This weekend my girlfriend was away, and so obviously I knocked up a new batch of base. After seeing the result that Darth's 100 Percent Madras achieved in the polls, I thought I'd give it another, more serious shot. This is probably the best decision of my life to date.
The 15 onion base was FAR too large for my needs and so I scaled the base sauce ingredients down by exactly half, other than the green pepper. I should have used 1.5, however as you can see, this particular green pepper is some sort of GM mutant giant capsicumiod, so I decided to stick to just the one. Here are the ingredients.
and my "home made" garlic and ginger paste and sunflower oil :
Although the recipe doesn't say to do this, I always mix up the spices in some sunflower oil before cooking them. I think it helps release their flavour and stops me burning them.
Here are all the ingredients added to my large pot before cooking.
And here it is just before blending (after simmering for one hour). I noted at this point that the base smelt delicious, far better than any others I have made.
Just after blending...
After the recommended 10 minute simmer. This had the froth, the scum, little oil separation and was far too light. I tasted the base and it was lovely. This was not a finished product so I turned the heat down to 1 and left it on.
After scum removal, froth re-stirring and around one hour on the lowest heat, it had darkened and the oil had separated as much as it was going to.
I then followed the Madras recipe, but used 0.5 litres base and 2 chicken breasts rather than 1.5 litres base and 6 - 7 breasts. I scaled down everything by 3. Here it is. The best curry I have made and the best curry I have ever tasted. My two mates who eat a lot of curry and have sampled my ones many times over agree. My votes coming off the Saffron base and joining the Darth massive. This recipe is absolutely brilliant!
Topic: The Madras 100% Clone (of my local BIR) (Read 281244 times)
