Hello all.

My curries seem to be very dark in colour. I use CA's base recipe and I follow main dish recipes to the letter on here. My base isn't dark at all. The colour seems to change when I add the tomato puree after frying the spices, it immediatley goes very dark. It doesn't taste burnt, in fact it tastes pretty good but I'd really like to have the colour that a lot of the pics on here show, and of course from the takeaway!

Any advice would be great!

Hi. I have been using the recipes on this site for a while now and have made some ok dishes. One problem I always have when making a batch of base sauce is that I can never get it smooth. I have gone through 3 hand blenders by burning them out! Last night I even boiled the onion mixture for 5 hours to make absolutely sure that the ingredients were completely soft. This morning I spent half an hour trying to belnd it until smooth and burned out another blender . . and I still have lumpy sauce!! Has anyone else had this problem?

Does anyone know a good Sylheti recipe or is there a Sylheti recipe on here at all?