I think this website has been seen before by quite a few. I don't think it is very well regarded. I've not tried anything off there, mind.

Hi
Often wondered who gave the recipe to natco?
Regards

Leaving the question of authorship [1] to one side, there is something I don't understand in the recipe as found at Natco.  It includes (among others) the following stages --

> Add oil and heat.
> Add basic sauce (along with fresh chicken/other meats if using them)
> Add all of the spices and salt

> Although the curry is now cooked, further frying is now required
> and this must be done in individual portions.

> 1. Add some oil to your 'individual curry' pan.
> 3. Then add the required amount of sauce and meat/cooked vegetables
> for one portion

So you've added the chicken (say) early on, immediately after "Add oil and heat.  Add basic sauce", yet you are then told that "further frying is now required" and at the frying stage "add ... sauce ... and meat" (i.e., chicken).

So in fact you have added the chicken twice : once when making the basic sauce, and once at the frying stage.

Am I completely mad, or is there a real inconsistency ?

[1] Or has it, in fact,  been stolen and cocked up in the process ?  As Chriswg observed at https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4813.msg45748#msg45748, the Natco recipe is remarkably similar to the "Not Delia" one : http://www.notdelia.co.uk/british-indian-restaurant-curry-introduction/

Quote from: Phil (Chaa006) on October 25, 2010, 08:46 PMLeaving the question of authorship [1] to one side, there is something I don't understand in the recipe as found at Natco. 

It always seemed clear to me, unlike some of the recipes here!

First he pre-cooks raw chicken and the base sauce, plus 'bread dough paste'.

Then he prepares curries in individual proportions. Simple!