Topic: Saturday night's feast

[SteveAUS]

Far out thats impressive! How many people did you have coming round? I cannot comprehend cooking that much food in one night! Great pics.
Cheers
Steve

[jb]

It was a marathon cook off for sure.I did it in stages over three days so I actually had time to enjoy the food on the night.The look on my guest's faces when it arrived was a picture.One of my neighbours was passing by when I was doing the gravy,he poked his head through my kitchen window enquiring if I was running an Indian Restaurant from home!  It was actually only for four people but I guess I wated to show off my cooking skills,there was plenty left over for the next day.

Many thanks to Curyhell for supplying his North Indian dish recipe,simply wonderful.Also to CBM,I based my jalfrezi on one of his many excellent videos,that naga paste is mind blowing stuff.Blade's tikka is still hard to beat shame he's not around any more.I also added a little bit of cassia bark to my sag aloo(as per Solarspice's suggestion on one of his recipes),it was virtually identical to one made by one of my local takeaways.I followed Ifind4u's method of pre-cooking the potatoes.It uses a considerable amount of oil but the texture in the end was spot on,not only that but the leftover oil smelt like pure BIR.I'm not sure if it was the panch poran that did it but it smelt fantastic.If I had had more leftover oil I would have cooked my curries with some for sure.

The biggest success was naan breads.Apart from the ones I made using some restaurant naan bread dough I would be happy to have had them in a restaurant.The balti garlic chili ones were an inspiration from a local take-away.The peshwari naans were spot on,I used Abdul's filling of condensed milk,coconut and almond powder.I waited until my oven was really hot until I put them in,I think that's where I was going wrong before.The most difficult thing was getting the peshwari naan filling to stay within the naan when rolling it out,again one of CBM's videos came to the rescue.



 

[Peripatetic Phil]

Very VERY  well done, JB. 
Yours in admiration :
** Phil.

[Stephen Lindsay]

awesome jb!

[Malc.]

Hats off to you JB you deserve it.

[Yousef]

That's looks amazing, I am going to try the North Indian Special immediately.

All the best
Stew

[Unclebuck]

must be good even got the boss to post!
well done jb amazeballs!

[Micky Tikka]

 Looks amazing
And welldone in also enjoying the meal so often when having curry guests over
we end up cooking all day and its hard to  appreciate what you've achieved
A good idea to start a couple of days earlier   

[natterjak]

Wonderful stuff JB, deserving of the praise you've received. Which nan recipe do you use?

[chewytikka]

Dedication JB, looks epic.
How much better do you think your cooking has become in the last year!
Especially with your Zaal session.
cheers Chewy