Pete

Just wondering if you double the amount of rice, do you do you use double the amount of spices?. Hope you see the post soon mate co I want to try it tonight!!

cheers
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Yes I used the sugar.  I think it needs to be a little sweet and sour. I used the curryking base and it worked nicely.

Just cooking the chicken now...hmmm cant wait!
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Darth Mate

When you say 3 bags of curry sauce is that 3 500ml bags?

Sorry to be thick. It just sounds a lot of sauce.

Cheers

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Mark

Nice job mate. I made this last saturday and it's the best Dansak I've ever knocked up and by far the closest to the real BIR version

So good that I may have to have it again tonight!

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Guys

I'm new around here but I too have been trying for 10 years to get that taste right. Gotta say that the Dansak listed in the recipes is pretty damned close to our local but that slightly burned/spicy smell is still missing.

A while ago I was in our local takeaway and luckily for me their delivery bloke had been bitten by a dog during a delivery so the guy usually behind the counter was out delivering and the chef was running the whole show.

He handed me the bag of food and then said he had forgotten to make the dhansak extra hot so waived me into the kitched while he knocked up some madras hot sauce to stir in when I got home. I watched him ladle some of the base sauce into a pan with a load of oil, lobbed a bloody big spoon of chilly powder in and then shook it around. The oil caught and whole pan was engulfed in flames and smoke and it made me wonder whether that smoke taste/smell is actually the effect of he whole lot bing on fire for a while. Also, the plain steel wock they used was covered in a kind of burned on residue.

I'm not brave enough to try it in the kitchen but I may give it a whirl outside on the gas ring on my barby in the summer!!

Anyway back to deciding what to cook 2night
This is a great site folks - keep it up!
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