Topic: 3 Hour Curry Base

[Ramirez]

Made this yesterday (for the second time) and it really is a nice base. As others have mentioned, it produces a lovely, natural sweetness.

One question though, how long did you cook to get the onions to turn that colour? Obviously this is a '3 hour base' but not sure it that relates to the total time or just the initial cooking of the onions, et cetera. I think I cooked for roughly 3 hours and my onions, although soft, did not turn that colour. Perhaps I was not aggressive enough with the heat.

Made Razor's Rogan Josh with it: http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5950.msg59322#msg59322

[emin-j]

Made this yesterday (for the second time) and it really is a nice base. As others have mentioned, it produces a lovely, natural sweetness.

One question though, how long did you cook to get the onions to turn that colour? Obviously this is a '3 hour base' but not sure it that relates to the total time or just the initial cooking of the onions, et cetera. I think I cooked for roughly 3 hours and my onions, although soft, did not turn that colour. Perhaps I was not aggressive enough with the heat.

Made Razor's Rogan Josh with it: http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5950.msg59322#msg59322

Ramirez , Made this Base for the first time yesterday, cooked all veg for about 1.25 Hours, the Onions did turn colour very slightly but not by much.
I put a pointed knife into the Onions which passed through so I took it that they were cooked through , nice Aroma when cooking compared to some Base's I have made but did find it very thick in consistency even putting enough water in to make it up to almost 5ltrs it is still on the thick side.
Having the family around Tomorrow evening for a big Indian nosh up hopefully I'll do chewy proud with his Base 

[Ramirez]

Thanks emin-j.

Do you think the base tasted sweeter than other bases you've tried?

[Ramirez]

One question though, how long did you cook to get the onions to turn that colour? Obviously this is a '3 hour base' but not sure it that relates to the total time or just the initial cooking of the onions, et cetera. Could you clarify? I think I cooked for roughly 3 hours and my onions, although soft, did not turn that colour. Perhaps I was not aggressive enough with the heat.

Chewy - not sure if you've seen the above question or not. 

[chewytikka]

One question though, how long did you cook to get the onions to turn that colour? Obviously this is a '3 hour base' but not sure it that relates to the total time or just the initial cooking of the onions, et cetera. Could you clarify? I think I cooked for roughly 3 hours and my onions, although soft, did not turn that colour. Perhaps I was not aggressive enough with the heat.

Chewy - not sure if you've seen the above question or not. 

Hi Ramirez
Sorry I missed it. This is a duplicate answer, on Ray's Thread

It took me 3 hours in total, one lazy Saturday afternoon in March.

The first video I did, only took 1hour in total, and was not as sweet.(pressure cook 30mins)
If I want a really sweet base I leave the onions whole (pressure cook 30mins)

The point people may seem to be missing, is that there should be 90% onion in any base recipe.
The more onions the better/sweeter! If your want to mimic what they do in all BIR/TA's I know and probably in your local,
Boill them whole. @100 degrees!

Here's some random poor quality phone snaps
one with the foodmill in action

cheers Chewy

[Graeme]

When i was having a BIR meal with family last week i sure seen one heck of a
onion mountain (whole onions) out of the large pot on the
stove and topped with garlic and ginger, spice mix etc
ready for cooking down.

[madmatt]

Made this base yesterday and it certainly is very good ;D.Created a nice smooth sauce, that I used in CA's Chicken Korma.
For the spices, I used Dipurajas mix powder recipe, and added 1.5 teaspoons of chilli powder.
Looking forward to making a 'Proper' curry(i.e. one with a bit of heat in it! lol)with it.

I intend to make CA's base over the next week, then will use both bases to make identicle curries, and decide which, I believe, is the best.

Here some pics of my efforts.

[madmatt]

More pics

[madmatt]

Last set of pics showing, 1) the completed base, 2 and 3, the Korma(Cory Anders Recipe);D

[Ramirez]

Nice one Matt - good pics. Let us know how you get on with the comparison.