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Offline JimZA

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Hello from South Africa
« on: July 01, 2011, 01:23 PM »

Hi,

I'm a ex-pat from the UK. I have been living in South Africa since the end of 2004.

Super weather and scenery on the plus side!

On the minus side is my nearest Indian restaurant is a cool 700km round trip!  :-\

Odd really because South African's love curry but they don't anywhere near a fraction of the Indian restaurants found in the UK.

I have however, nearly perfected my curry skills and turn out quite a mean Vindaloo. My wife says as good as we got in the UK...

Rice is still my problem! Of course I use basmati rice and steam it with two split cardamom pods and one clove per portion and it's OK. But I never get that classic "British Indian Restaurant" flavour...   It's fast becoming the holy grail for me! :)

I used to order "Special Fried Rice" at my local Indian restaurant in the UK and it was such a lovely flavour, I'd eat a spoonful before I even attacked my curry.

Now to search!
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Offline Razor

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Re: Hello from South Africa
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2011, 02:45 PM »
Hi Jim and welcome to cr0.

I'm sure that you will find the perfect rice recipe on here.

Good luck, and happy cooking.

Ray :)
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Re: Hello from South Africa
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2011, 02:47 PM »
Hi Jim

Start reading there is a lot of useful information on this site!!
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Re: Hello from South Africa
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2011, 02:57 PM »
Hi Jim and welcome to cr0

paul
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Re: Hello from South Africa
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2011, 11:11 PM »
I guess at 700km they don't do free delivery either ;D.  Welcome to the site.  You've already cracked your vindaloo, the pilau rice bit is so easy.  Have a read of this thread:

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5779.0

and have a   look at dipuraja's video on youtube -  shortcut here
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4371.0 

DONE  ;D
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