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The discussion centers around the curry base from the website www.heathc.dircon.co.uk, with users expressing mixed opinions. Some find the recipes overly complicated and not as effective as others, while others note that the use of ingredients like radishes and whole spices is reminiscent of Pat Chapman's style. Overall, several users suggest that there are better alternatives available for making curry bases at home.

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Offline das63

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« on: January 13, 2006, 09:46 AM »
hi has anyone checked out www.heathc. dircon.co.uk and if so how do u rate the curry base
? ? ? ? ? ? ?thanks deb
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Offline Curry King

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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2006, 09:53 AM »
Hi,

Your link doesn't work.

Cheers
cK
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2006, 10:06 AM »
Quote from: Curry King on January 13, 2006, 09:53 AM
Hi,

Your link doesn't work.

Cheers
cK
sorry the link is www.heathc.dircon.co.uk
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Offline Curry King

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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2006, 10:30 AM »
Hi das63,

The site you provided has this quote:

"I freely admit that I owe a lot of the ideas for the recipes from Pat Chapman"

This probably means the recipes are over complicated and require 40Min's in the oven? ;D

Seriously though having looked through it, it does seem very Pat Chapman, loads of whole spices etc.. The gravy does seem a bit different, 1 onion, some garlic, radishes and carrots with not a lot else except whole spices, very odd especially no tomato of any description.  I've never tried anything like that before.
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Offline raygraham

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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2006, 01:17 PM »
Hi All,

My first thought was Bruce Edwards, he uses Carrots and Radish but do agree there are a load of whole spices there like Pat Chapman uses.

Has anyone made this yet?

Ray
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Offline George

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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2006, 02:18 PM »
Maybe I'm a bit 'old school' but I find it hard to respect anyone who writes: "if you can't be bothered, then just sod off and buy a crappy jar from the supermarket." Where is the advantage or need for such language? I hope Tony Blair succeeds with his 'respect' agenda

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« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2006, 03:47 AM »
I tried this sauce as one of my very first curry bases way back in 2004, it is not worth doing there are better available.
However that was the first website i found which started me on this road of trying to re-create takeaway curries at home.

The other website i tried next was this

www.thespiceoflife.co.uk

I purchased this curry sauce
http://www.thespiceoflife.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=EP%2DCURS&cat=43 which also uses milk in it, needless to say its not restaurant style.

S

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Offline CurryCanuck

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« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2006, 05:16 AM »
I agree Stew - I tried a few curries from this website and found them to be more traditional than BIR . The vindaloo and rogan gosh were pleasantly passable as a traditional curry but fell well short of " the taste " .

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« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2006, 07:27 PM »
If you substitute the radishes in this recipe for Mooli (white radish) and add 50g of celeriac.
Also substitute the teaspoon of cumin for one of fennel. It is the Pat Chapman recipe for what he calls Special Balti base sauce from his 'Balti Curry Cookbook'

I have used this quite a lot in the past and it is OK but nowhere near as good as  the bases I have used from this site.

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