Blimey GOTG

What a curry mission. Great looking curry in those photos 

I love the Kushi book, base, spice mix and recipes too. Just realised that I have not made them in ages - thank you for reminding me! - must make up a batch when the current freezer load of Zaal is depleted.

This book still deserves a lot of attention IMHO - and for some reason does not seem to get all the praise I think it deserves...

Regards

Hi

Full credit to Axe / Malc for these calculations:

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So to business, the calorie figures for the Zaal base as per your recent topic are as follows:

Total quantity       Kcal - 3510.075
Per portion (16)    Kcal - 219.3797

So a single portion (350ml) is 220 Kcal give or take.

I haven't calculated any dishes against this yet but as a basic curry we're looking at:

45ml (1 chef spoon) Veg Oil - 405
15ml Garlic & Ginger - 12
100ml (heaped chef) pre cooked onion & pepper - 164
30ml Spice Mix - 70
30 Tomato Puree - 5
350ml Base - 220
200g Portion precook chicken - 342

Total calories = 1218 Kcal

A bit of an eye opener wouldn't you say!

Cheers

Hi gagomes

Hope Dave won't mind too much me answering on his behalf:

FYI, the assistant is actually the main head chef at Zaal. Az mainly does front of house these days and usually only cooks when the restaurant is uber busy.

As far as I recall the cost was 60 pounds for the session. For that we received around 4 hours really intensive tutoring and then sat down for a late lunch and sampled all the food we cooked plus a couple of extra masalas that Az cooked.

Do I consider it good value for money and time well spent? - would I go again next week if there was another session? - too flipping right mate - in the drop of a hat!

Look around - you will struggle to get guitar lessons for less than 15 pounds an hour! someone offers you a deal like that go for it!

Training in anything is not cheap these days. Just finished a SQL Server performance tuning course for work - that was 2 thousand pounds for a weeks course! something like 70 pounds an hour! time is money

Cheers

Hi h4ppy-chris

Splendid video - thanks for posting!

Very enjoyable watch indeed. Sam really gives it some 'welly' on those burners  and seems like a very helpful chap indeed.

I was a little sceptical initially regarding the book idea - but I must confess now to being rather excited about it and will almost certainly be buying a copy.

Good luck and looking forward to the finished product.

Regards

Hi meggeth

It depends upon your cooking style too!

Please use your favourite search engine for research on this subject - however it is believed there is the chance some of the properties of olive oil can turn carcinogenic under high heat.

Because I like to give it some 'welly' on the gas when I cook curry - I personally steer clear of olive oil for this purpose as it always starts smoking and I worry about the possible implications

Cheers

Hi

Leaving veg ghee out of the equation...

I personally use Sunflower oil and all my curry's are splendid - Sunflower oil IMHO is a very reasonable decision.

Thanks

Hi

The only possible drawback that I can initially think of is the diameter of the top section.

The site suggests a diameter of around 41 cm for the larger part. This in turn suggests that the top section will be possible too small to cook naans with - possibly constraining your project just to skewer based cooking.

This may not be a show stopper for you - but worth consideration?

Cheers

Hi Stew

Great review and pictures. The final curry looks delicious.

Very pleased to see from the website that their paste's are gluten free too!

No additives, preservatives, colour or sugar, and dairy and gluten free. Ensuring 100% pure, uninhibited flavour.

Will definitely give this a try!

Regards

Hi

Lovely looking curry Steve!

Why oh why is there no smell-taste-O-vision on the internet yet

Cheers

Hi Abdul

Good to hear from you!

Just wondering if there are any plans to do the 2nd book this year?

All the best!