Quote from: JerryM on January 18, 2013, 04:35 PM...obviously the chipotle are key ingredient...

Don't know if this info is any good, but all the big supermarkets sell some sort of chipotle paste and the usual online Asian spice shops also sell dried chipotles which can be rehydrated before use.

I admire your tenacity and fortitude in your quest for the best recipes, Jerry! Good hunting!

Not a snowflake to be found anywhere between Glasgow and Stirling, zero degrees C, bright sun and blue skies!

Ah! Don't you just love Bonnie Scotland!

Just another point about cooking chicken from raw at the beginning of the dish. I generally cook the chicken first and then remove it from the pan while the spices and other stuff gets done. I only return it to the pan at the stage that pre-cooked chicken would usually be added to the pan, i.e. round about when the first base gravy gets added in.

I hadn't really considered it before, but once I cooked the chicken from raw and left it in the pan right through the veg and spice stages and I found it had over-cooked and become a little tough.

Now I do what I do when making paella and risotto etc., and that's to remove it until it's ready to go back in towards the end of the cooking time.

Excellent report and the final result looks very nice indeed! Interesting to see that 2 of the 3 test recipes reported so far come from Cory Ander.

Interesting what you say about the chicken turning out to be too dry. I've never experienced that problem with my usual - Abdul Mohed's pre-cooking method - but I was recently swayed by a general recommendation from a forum member (whose views I respect) to try IFFU's pre-cooked chicken. Maybe it was just me, but it turned out to be very dry in the curry. Pity, because I've got another 4 double portions in the freezer!

I haven't tried Blade's Dal to date, but I must give it a shot once I've finished my frozen stock.

Quote from: fried on January 17, 2013, 04:12 PM...The Mrs wanted you to see this photo, so you knew how she suffered...Usual mess...

Like RubyDoo, I enjoyed this photo too. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to see that everyone else has a splatter disaster from time to time as well! I might add that it's me who does the cooking and me who suffers when the splatter needs cleaning up! Ooooh! My hands are red raw lol!

Quote from: Stephen Lindsay on January 15, 2013, 07:30 PM...if anyone wants to give it some boaby treatment.

Kinky!

Thanks for all the comments! I'm really looking forward to all the other reviews now.

Quote from: RubyDoo on January 15, 2013, 08:49 PM...I must say the end result looks great but does seem to have some texture / lumpiness to the sauce. Is that just the photography as I ended up with a really smooth sauce when I did this...

Aye, RD, it was a smooth sauce right enough. I would put the apparent surface texture down to rushed photography and poor lighting.

Quote from: RubyDoo on January 15, 2013, 08:58 PM...if I remember rightly involves the murdering pounder of numerous green cardamon seeds unless you have the powdered version to hand...

Thankfully, my pounding days are over - I have a small packet of the powder.

EDIT: I should also add that I made up about 800ml of CA's base gravy for this dish, even though my freezer is bursting full with Zaal base! Looks like a few more curry nights for me!

RubyDoo set me the task of making Cory Ander

Quote from: Cory Ander on January 15, 2013, 07:39 AM...or any other conditions or complaints...

Doesn't leave much in the way of wriggle room! It'll be interesting to read your tasting notes - assuming you survive the experience lol!

Lucky dogs! Unfortunately, I still can't buy these products in my local ASDAs or by home delivery!