madras I had for dinner tonight

[Razor]

mmm, looks very tasty indeed, and now, I'm off to make a madras, so, thanks for that 976

Ray

[gazman1976]

if i am going to use lamb i always cook it in my slow cooker so its very tender but i wouldnt cook my curry in it ....

[976bar]

if i am going to use lamb i always cook it in my slow cooker so its very tender but i wouldnt cook my curry in it ....

Try it!!

[PaulP]

Looks good 976bar, I'll have to get a slow cooker. I love lamb curries when the meat is both lean and tender.

Paul.

[Bobby Bhuna]

Looks and sounds amazing. I have to try this! I find when I cook my lamb with the sauce it's really lamby tasting, which I love. I think your method sounds like it will make an amazing curry, probably not what I'm used to from a BIR but still amazing. It's really got me thinking!  ;D Great post!

[Stephen Lindsay]

I made a batch of Ashoka base about 4 months ago using a slow cooker and it was excellent. Given that a slow cooker is designed for casseroles then it would work wonders on a lamb curry and your looks yummy 976.

I can almost smell it from the picture.

[976bar]

Looks and sounds amazing. I have to try this! I find when I cook my lamb with the sauce it's really lamby tasting, which I love. I think your method sounds like it will make an amazing curry, probably not what I'm used to from a BIR but still amazing. It's really got me thinking!  ;D Great post!

Hi Bobby,

Actually at first it didn't taste too lamby, so I cheated a bit and added a quarter of a Knorr lamb stock cube.

I know the method isn't probably BIR, but it did taste a lot like the dishes I used to get in BIR's back in the 70's and early 80's when you used to get that thick rich sauce with almost any curry

[Vindaloo-crazy]

I always use leftover raost leg of lamb for my curries, works out really well.