Hi Folks,
Well, I never made comment about Darth's recipes before as after I made it I felt there were a few folk a little "sceptical" of the 99.9% claim and that my comments might be disregarded.
However, the interest in Darth's recipes seems to have escalated recently and he has now revised it and made it easier to follow so it is perhaps now time for me to add my comments.
A couple of months ago I made the base faithfully from the recipe posted but found I had made a mistake interpreting the amounts and so ended up with a base rather thick, concentrated and very spicy.
Following a few frantic e-mails and some advice from the "Dark Lord" I was then able to produce the results Darth has consistently made for some time. I think he realised himself the instructions were not as clear as they could have been but he seems to have rectified this in the recently posted ammendments.
So, to give my comments on what I made..............................fabulous!!
Very authentic and much like the BIR taste I want to achieve.
The photo speaks for itself in the look of the dish he achieves ( including authentic steam!) and there are a number of BIR's near me who's dishes would not look any different side by side.
But photo's don't tell us much about taste. For me the taste was very, very close to what I have wanted to achieve and I once again made a curry this weekend from some of the original base I had frozen. It was even better than the first time around so would recommend anyone tries it at least once to see for themselves.
I made one dish with reclaimed oil and one without.
For me the dish with the oil was ahead on taste and more the authentic BIR but I know Darth thinks on more healthy lines ( after all he needs to be fit enough to conquer the universe and not have a day off sick on his Death Star!).
Darth lives in a quiet, small community in the West Country so has few take-aways and restaurants to guage his results from but I think he has done a damn good job with his 99.9% clone.
With all respect for the 99.9% claim he does have a near perfect curry and from what I have made he should be proud of his efforts. If it were my recipe I would not put such a high success to it ( although I would give it top nineties! ) as I feel he leaves himself with no margins for improvement even where there may still be some to be made. On the other hand I can understand why he gives it such high rating, he has a remarkably good product and that's a fact.
I shall certainly make this recipe again, I have yet to do his rice, but would say to one and all "give it a go" and see for yourselves, it's well worth the effort!
Ray
Topic: 99.9% Vindaloo/Tindaloo Clone (revised) (Read 42283 times)
