OK. I ended up with 4.95L of base using this recipe. Do the rest of you get around this too?

Cheers

Knocking up this base at the minute for the second time. Love it!

OK. Have cooked this 4 times now. If you haven't tried it yet, you haven't lived!

DO IT!!

Cheers Stephen. I suppose I just liked the idea of me showing off in the kitchen with sizzling Balti dishes on flaming rings etc 

I read a recipe on this site and the directions said to put a little oil and garlic into a balti dish and fry for a min before adding the cooked curry. This is what got me interested. Not sure what the link is now though.

Cheers Stephen!

Thanks for all the advice folks. Should be cooking it this weekend. ;D

Quote from: Stephen Lindsay on February 22, 2010, 10:44 PM
Floyd

I'm not sure if this will help you or not but I am looking at one of my cookery books called Shezad Husain's Easy Indian Cookery. It is said to feature Balti and Haandi Recipes with Haandi referring to the cooking pot which I can best describe as a wide urn shaped clay pot with handles on the sides.

I would guess that your chicken dish might not be cooked in such a pot but you are looking to replicate that recipe.

There are several chicken dishes in this book:

• Haandi Chicken with Pineapple Chunks
• Mughlai Haandi Chicken in a Rich Sauce
• Haandi Chicken cooked in Green Spices and Herbs
• Haandi Chicken with Leeks
• Haandi Chicken with French Beans
• Haandi Chicken with Whole Fried Onions
• Haandi Chilli Spiced Chicken

I will happily reproduce them here if you think anything sounds close.

Hi, thanks for the info! I reckon the Chilli Spiced Chicken looks good. Is it similar to the description on the website?

Cheers

Quote from: Razor on February 22, 2010, 10:36 PM
Hi Floyd,

Sorry mate, never heard of Handi dishes but, I'm going down the mile Saturday night.  I'll do some fishin for ya

Is there anything similar that you could compare it to?

Ray

P.S,

Are you a fellow manc by any chance ;D

Hey Razor. No, I studied up there but have since moved to Brighton which is my girl's hometown. If you could scope anything out, that would be great! I don't know if there is anything I could compare it to... it's been a while!

Hey folks,

My girlfriend and I discovered our love of curries at this restaurant back in 2003:

http://darbarrusholme.co.uk/index.html

We used to order the Chicken Handi (http://darbarrusholme.co.uk/menu.html#chefspecial) and I've never been able to get it anywhere else. As you can see, the description is quite vague:

Fresh breast pieces of young chicken, cooked in fresh ginger garlic and coriander and served in a clay pot, in a traditional way.

I remember it had finger chilis in it for definite.

Please give me some advice as to where I can start with this. It would be amazing to cook it for her. I'm currently using the SnS base.

Many thanks in advance

From a very hopeful Floyd