Topic: Garam Massala from the Zaal,Fleet

[goncalo]

Has anyone ever converted this into grams?

Also, does it need to go into the oven for 8 hours? sounds like an awful lot of time to me. The girls at the "show me the curry" have a video where they do it in deep-bottomed pan using low-to-medium heat until the coriander seeds change color (brown, presumably?) and then cool them off, remove husks, etc.

[curryhell]

It's nothing to do with roasting the spices, essential oils etc etc.  It is purely to dry the spices out and make them easy to grind. Az put them in the plate warmer the night before we arrived to dry them out. So  a cold oven for six hours should do the job.  Have a look at one of the latest videos from C2G where he says the same thing about the reason for "roasting" them