Looking at a packet of green beans rapidly approaching use-by date I remembered a side dish I haven't seen on a menu for years: Prawn Uri. As I recall this was essentially a green bean bhaji with the addition of a few ounces of small prawns/shrimp.

Anyone else remember this?
I've tried the search function but it just throws up every word containing uri, is there a particular syntax you need to use to search for uri as a word?

Cheers,

Rob

Spotted some sauces in Home & Bargain yesterday. These were the ones that have a separate plastic container on the lid, sealed with foil and holding powdered spice mix that is fried with your main ingredient before simmering with the sauce from the jar. There was a long list of spices on the label, plus yoghurt and coriander leaf. The brand was "Indi".

Thinking that perhaps these things have come on in recent years, wanting a quick meal and in the interests of research I bought the rogan josh, (89p!)

Alas, just as expected. Despite all the spicing the only flavour really detectable above the sourness was chili. The only thing on the label that we wouldn't use at home, apart from maize starch which presumably is a thickening agent to compensate for the small amount of onion, was citric acid. I suppose this is a preservative, but what's the point of a preservative that ruins the taste?

Until someone finds a way of slowly caramelising onion cheaply on a commercial scale, and avoiding preservatives that taste bitter our local BIRs will be safe.

Oddly many chinese cook-in sauces produce a perfectly acceptable quick meal, without any of the sourness, wonder why?

Robert

I take it this has not gone unnoticed:

link removed by CA

Site claims that Kris Dhillon has "teamed up with removed"

Just wondered who's behind it, and if it's a disgruntled ex CRO contributer. They do seem to ask for an awfull lot of personal information in order to register, so I didn't bother trying to find out.

Robert

Anyone noticed that this is supposedly "National curry week"? Me neither!

http://www.nationalcurryweek.co.uk/