Hey Everyone,

My first contribution thread that I felt quite proud of; so I just had to share it! I hope this is the relevant forum to post in, apologies in advance if it's not.

The kids have been asking for curry n rice for their dinner so I threw on the overalls and got to it. Here is the recipe with ingredients and method(s) for the entire thing. Took me 15 minutes.


Just to further note, my 6 year old son and 20 month old girl went through this like a bullet and asked for more so it's certainly something to note for the future

FYI: I used Dipuraja's Curry Base Gravy for the base (prepared the night before)

Cooking Time: 15 Minutes

Rice: 8 Minutes

Rice Method

• 125g Basmati Rice
• 300ml Boiling Water

Pop into a Microwavable dish, wrap with clingfilm and pierce several times, 4 minutes on full power (800w) then 4 minutes on Medium power (500w).

Main Dish: Ingredients

• 2 tbspn Ghee/Oil
• Ginger and Garlic Paste
• 1 tbspn - Dipuraja's Mix Powder
• 1/5th tspn Methi
• 2 heaped tbspn Tomato Puree
• 1 tspon Salt
• 100g tinned tomatoes
• 2 tbspn Lemon Juice
• 1 tbspn Natural Yogurt

Main Dish: Method

• Heat the oil up nice and hot, once sizzling drop in the Garlic and Ginger paste and fry for around 15 seconds
• Put in the Methi and continue to fry for a further 5-10 seconds
• Put in the Tomato Puree and continue to fry for a further 15-20 seconds
• Add Base Gravy
• Put in the Mix Powder and quick-fry for around 20 seconds
• Add some base gravy and bring to the boil, leave to sizzle for a good 10-20 seconds
• Put in the salt and leave it for a good 30-35 seconds
• Add more Base Gravy if you need to at any point
• Add the Tinned Tomatoes, stir in and leave to cook for roughly 20-30 seconds whilst constantly stirring
• Now, add your 1tbspn of Yogurt in the centre and leave it there for about 15 seconds
• Stir around the yoghurt and throw in the Lemon Juice
• Add more base gravy (if needed for quantity and/or prevention of sticking)
• Leave to cook off for a further 2 minutes whilst constantly stirring and you have the desired thickness and you're done!

N.B - The adding of Base Gravy adds to the time to cook to bring it up to the same level as the contents already in the pan (hence why it can extend to 10-15 minutes - even though the above method only looks about half of that)

Hello Everyone.

Good to see a forum I think I can slip right into. By day I'm a software/computer game developer. 28, divorced but with a new girl now (hindsight!) and I love Indian food.

Quote*Cue Long and Probably Boring Intro*

It started when I was young (14?) every Wednesday I used to go to my asian friend's house for tea and his mum used to cook and by god it was beautiful. Ever since the days I started with the pubs/clubs we went to restaurants afterwards and got into curry even more.

Since the age of about 15, always had good curry from one main takeaway here (but always like to try new things) then I got bored of some tasting completely different so I stuck with my main one. We usually eat Curry/Biryani 5-6 days a week. So I started cooking Indian food myself 4 years ago. I was completely unaware of this forum at this point!

Initially I started with the usual paste from Asda etc. but in all honesty, it was terrible and it set me quite back thinking I wouldn't attempt it again. Until one day I thought sod it, I followed a recipe online for a Lamb Biryani and I bought all the spices and what not, awesome! It came out terrible, 2nd attempt was bang on, 3rd attempt was awful, 4th attempt - terrible. Biryani took me a good 12/13 attempts until I finally mastered my own recipe based off a collection of different recipe's I had found.

After this was curry, after the pub one night I went to my fave takeaway for a curry (as you do) and I saw this huge pot he was 'dipping into' and I often wondered how they whipped up curries so fast and I said to my pal, I wonder if it's like a 'base curry' or a 'standard set of ingredients pre-cooked'. So I shot home and Googled it and would you know it yes!

So, since then I have delved into many a recipe and I must say, this site is worth it's weight in Gold. I haven't tried any of the recipe's yet but I think I may post my Biryani one, I'm not fully up to scratch with Curries yet, my first attempt at Base/Madras last week was 95% there, tonight it was 35% so I'm a bit disappointed but I get the gist pretty quick.

I'll try get around to putting my own Lamb Biryani recipe up with instructions but aside of that, I'm looking forward to learning more. Just to put a smile on my face, I ditched the old pan set and purchased some new stainless steel pottery today from our local continental.

Apologies for the long and probably boring intro. Glad to be here