Order me that tee-shirt. It may be years old, but for me this is the closest to BIR I have come across and makes a delicious curry.
The simplest set of ingredients.


First reduction



Final cook


Chicken tikka vindaloo



This is so good, I'm defrosting another portion of base and cooking another tonight.

Robbo

Also back on topic. I'm defrosting some skinless, boneless chicken things overnight, plus a portion of this new (to me) base.  The missis has dinner with daughters tomorrow so that's a curry night for me. Vindaloo begging to be repeated.
This base is an absolute winner for me. Today I typed up the base and vindaloo recipes, printed them and made a neat little laminated card, double-sided, to keep in the pantry.
Yes, I am that serious about this. It's so good.

Robbo

I doubt there's any risk with base as it's just veg. I'm pretty sure I saw someone say they leave a pot of base out at all times.  Mine gets frozen every time. I'll leave the chicken advice to others. When I buy a rotisserie chicken, it's straight in the fridge after cooling.
I'm very cautious with chicken. Unless drawn by Mr. Larson.


Robbo

Yesterday was a good day.  Made chicken tikka on the grill in the morning. And then this base in the afternoon.  Pressure cooked for 20 mins, natural pressure release, added the 'part 2' ingredients then sautéed 5 mins before cooling a little.  No pot of cold water to cool completely, just gave it 10 mins then blended.  No need to top up water as no evaporative loss in Instant Pot.
Made a vindaloo, used 2 tsp extra hot chilli powder and, hands down, the best curry I have ever made. So good, I neglected to take a pic. And ended up waxing lyrical to the missis far too much I'm sure. Seriously, I'm still thinking about the dish this morning.
I made the full batch and am so glad I did.  Got 6 more portions in the freezer.

The ingredient list for the curry itself is so sparse, I wondered what kind of dish would result. Also a bit worried at the amount of turmeric in the mix powder.  But in the end, it was amazing.

Thank you again for bringing this back to life Livo.  I think this is 'the one'.

Robbo

PS: yes I'd heard about the instant pot company filing for bankruptcy.  How on earth does a company with such great products get into such trouble? Very sad.

Thanks for bringing this back to life Livo. I was going to re-do the Chat GPT vindaloo tonight but tone down the heat for me and the missis, but if you regret not trying this old base sooner, that's good enough for me. I will 100% be going the 1 TBSP chilli powder vindaloo route at some point but first instance will cook for me and the missis.
Feeding unused base to his chickens?  I bet that makes for even better curries!

I will be making the base via trusty instant pot pressure cook rather than 1 hour slow cook.
It's brought excellent results on other bases.

Will report back with pic.

Good luck ghoulie. This year we're growing Habanada peppers for the first time.  They're habanero but with zero heat. So you get all the fruit flavor but doesn't kill you. I love habanero but they're hot buggers.  Will report back once harvest starts.
Kashmiri next year if I can find seeds / plants.

Robbo

Hey Livo
Impulse buy. I think the ratio is more like 2:1 in favor of coriander. Need to dump it and put the container to better use as I never use it. Also need to get my lazy backside moving and make a good batch of garam masala. And some base.  And many other things....

Robbo

A spice problem....I'll just leave this here. At least I'm a little organized.


As regards the age, Phil. The only dated thing I can find is from the time Romain was active in the forum.


I'm pretty sure there are a few bags of stuff older though.
It's a healthy obsession, I find.

Robbo

I have the exact opposite need. My pantry has way too many spices! 😊

Robbo

I cooked this AI generated vindaloo last night.  A different method to the usual, making the base in separate pan but it turned out a very nice curry.
Was I transported back to the magical beloved British Indian vindaloo?  No.
But the resulting dish was very tasty and is an option for the times I don't have base in the freezer.  I will definitely repeat this one.

Left an extra portion overnight in the fridge and just had for my elevenses and a definite improvement.

Robbo