Most of the bases I have made include curry powder in the base but in Taz's base and curries using Taz's base vey llittle curry powder is added. Does this make a significant difference or does the absence improve the flavour?
If you fill any pot 3/4 full what measurement do you use for the spice setc -the amount for the 2 litre version or do you upscale if say you are using a pan somewhere between 2 litres and 18 litres as I do not want to overspice/underspice the base.
Looking through some of my menus from takeaways some describe madras /vindaloo as having a greater use of black pepper. I have not come across any recipes on this site which add black pepper to their curries. Anybody use it?
OK you're coming home from work after a bad day, you have no base sauce and fancy a decent curry and want to put your feet up without any cooking or cleaning up.
Wait 1-2 hours whilst you cook a base sauce and make a curry -dont think so.
Tescos have a range of ready meal curries under the brand Kitchen Express (produced by The indian Kitchen , Wembley). Nearest curries that produce the BIR smell and nicest taste for a ready meal- far better than supermarket own makes and other branded makes. If fact it beat some of our local takeaways. . Recommend the chicken jalfezi and the fish curry. Cost ?2.60 for main meal with veggie starters at ?1.80.
well worth digging out if you fancy a quick curry.
When I made my own garam masala to put in the base sauce as I did not have precise quantites I roughly based it on this (excluding nutmeg) http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-garam-masala as it included the main ingredients that I was told were used. The black cardomann pods were broken and seeds only were used.