I might try a Mars bar Vindaloo and M&Ms naan bread as a pudding?

Definitely and it really improves the texture and colour of the chicken. I've been precooking my chicken in a half base, half water concoction and it really does something for the chicken you put in the curry.

The nearest I've got with lamb is to roast a leg, have a roast dinner and then use the remainder for curry. I've never had much success in precooking lamb any other way.

I tried CA's method of simply simmering chicken in water (the chicken was lovely and tender but it didn't have the colour I was after, too pale).

In Oz all the restaurants fry the chicken before they add the curry ingredients and you can really tell, the ensuing meat seems tough and dry.  I miss my local BIR...

I've never found whole spices in a curry in God's country (Merseyside). Like you said it must be a regional thing.

I cooked this today. The naans are great.

I cooked them in my sandwich toaster..

http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/29/sandwich-toaster-deals-amazon-uk/

They turned out great, I'm sold on using the sandwich toaster for naans now. I mixed chopped garlic, butter and coriander and smeared the top with the mix before I toasted them, they were ruddy delicious.

Jeez Solarspace, you must've used pickling onions with mine, there should be loads more onion than that...

PaulP and Chaa006

Yep, Tassie is a lovely place. I never knew about the Quenstown thing, most of the tales here are about a ship that ploughed through the Tasman bridge, killing lots of people. Mind you the way they drive here I am surprised anyone is alive. The roads are like the Circus Maximus.

G'day!

We moved to Tassie 18 months ago. Great site for curry this though.

3 months!!! 

Christened me new pan today with a lamb balti (phall strength). Bootiful. CA's base and mix powder and dipuraja1's method (Pataks balti paste included).



Curry cooking in new aluminium pan...



Toilet roll in fridge, cold can of beer ready and here we go...

I don't like text speak, George is right, it often doesn't reduce the character count but I think we need to be a little more accepting of the way people are trying to communicate ideas here.
We are a group of people that don't know each other, we are joined by a love of curry; remember that when you post.