It looked like this bad boy. I used spiced chilli oil from Aldi and now I've looked I only had hot curry powder in which I used for the mix. I will lob the powder mix out that I made and start again with more attention to detail. I'm sure it's not the recipe Chewy, it was my artistic license with the scaling up. I may also have kicked the arse out of the chilli powder...
Nevermind, a lesson was learned here. I've got enough base in the freezer for another 18 goes......

Mebbe,

I did dilute the puree, but only 50/50. Will do exact measures next time.

I used kashmiri chilli powder. I think the problem was the scaling up and the fact I used chilli infused oil too. I love a really really hot curry, but this came out very rich and tasted weird.

Think I read somewhere you were out near sunny Hull, I'm not too far away in pocklington.

Well I will put that down as a partial success...... I made JB's base and then followed Chewytikka's madras recipe, but scaled up the proportions slightly.
The end result was hotter than satans hoop. I think that I may have added too much powder........
Better luck next time I think......

I live local to a Rafi's spicebox store. I've tried quite a few of the mixtures over the past few years and whilst they are nice, I wouldn't really say that they are a shortcut to BIR food. As with many paste based methods, I find that there is always a similar taste lurking in the background no matter what the curry you are making.

Pretty much both as one is linked to the other.....

Hi folks,

I stumbled across this site looking for how to make mint dip on Thursday and had jumped into making JB's curry base by Friday night. I'm hoping that I can at least partially achieve that much sought after taste at home by mining the wealth of experience that you guys have deposited on here.
Failing that, I'm gonna drive down the road to Masdrasandy's house to try and steal his curry.

Hello curryfans,

Fell across this forum by accident and I'm so glad I did. Just on the final boil of this base and it smells totally fantastic. Cheers JB